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Dr.
Camila
Vergara

A critical legal theorist, historian, and journalist from Chile writing on the relation between inequality, corruption, and the law, and how to institutionally empower common people to resist oppression from the powerful few.. She is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Cambridge and the author of Systemic Corruption: Constitutional Ideas for an Anti-Oligarchic Republic (Princeton University Press 2020) and República Plebeya: Guía Practica para Construir Poder Popular (Sangría 2020), a political manifesto that has served as an organizing tool for local assemblies in Chile.