Announcement: International Symposium: Drafting a Constitution in the 21st Century: Lessons from Chile

On 9 and 10 October 2024, the University of Bordeaux (Victoire Campus, Gintrac Lecture Theatre) will host the international symposium ‘Drafting a Constitution in the Twenty-First Century – Lessons from Chile’, organised by Hubert Alcaraz, Carolina Cerda-Guzman, Rym Fassi-Fihri, Maxime Millon and Yaodia Senou-Dumartin.

Between 2019 and 2023, Chile underwent an innovative constitutional process. While traditionally the people are rarely involved in the process of drafting a constitution, Chile chose to include them closely through mechanisms such as joint constituent assemblies and consultation at each stage of the process. As a result of this work, two draft constitutions were drawn up (in 2022 and 2023), but both were rejected by referendum. Despite this failure, the Chilean experience can be considered a paradigm, topical to new forms of constitution drafting around the world.

This symposium, held exclusively in English, brings together national and international specialists in constitutional processes from different disciplines to determine whether the Chilean process is indeed paving the way for new forms of constitution drafting in the 21st century.

The event will be conducted entirely in English and may also be attended remotely via Zoom (registration required: cerccle@u-bordeaux.fr).

See the programme here.

You can find all details on this website: https://cerccle.u-bordeaux.fr/evenements/drafting-constitution-21th-century-lessons-chile