The International Workshop on Theories of Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights follows in the wake of the first meeting, held in July 2018, which brought together a group of experts who, from different disciplinary perspectives, study the activity of this international human rights court. The aim of these meetings is to go beyond a purely legal analysis of its activity and to direct the gaze to its philosophical-political and philosophical-legal presuppositions.

In addition to the researchers participating in the project "Judges in Democracy. The political philosophy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights" (DER2016-79805-P) along with other invited researchers, Judge Humberto Sierra Porto of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights will be present.

Agenda

Monday, November 11
Center for Political and Constitutional Studies (Meeting Room)

16:00 Inauguration
Dr. Yolanda Gómez (Director of the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies)
Dr. Carmen Pérez González Carmen Pérez González (Vice-Dean of International Relations and Academic Exchange of the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the University Carlos III of Madrid)
Dr. Pedro Pérez Herrero Director of the University Institute of Latin American Studies)
Dra. Isabel Wences  (Organizer of the workshop and Professor of the Department of Social Sciences, University Carlos III of Madrid)

16:15  First session
Presentation of the project "Judges in Democracy. The political philosophy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights".

16:35 Second session
(Really) on whose behalf? Democracy and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
Dr. Alejandro Sahuí (Autonomous University of Campeche, Mexico)
The Concept of Gender in the Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and its Implications
Dr. MariaCaterina La Barbera ( Nebrija University, Spain) e Isabel Wences (University Carlos III of Madrid)

Expert intervention
Judge Humberto Sierra Porto (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)

18:15 Break 

18:30 Third session
The Image of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights as an Agent of Democratic Transformation: a Tool of Self-validation
Dr. Natalia Torres Zúñiga (Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo)
"Modeling the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights through the vectorization of judgments".
Dr. Roberto Losada (University Carlos III of Madrid) 

Expert intervention
Judge Humberto Sierra Porto (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)

19:30 Discussion with project members and invited audience.
Rapporteurs:
David García García (PhD student, University Carlos III of Madrid)
Ruben García Higuera ((PhD student, University Carlos III of Madrid)
Dr. Jesús Ignacio Delgado (University Carlos III of Madrid)

Tuesday, November 12th
University Carlos III of Madrid, Puerta de Toledo campus (Room PT-0.A.09)

10:00-12:00. Fourth session
The harm to the life project in the jurisprudence of the IACHR in the light of Judith Shklar's theory of injustice.
Dr. Paloma de la Nuez Sánchez-Cascado (King Juan Carlos University)
Margin of appreciation and vulnerable groups
Dr. Jaime Gajardo Falcón (Diego PortalesUniversity)
Conventionality Control and Subsidiarity Principle in the Inter-American Court Jurisprudence
Dr. Mariano Melero de la Torre (Autonomous University of Madrid)

Expert intervention
Judge Humberto Sierra Porto (Inter-American Court of Human Rights)

Discussion with members of the project and with the public

12:00-12:15 Coffee break
12:30-14:00 Fifth session
Meeting and dialogue with special guests 
Can a living territory have human rights? Anthropological-legal reflections
Dr. Lieselotte Viaene (University Carlos III of Madrid)
Strategic judicial behavior and the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on ESCR.
Dr. Jorge Ernesto Roa Roa (University of the Externado, Colombia)

Rapporteurs:
David García García (PhD student, University Carlos III of Madrid)
Ruben García Higuera (PhD student, University Carlos III of Madrid)
Dr. Jesús Ignacio Delgado (University Carlos III of Madrid)

14:00-14:30 Sixth sessionón
Conclusions by the rapporteurs 

This Workshop has been made possible thanks to funding from the State Research Agency (project "Judges in Democracy. The political philosophy of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights", DER2016-79805-P), the Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of the University Carlos III of Madrid and the 2019 Call for grants for the organization of international conferences and scientific meetings and workshops of the University Carlos III of Madrid. As well as the support of the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies and the University Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Alcalá.