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Problemas actuales del derecho administrativo, 2024

Guillermo Jiménez, Diego Gil y Pablo Marshall (eds), El Dilema Constitucional , 2023

King's Law Journal, 2023

The paper argues that Chile's failed constitutional experiment shows that referendums can play an... more The paper argues that Chile's failed constitutional experiment shows that referendums can play an important if limited role in democratic constitution making. Chile’s distinctive path to constitution making sets it apart from other recent problematic experiences with constitutional referendums in Latin America and supports the claim that they may serve both enabling and constraining functions that are valuable for constitution making within democratic contexts. The case of Chile, however, also shows that referendums cannot substitute nor compensate for seriously defective representative institutions and, thereby, that they will work better or worse depending on the overall health of the democratic system within which they operate. This suggests that constitutional referendums and other democratic institutional arrangements move together.

Law and Social Inquiry, 2023

This article analyzes the processes shaping the emergence of a professionalized legal academia in... more This article analyzes the processes shaping the emergence of a professionalized legal academia in Chile. Through a case study informed by quantitative and qualitative evidence, the study shows that the control and orientation of a professional school is a contested space, where the interactions between the profession, the market, and the state shape the trajectory of the legal education field. The article argues that the neoliberal remaking of higher education of the 1980s created a regime that increasingly relies on performance indicators modeled on the paradigm of the research university, which have been used as an opportunity by law schools seeking elite status to increase their academic reputation through the formation of bodies of full-time legal scholars. This new institutional environment has produced, however, an important degree of malaise among the new professional legal academics, the majority of whom resent that their research is increasingly swayed by the standards imposed by governmental or university-wide bureaucratic structures rather than by the needs of legal practice.

Justicia y Nueva Constitución, 2023

SSRN Electronic Journal

This paper maps the main approaches that have taken shape following the recent theoretical turn t... more This paper maps the main approaches that have taken shape following the recent theoretical turn taken by British public law scholarship. It simplifies this huge topic by adopting a synthetic method of drawing clusters of ideas into three main systems, constructive, deconstructive and reconstructive. Constructivism assumes that theorising about public law involves an inquiry into normative foundations and exhibits variation because of the different types of theoretical resources employed (critical social theory, moral philosophy or political theory) or differences over what is assumed to be the normative core of the field (administration, judiciary, or Parliament). These methods are criticised by a deconstructive technique that maintains that scholars turning to theory become estranged from practice and unwittingly create the conditions for an uncritical recycling of certain myths that must be dispelled if an empirically sound grasp of the subject is to be attained. But constructivism is also criticised by a method, which here we call reconstructivism, that, in common with deconstructivism, is critical of attempts to promote a conception of public law founded on particular normative assumptions but, rejecting empiricism, advances an interpretative method that presents public law as the elaboration of political reason.

Estudios Públicos, 2020

Resumen. Los principales esfuerzos que se han hecho por examinar la cuestión de la legitimidad de... more Resumen. Los principales esfuerzos que se han hecho por examinar la cuestión de la legitimidad de la constitución actual y la necesidad de cambio constitucional están atados a una concepción soberanista o revolucionaria del poder constituyente que resulta inadecuada para el caso chileno. Esta forma de entender la cuestión constitucional ha llevado a que el debate sea presa tanto de una exagerada fijación con la herencia política y económica de la dictadura, como de un excesivo localismo que, al sobredimensionar las particularidades del caso chileno, impide apreciar sus afinidades con fenómenos más extendidos y mejor estudiados. El abandono de esta concepción del poder constituyente es así un primer paso para entender mejor el carácter de la así llamada "crisis constitucional" y del proceso de cambio constitucional que Chile enfrenta. Es más, como se muestra en este trabajo, el concepto de descomposición constitucional ofrece una perspectiva más apropiada para entender y discutir la experiencia constitucional chilena.