Lecture Series on the Constitutional State in Legal Sciences

The 27 of April the Faculty of Legal Sciences, as part of the events for its 30 years of foundation, gave for inaugurated the lecture series on "The constitutional State of law: crisis or institutional stability in the current situation".  

The event of that Thursday, called "The State and its democratic institutionality", began with a minute of silence for the death of Dr. José Cordero, one of the founders of the Faculty.

The Dean José Chalco Quezada inaugurated the cycle of conferences calling students to celebrate the first three decades of the Faculty with academic, cultural, social and sports activities since "the active participation of students is the raison d'être of events" .

The first speaker was Marco Machado Clavijo, who referred to the figure of the judge in the Ecuadorian State, describing it as the natural counterweight to political power.

"Its presence is so important that it can establish if public policies connect with constitutional purposes and if they harm -or not- the rights of citizens," said Dr. Machado.

The second speaker was José Chalco Salgado, who focused his lecture on hyperpresidentialism, a degeneration of the pure presidential system in the speaker's words.

"In hyperpresidentialism, competences are loaded into the president, mutating from a democracy to an autocracy."

The next conference will be the 4 in May and will deal with "Democracy and political parties".