(Translated from Spanish)

Tom Ginsburg, professor of international law at the University of Chicago, is also co-director of the Comparative Constitutions Project, which has analyzed more than 200 countries worldwide, including Chile. He has visited our country twice and says many have asked the same thing: why a country like Chile needs a new Constitution, considering that there is no crisis. "When you look at other countries, most of the time, new constitutions were made in crisis," says the scholar from his office in Chicago.

Do you see need for a new Constitution?

Although there are many social demands, with the student protests, among others, there was no extreme sense of political crisis that usually helps when you want to make a constitutional amendment. Now, strangely, Chile is in the situation where suddenly there is a political crisis, but not necessarily that Bachelet would want, which is that of corruption. And it is a major crisis for Chile. Outsiders like me have always spoken of the Chilean exceptionalism: Chile is the only Latin American country that is not corrupt, ruled by law, where trains leave on time. But suddenly, it appears that Chile is not so exceptional, after all.

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