Academic Mayra Feddersen, keynote speaker at annual conference of the International Society of Public Law, ICON-S

“War, Conflict and Migration: Governance of Migration in Times of Crisis” was the panel in which Mayra Feddersen, an academic from the Law School of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI), participated as a keynote speaker at the international conference held annually by the International Society of Public Law, ICON-S, which this year took place in the city of Wroclaw, Poland, under the title “Global Problems and Prospects in Public Law”.

Professor Feddersen began her presentation by reflecting on the political, economic and social effects of contemporary migration on the societies of arrival, and the various types of legal reactions of the receiving states to this flow. In the second part of her presentation, the UAI Law School academic analyzed how this phenomenon was picked up in South America. To this end, she presented the preliminary results of her Fondecyt Initiation project entitled “Security vs. human rights? Semantic evolution of migration policy in South America and the factors that determine it”.

As Mayra Feddersen explained in this research “we have been able to compare the legal responses of Argentina, Chile and Peru from 1800 to 2018 using sophisticated artificial intelligence techniques that have allowed us to analyze the entire body of laws that have been issued in those countries to regulate the entry, stay and departure of foreigners for more than 118 years”.

In addition to Professor Feddersen, the plenary session featured presentations by Jorrit Rijpma, Professor of European Law at the University of Leiden and Carmen Pérez, Professor of International Public Law at the University Carlos III of Madrid. The session was moderated by Patrycja Matusz, Professor and Vice-Rector for Projects and International Relations at the University of Wrocław.

Access the plenary session of the international conference here.