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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11.07.2026
Inspired by Brussels? What the EU’s Democratic Standards Can Offer a Democratic Transition
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11.07.2026
Alchemy of Peace: Lessons from Colombia for Venezuela
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10.07.2026
The Paradox of the Spanish Transition
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10.07.2026
Transitional Justice for Venezuela: Lessons from the Chilean Case
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09.07.2026
Irrelevant Law, Domestic Law, Imperial Law? U.S. Foreign Policy and the Justification for the Invasion of Venezuela
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09.07.2026
The Ius Constitutionale Commune facing State-Sponsored Organized Crime
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08.07.2026
A Constitutional Perspective on Venezuelan Democratization
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08.07.2026
Summary of the Findings of the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Venezuela
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07.07.2026
The Democratic Transition in Venezuela is an Inter-American Matter
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07.07.2026
Introduction to the Blog Symposium on the Transition in Venezuela: Re-Inter-Americanization as a Roadmap
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25.07.2026
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 349: “Justices on the Bench: Constitutional Courts in Comparative View”
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07.07.2026
ICCAL Blog Launch: First Series on the Democratic Transition in Venezuela
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23.06.2026
World Congress of Constitutional Law 2026: ICCAL Lab Workshops & Events
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19.06.2026
Von Bogdandy y Morales Antoniazzi participan en una reunión de expertos de DIRAJus V sobre el Sistema Interamericano
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18.06.2026
German Ambassador to Costa Rica receives Armin von Bogdandy and Mariela Morales Antoniazzi
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18.06.2026
Armin von Bogdandy addresses the impact of the Inter-American Court on academia
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12.06.2026
MPIL, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and BUAP resume the International Chair on Human Rights in Puebla
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11.06.2026
Mariela Morales Antoniazzi Receives the Faculty Mobility 2026 Award from Tecnológico de Monterrey
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08.06.2026
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 348: An evidence-based approach to “gender-transfomative” Reparations in Business and Human Rights
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03.06.2026
LASA 2026: ICCAL Lab Roundtable on Republican Traditions and Transformative Constitutionalism
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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.
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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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