UAI academics participate in global meeting on law and society in Lisbon
Professors Ricardo Lillo, Javier Wilenmann, Sergio Gamonal and Mayra Feddersen of the Law School of Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI) participated actively in the seventh version of the Global Meeting on Law and Society, held this year in Lisbon, Portugal. The meeting is organized every five years by the Law & Society Association (LSA), one of the most important disciplinary groups in the United States, particularly in the field of socio-legal research, and brings together academics from leading universities in that country and the world. On this occasion, the Global Meeting on Law and Society addressed issues of law, history, art, sociology, psychology, politics and culture with a special focus on the past in order to draw lessons of hope for the future.
During the international meeting Professor Ricardo Lillo participated in a panel on access to civil justice where he presented his research entitled: “Legal procedure as a barrier for access to civil justice. The case of Landlord-tenant proceedings in Santiago, Chile”. The work “presents the results of an empirical study on the landlord-tenant procedure in the civil courts of Santiago and analyzes how the design of the procedure can generate access barriers for people to solve their justiciable problems before the justice system”, explained the academic.
Javier Wilenmann, professor and director of the Center for Research in Law and Society (CIDS) of the faculty, presented a discussion of work in progress on criminal courts as places of punishment. “The discussion brought together several of the world’s leading scholars on the sociology of punishment, specifically in research on courts and other actors in the penal system. In my case, I was invited to give an account of empirical research on criminal courts in Latin America; whether they sufficiently covered the documentation and explanation and interpretation of their punishment practices, beyond the imposition of formal sanctions, and to exemplify this with my ongoing research,” he said of his participation in the meeting in Lisbon.
Sergio Gamonal, meanwhile, participated in the panel “Statutory Work Law: Potentialities and Problems” with a paper entitled The Paradox of Certainty in Labor Law. “It is a work done in conjunction with Professor César Rosado of Iowa University School of Law,” said the UAI Law academic.
Professor Mayra Feddersen participated in the hybrid version of the seminar by remotely moderating a panel on the State, borders and immigration control. She also participated in a panel on comparative migration policy and presented her research on the role of ideas in South American migration policy, emphasizing the experience of Chile, Argentina and Peru between 1900 and 2018. “The Law and Society Annual Conference is a premier venue to present preliminary results and to draw on the work of other scholars. There is a migration studies community that is very energizing,” commented Mayra.
The 2022 Global Meeting brought together the international socio-legal community and was held in a mixed format with virtual and face-to-face sessions. The plenary sessions focused on the main research and debates on the unraveling of the social, legal and political structures that have perpetuated and evidenced racism and inequality in society.
