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
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
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 February 2023
Overcoming the Pinochet Factor in the Chilean Constitution-Making Process

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

Voices From The Field
22 December 2022
In the World of Constitution Building in 2022

Voices From The Field
23 August 2022
The “Regional State” in Chile’s proposed new Constitution: advantages and challenges for decentralization and equal territorial development

Voices From The Field
2 July 2022
Chile’s draft constitution looks to the future: digital rights as fundamental rights

Voices From The Field
25 May 2022
Reshaping the Chilean political regime: three acts and a funeral

Voices From The Field
25 January 2022
Citizens’ Participation at the Chilean Constitutional Convention: Balancing Expectations and Efficiency

Voices From The Field
22 December 2021
In the World of Constitution Building in 2021

Voices From The Field
30 November 2021
A Balancing Act: Public Participation, Decision-Making, and Freedom of Speech at the Chilean Constitutional Convention

Voices From The Field
30 October 2021
The Constitutional Convention’s rules of procedure: a path of transformative institutionalism in Chile

Voices From The Field
25 September 2021
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Chile’s Constitutional Convention Decides its Rules of Procedure
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Voices From The Field
31 May 2021
Chile Elects its Constitution-Making Body: The Potential and Risks of a Fragmented Convention