Voices from the Field
Through the eyes of local experts and actors, ConstitutionNet’s ‘Voices from the Field’ series offers a monthly look at constitution building processes as they are unfolding on the ground around the world. Contributions take the form of interviews with, and opinion pieces from, constitutional experts, lawyers, practitioners and other engaged citizens in the field for a fresh and original look at issues of importance to local populations during the drafting, adoption and implementation of constitutions.

Voices From The Field
5 March
Nicaragua: A New Absolutist Constitution Tailor-Made for an Authoritarian Couple

Voices From The Field
10 February
In the World of Constitution-Building in 2024 and 2025 Forecast

Voices From The Field
31 May 2024
2024 Referendum in Ecuador: Between Fear and Legitimacy

Voices From The Field
26 March 2024
Back to Bicameralism: The Illiberal Goals of Peru's Constitutional Reforms

Voices From The Field
29 February 2024
Mexico 2024: The Battle for the Constitution

Voices From The Field
31 January 2024
In the World of Constitution-Building in 2023

Voices From The Field
22 December 2023
Two Drafts, Three Referendums, and Four Lessons for Constitution-making from Chile

Voices From The Field
22 December 2023
The Chilean Constitutional Process: a Closed Chapter

Voices From The Field
22 December 2023
The Risks of Wholesale (and Ideologically Tilted) Constitutional Replacements: Lessons from Chile’s Rejections

Voices From The Field
23 October 2023
Chile’s Constitutional Original Sin Unlikely Redeemed?

Voices From The Field
29 August 2023
The new Chilean constituent process: exercising the ‘muscle’ of public participation in an adverse context

Voices From The Field
2 August 2023
Oil extraction or biodiversity protection? The dilemma in Ecuador’s upcoming referendum

Voices From The Field
30 June 2023
Chile’s New Constitutional Proposal: A Balance Between Change and Continuity?

Voices From The Field
14 May 2023
Tides of Change: Analyzing the Power Shift in Chile’s Constitutional Process

Voices From The Field
28 March 2023
A Tale of Failed Reforms: the Ecuadorian Referendum and Political Fallout

Voices From The Field
28 February 2023
Overcoming the Pinochet Factor in the Chilean Constitution-Making Process

Voices From The Field
27 February 2023
The political crisis in Peru: is there a constitutional solution?

Voices From The Field
3 February 2023
Third Time’s a Charm? Chile Embarks on a New Constitution-making Process

Voices From The Field
31 October 2022
Will Belize Get a People’s Constitution? Prospects and Challenges

Voices From The Field
26 August 2022
Brazil’s Frenetic Pace of Constitutional Change under Bolsonaro: Why and What Next?