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Conversations with Judges – Can courts protect democracy? Daniela Salazar Marín

  • When Jun 23, 2025 from 06:00 to 08:00
  • Where Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 / HS 2091, 10117 Berlin
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These are challenging times, on many fronts. Specifically, courts and the judiciary are under pressure. When democracies tumble, or die, what is the role of courts? What are promising judicial strategies, resilient doctrines, and helpful remedies? We invite you to join a conversation with eminent judges from around the world to address these questions.

 

Daniela Salazar Marin is a magistrate in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court since 2019, and vice president of the court in the 2019-2022 period. She studied law at San Francisco de Quito University and an LLM at Columbia Law School in New York. She won Fulbright and Romulo Gallegos fellowships. Salazar Marin is a law professor at the San Francisco de Quito University, where she was Law School vice dean, co-director of the legal clinic and co-director of a working group on law and literature. She has also taught at Universidad Externado in Colombia, Universidad Nacional de San Martin National in Argentina and Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar in Ecuador.