SELA

SELA 2025
June 13 – 15
Mexico City

Robert H. Burt Keynote:  Catherine MacKinnon

Session I: The State of Play in Mexico

Catalina Perez and Carlos de la Rosa    “The legitimacy of Mexico's judiciary 
seen from inside and outside”
Alejandro Madrazo        “Popular Sovereignty vs. Rule of Law”
Andrea Pozas    “The seeds of the 2024 judicial reform in Mexico in 
the hyper-reformism of the 1977 political reform”
Commentator:         Noah Novogrodsky 

Session II: IHR in a Hostile World

Delfina Beguerie    “Managing Conflicts between Constitutional and 
Human Rights Law”
Julieta Lemaitre and Pablo Kalmanovitz        “Criminal Organizations and 
Crimes against Humanity in Colombia and Mexico”
Marisa Iglesias Vila    “Structural vulnerability as central concept in IHR 
Adjudication”
Karina Ansolabehere    “A comparative analysis of IHR country 
recommendations by 3 monitoring bodies”

Session III: Threats to Democracy

Caio Mario Pereira    “Divisive Democracy and Regulatory Erosion in the 
Tropics: The Brazilian Case”
Jaime    Couso            “Between Denial and Cancel Culture”
Julio César Guanche        “Race and politics in Cuba”
Commentator:         Adilson Moreira

Session IV: Judge-centered Strategies for Constitutional Defense
Roberto Saba            “The Legitimacy of Constitutional Judges”
Sergio Campos and José Ignacio Hernández    “Civil rights injunction (US) v. 
amparo (Mx)”
Commentator:        Mariana Mota Prado 

Session V: Participation and Representation

Leticia Vita    “Citizen Participation in Argentina's Constituent 
Assemblies”
Martín     Hevia            “The Common Good and Civil Associations”
Lucas Grosman        “Democratic Quotas”
Commentator:         Ángel Oquendo

Session VI: Legal Education Roundtable

Panelists:    Pablo Larrañaga, Antonio Barreto, Ana Paula de 
Barcellos, Mónica González Contró
Moderator:             Martín Farrell