DR MAURO ARTURO RIVERA

Mauro Arturo Rivera holds a Ph.D. from the Complutense University in Madrid, Spain. He was a Constitutional Doctrine Fellow at the Spanish Constitutional Court (2012-2013). Dr. Rivera performed research stays at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg), the Free University of Brussels (ULB), and was a visiting professor at the University of Silesia in Poland. From 2016 to 2020, he held different positions at the Mexican Supreme Court and Federal Electoral Court. In 2021 he was appointed Senior Law Clerk at the Mexican Supreme Court and wrote more than 70 rulings on behalf of the Court. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Silesia in Katowice, leading the project “Qualified majorities in counter-majoritarian mechanisms: Towards a new theory of supermajorities in judicial review,” funded by the Norwegian Financial Mechanism 2014-2021.

Samuel González Cataño

Juridical Sciences Doctorate Student, Yale Law School, Yale University.

Samuel González Cataño is a Mexican lawyer and political scientist currently pursuing a J.S.D. at Yale Law School, where he also obtained his LL.M. in 2022. He has collaborated at Isonomía, a prestigious Mexican journal on law and philosophy, and served in several positions at the Mexican Supreme Court and the General Consulate of Mexico in New York. Samuel’s research interests include comparative law in Latin America & the Global South, legal & judicial politics, and human rights & democracy.

Roman Gnaegi

Roman Gnaegi is a development/humanitarian professional and research student in the Doctor of Social Science (DSocSci) programme at University of Leicester. Over the last fifteen years he has worked as a staffer, consultant and advisor for non-governmental organizations in Burkina Faso, Uganda, Tanzania, Cambodia, Nepal, Chile, Argentina and his home country Switzerland. He currently lives in La Paz, Bolivia. Roman’s academic background is in Social Anthropology, Peace and Development Studies and Global Health. His research focusses on the peacebuilding contributions of health workers and other non-professional peacebuilders.

PROF HUGO ANDRES ROJAS CORRAL

Professor of Sociology of Law and Human Rights at Alberto Hurtado University in Chile and researcher at the Millennium Research Institute on Violence and Democracy. He holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, a masters in law, anthropology and society from the London School of Economics, a masters in public policy from Adolfo Ibáñez University, and is currently reading a doctorate in law and political science at the University of Salamanca. His research is interdisciplinary and focuses in the intersections between law, politics and society. His latest books are Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, with M. Shaftoe) and Past Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). His latest research is on “the rule of law and social uprisings”.

Federico Jorge Gaxiola Lappe

Juridical Sciences Doctorate Student,School of Law, New York University, US.

Federico Jorge Gaxiola Lappe is a JSD student from Mexico at NYU. He completed an LL.M. in Legal Theory at NYU as a Hauser Global Scholar and a Bachelor of Arts in Law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. He worked for approximately 6 years at the National Supreme Court of Mexico, where he was a judicial assistant to Justice Cossío Díaz and Justice Medina Mora, and a law clerk to Justice González Alcántara Carrancá. In 2022, Jorge was professor at Escuela Libre de Derecho, where he taught the course Legal Theory. Jorge is interested in the way in which law deals with and resolves conflicts of values. Particularly, he is interested in researching new challenges to democratic practices, like the proliferation of disinformation, that require us to adjust preconceptions about how human rights and democratic processes operate as reciprocal limits and conditions to each other, and about the value of acknowledging the existence of conflict, moral remainders, and moral loss.

Isobel T. Webster

Isobel T. Webster(she/her) is a doctoral student at the University of Leicester, currently researching British Latinx Literature in the 21st Century. She recently completed an MPhil at Leicester, her thesis exploring the representations of queer Puerto Ricans in documentary film. Her research interests include Latin American and Latinx visual and literary cultures, particularly looking at the intersections with gender studies, queer studies and disability studies.

MARCUS V. A. B. DE MATOS 

Marcus is a Lecturer in Brunel University London, in the Division of Public and International Law. Dr De Matos holds a PhD in Law from Birkbeck, University of London, fully funded by a CAPES Foundation Overseas Scholarship (0999-12-1). He is an Honorary Member at the Institute of Brazilian Lawyers (IAB), and currently a Guest Lecturer at the State Attorney’s Office (PGE/RJ) Professional Postgraduate School, where he teaches Legal Theory classes in the Public Law Programme. Before joining Brunel he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National School of Law in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), funded by the Brazilian National Council of Research (CNPq). Previously he was Director of Teaching Programmes at the Judicial School in the High Labour Courts in Rio de Janeiro (TRT/RJ); Advisor to the State Secretariat for Human Rights in Rio de Janeiro (SEASDH).

Natalia Morales Cerda

PhD Candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in Public Law at University College London

Natalia Morales Cerda (she/her) is a PhD Candidate and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant in Public Law at University College London. Her PhD research project contributes to the literature on women’s political participation and representation in constitution-making through examining the 2021-2022 Chilean constituent process. Adopting a theoretically informed socio-legal methodology, her research critically assesses women’s direct participation in constituent processes in both democratic and feminist theory. Through this examination, her research also provides a feminist critique of the ‘crisis’ of democratic representation. Natalia has been a visiting scholar at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and at Università degli Studi di Milano.

NOEMI CARDENAS VALTIERRA

Noemi is a talent development professional in the private sector and a research student in the DSocSci Programme (Doctor of Social Science) at the University of Leicester. She has experience in the private sector in México in the automobile and beverage industries in talent management, strategic human resources, and labour relations. She has held the positions of Human Resources Manager, Manager of Labour and Union Relations, and her current role is Senior Manager of Talent Management and Diversity and Inclusion. The main responsibilities are strategising and deploying talent development and fostering an inclusive environment in Mexico and Brazil.

She has a master’s degree in Organizational Development and Change from the Universidad de Monterrey and presented a thesis related to motivation triggers for change in senior workers in public organisations. Her research interests encompass gender dynamics in executive roles by studying the talent pipelines in managerial positions. Noemi lives in Guanajuato, México.