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24.09.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 329: The Right to Democracy and the Inter-American Democratic Test
Jesús María Casal and Mariela Morales Antoniazzi debated the right to democracy and how the Inter-American Democratic Test and judicial independence act as barriers against autocratization.
18.08.2025
Ibero-American Colloquium No. 328: Migration and Asylum in the Three Regional Human Rights Systems
Researcher Vera Wriedt presented a comparative analysis of how the European, Inter-American, and African human rights systems protect the rights of migrants and asylum seekers, highlighting the role of the right to nationality in each region.
02.08.2024
ICCAL LAB: Applications closed – selection of teams in December
The ICCAL Collaboration Lab (the “Lab”) seeks to bring together a diverse group of established and early-career scholars from, based in, or working on, Latin America and Europe, to undertake sustained academic collaboration for three years, with occasional visits to Heidelberg. Building on two decades of valuable lessons of the ICCAL – Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina project, the Lab will explore the role of comparative public law for democratic resilience in Europe and Latin America.
01.08.2024
Call for Applications : ICCAL LAB – Deadline Extension + Q&A
Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law – Call for Applicat
04.06.2024
Call for Applications: ICCAL LAB
The ICCAL Collaboration Lab – Comparative Public law for Democratic Resilience in Europe and Latin America
17.05.2024
Ibero-American Colloquium N°300 with Dr. Alejandro Linares
During the 300th edition of the Ibero-American Colloquim, Alejandro Linares spoke about the role of the Colombian Constitutional Court in the peace agreement with the FARC, from his perspective as former President of the Court.
19.04.2024
Ibero-American Colloquium N°299.2 with Dr. Paulette Baeriswyl Banciella
In Colloquium 299.2 Paulette Baeriswyl spoke about her doctoral research in the legal-historical field of the narrative of the precursor(s) of Spanish-American independence.
22.03.2024
Iberoamerican Colloquium N°298 with Luis Andrés Fajardo
In Colloquium No. 298, Luis Andrés Fajardo, university professor and researcher and Deputy Ombudsman of Colombia, spoke about the Constitutionality Block and its application in Colombia.
22.03.2024
Celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Ibero-American Colloquium
On February 26 and 27, the seminar to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Ibero-American Colloquium, within the centenary of the MPIL, took place under the title “Latinoamericanización: Coloquio Iberoamericano 2004-2024”.
20.06.2023
Summer Seminar 2023: The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System
From July 3 to 5, 2023, the X Ibero-American Seminar was held at the MPIL under the title: The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System. Transformations in the social reality.