The questions will focus on the social and normative consequences of the Chilean social outbreak and the operation of the election and the Convention, focusing on gender parity, the representation of indigenous populations and the role of independent members and members elected on party lists.

Our guest experts are Professors Verónica Undurraga (Constitutional Lawyer, Faculty of Law Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) and Daniel Chernilo (Professor of Sociology, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez)

Verónica Undurraga holds a LL.M. from Columbia Law School, New York, and a PhD in Law from the Universidad de Chile. She’s currently academic in de Faculty of Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. Her principal academic interests are in constitutional law, human rights and gender studies, especially sexual and reproductive rights, health and non-discrimination.

Amongst the topics that were discussed are

* procedural issues: how gender parity will be established, how indigenous peoples will be represented, and how the Convention will organize its proceedings

* and the topics for the Convention to debate and eventual agree on, such as oversight of the armed forces and the police; human rights and plurinationalism.

Daniel Chernilo holds a PhD in Sociology from Warwick University, UK. He is Professor in the School of Government at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University. His areas of research are the relationships between sociology and philosophy, especially, the connections between sociological descriptions of social life and the possibility of its normative critique based on philosophical tools.