Call for Papers — 13th RED-IDD Jornada

1. General provisions

The 13th Jornada is organised in two parts:

• Thematic panels: in-person talks by professors designated by RED-IDD member universities. Papers are published in a collective volume (book with ISBN) launched at the event.
• Working Groups (GTs): oral defence of papers submitted by doctoral and master's candidates, approved by the selection committee. Papers are published in the conference proceedings (ISSN).

Participation is in-person, at UNAM, between October 26 and 28, 2026.

2. Working Groups (12 GTs)

1. Fundamental Rights and Protection of Vulnerable Groups.
2. Crisis of Democracy and Constitutional Law: contemporary debates.
3. Fundamental Rights and Duties: Commitment to the Social and Democratic State.
4. Fundamental Rights, Business, Taxation and Budgets.
5. Fundamental Rights, Climate Change and Environmental Crisis.
6. Fundamental Rights, Artificial Intelligence, Neuro-Law and New Technologies.
7. Fundamental Rights, Constitutional and Conventionality Control.
8. Social Rights, Social Justice and Human Rights in a Context of Permanent Inequality.
9. Fundamental Rights and Judicial Guarantees: Due Process and Judicial Protection.
10. Fundamental Rights, Sovereignty and Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean.
11. The Role of the Constitutional Judge: Counter-Majoritarian Control and Deference.
12. Fundamental Right to Information, Inclusive Democratic Dialogue and New Forms of Governance.

3. Submission rules

• Eligible: professors from Master's and Doctoral law programs that are members of RED-IDD, and graduate students of member programs.
• Thematic panels: each Professor representing an institution submits a paper on the topic of their talk.
• Authorship: maximum 2 authors per paper, one paper per Working Group.
• Co-authorship: supervisors may co-author papers with their supervisees.
• Format: full papers, minimum 15 and maximum 20 pages. Abstracts alone are not accepted.
• Structure: title (original language and English), abstract (180–250 words), keywords (3 to 5), introduction, methodology, justification, research problem, expected results and references.

4. Formatting standards

• Language: Portuguese or Spanish.
• Font: Arial 12, 1.5 line spacing.
• Margins: 3 cm (top/left) and 2 cm (bottom/right).
• Citations: ABNT standards (author-date system).
• References: alphabetical order — author, title, edition, place, publisher and year.

5. Presentation and publication

• Book (ISBN): papers selected by the committee are published in a collective volume launched at UNAM in October 2026.
• Proceedings (ISSN): approved master's and doctoral papers presented in person are published in the proceedings.
• Presentation time: 15 minutes per paper, before the respective Working Group.
• Limit per GT: up to 15 papers.
• Thematic alignment: papers without strict relation to the proposed themes will not be accepted.
• AI / plagiarism: papers showing signs of plagiarism or generated solely by AI without doctrinal grounding will not be accepted.

6. Certification

All registered participants will receive a participation certificate, with a total workload of 40 hours.