Promoting human rights, democracy and the rule of law in Latin America
The Ius Constitutionale Commune in Latin America Project
ICCAL identifies and strengthens shared constitutional principles in Latin America, focusing on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law. Emerging from the interaction between domestic law, international human rights law, and comparative practice, this ius commune advances regional integration through judicial dialogue, jurisprudence, and institutional reforms.
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04.11.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 333: The Impact of Emerging Technologies on Fundamental Rights
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14.10.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 332: Judicial Reform in Mexico
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13.10.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 331: UNAM and Its Internationalization
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24.09.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 329: The Right to Democracy and the Inter-American Democratic Test
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18.08.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 328: Migration and Asylum in the Three Regional Human Rights Systems
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02.08.2024
ICCAL LAB: Applications closed – selection of teams in December
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01.08.2024
Call for Applications : ICCAL LAB – Deadline Extension + Q&A
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04.06.2024
Call for Applications: ICCAL LAB
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17.05.2024
Ibero-American Colloquium N°300 with Dr. Alejandro Linares
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19.04.2024
Ibero-American Colloquium N°299.2 with Dr. Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella
The ICCAL Network
A collective platform for academics, jurists, civil society activists, judges, civil servants, and social leaders from Latin America and other regions, working together to advance a shared constitutional agenda.
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Inter-American institutions
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National tribunals & institutions
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Universities
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Civil society & NGOs
October 2024
La dimensión laboral del constitucionalismo transformador en América Latina
Construcción de un ius commune
June 2024
América Central
El derecho ante democracias desafiadas
February 2024
The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
Transformations on the Ground
ICCAL Lab
The ICCAL Collaboration Lab brings together established and early-career scholars from, based in, or working on, Latin America and Europe for a three-year collaboration, with occasional visits to Heidelberg. Building on two decades of ICCAL, the Lab explores how comparative public law strengthens democratic resilience in Europe and Latin America.
E-ICCAL Virtual Course
In the context of Latin American constitutionalism, a common law with a transformative vocation has emerged, expressed through a shared discourse grounded in legal principles and the interaction between national constitutional systems and the Inter-American Human Rights System.
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