Crowdlaw and Digital Parliament in Law-Making

Authors

Abstract

The present article aims to reflect on relevant experiences of citizen deliberation in processes of open normative creation through digital media that have been carried out in Chile - as forms of digital parliament and in the processes of participation in Chilean constituent processes -, within the context of its growing worldwide development to reconnect citizens with democratic political systems. The developments in Chile, as well as in comparative experience, show the need to regulate adequate deliberation and its impact on the processes of normative creation.

Keywords:

Law-making process, deliberation, crowdlaw, E-parliament

Author Biographies

Francisco Soto Barrientos, Universidad de Chile

Lawyer, master's degree from the Diego Portales University and doctorate in Law from the University of Barcelona. He is currently professor of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, where he is assigned to the Department of Public Law, as a full professor.

Claudio Fuentes Bravo, Universidad de Chile

Graduate in Philosophy, Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, master's degree and doctorate in Logic, University of Salamanca, guest professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Chile

Salvador Millaleo Hernández, Universidad de Chile

Lawyer from the University of Chile, doctor in Sociology from the University of Bielefeld, Germany. He is currently a researcher at the Human Rights Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile.

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