The Process, Promise, and Perils of Making A New Constitution for Chile
Chile is currently engaged in the process of drafting an entirely new constitution, through a distinctive process that has generated a great deal of attention and controversy. The new constitutional text will be considered in a referendum this coming summer. This panel of Kellogg-affiliated scholars will discuss the historical, political, and juridical context, content, and implications of the Chilean constitutional revision, from both national and international perspectives.
Panelists:
Paolo Carozza, professor of law and Director of the Kellogg Institute
Rossana Castiglioni (virtual), dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and History, Diego Portales University, and former Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Francisco Urbina, assistant professor of public law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, and Kellogg Institute Visiting Fellow
Samuel Valenzuela, professor of sociology and Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow
Moderated by:
Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, professor of political science and global affairs, Kellogg Institute Faculty Fellow and incoming Kellogg Institute Director
Paolo G. Carozza
Previously the director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies (2012-2022), Paolo Carozza is professor of law and concurrent professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. With expertise in comparative constitutional law, human rights, law and development, and international law, he focuses his research on Latin America, Western Europe, and international themes more broadly...
Rossana Castiglioni
This profile was current as of 2012, when she was part of the on-campus Kellogg community. Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow Rossana Castiglioni is the dean of social sciences and history at Diego Portales University in Chile and co-editor of the Journal of Politics in Latin America. Her research focuses on Latin American politics, comparative social policy, and democratic representation...
Francisco Urbina
Francisco J. Urbina joined the Law School in December 2022 and became a Kellogg faculty fellow in 2023. Urbina was a visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute and a concurrent visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School during the spring of 2022. His primary areas of work are human rights, jurisprudence, and constitutional law...
J. Samuel Valenzuela
J. Samuel Valenzuela is Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame. Valenzuela's publications have focused on the origins and development of electoral processes, on labor movements and politics, on oppositions under authoritarian regimes, on democratic transitions and consolidation, on political parties, on problems and theories of development, and on comparative methodology...