LAS INSTITUCIONES DEMOCRÁTICAS A PRUEBA DE POPULISMO: UNA REFLEXIÓN SOBRE LAS PROTESTAS CHILENAS

The social conflicts in Latin America and in the rest of the world remind us of the extent to which legal and institutional forms sacrifice interests and forms of life, producing painful inequalities and conflicts, and reveal-ing once again the paradoxical and ambivalent nature of law, the order of which is profoundly and constitutively embedded in the dimension of power. The Roman concept of fictio legis can perhaps help to visualize this delicate dynamic, in order to avoid a hypostatization of the historically achieved institutional order.