Carlos Meléndez holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Notre Dame (Indiana, United States). He is an associate researcher at Instituto de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad Diego Portales (Chile). His main research interests are: partisanships and political parties in Latin America, clientelism and political coercion, and political reform. Part of his work has been published in American Journal of Political Science, Party Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, among others.

Johanna Fröhlich is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. Previously she was teaching at the Law School of the University San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and served as director of its Institute for Legal Research. Her courses range from legal reasoning and comparative constitutional law to research methodology and introduction to European Law. She holds an LL.M. from the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA and a Ph.D. in Law from the Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Hungary. Her publications can be found in Hungarian, English, Spanish and in Polish. She is the Principal Investigator of the CORE Project on Constitutional Reasoning in Latin America.

Marie-Christine Fuchs is a German lawyer (Rechtsanwältin, Berlin). Doctor in Law (Ph.D in Law) from Saarland University of Saarbrücken, Germany. She holds a masters’ degree (LL.M.) in International Public Law, Law of the European Union and Human Rights from the Europainstitut of the aforementioned university and a bachelor degree in French law. For several years she worked as a reseach assistent at Max Planck Institute for comparative and international Private Law in Hamburg, Germany and as an attorney in the international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Berlin, Germany. Since 2016 she is directing the Rule of Law Programme for Latin America of Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia. She is the author of various publications in International Public Law and Human Rights’ Law.

María José Garcia Ascolani is professor of human rights and international contracting, and she is currently serving as Director of the Legal Studies at the Universidad Autónoma de Asunción. She graduated in Law from the National University of Asunción (2008) and has a Master degree in International Protection of Human Rights from the University of Alcalá de Henares, Spain (2013). She is member of the Latin American Institute of the Ombudsman, President of the Association of Bioethical Studies of Paraguay and Vice President of Graduate Women chapter of the Graduate Women International in Paraguay. She is also specialist in mediation, bioethics and protection of the rights of the children and the family.

Ariana Macaya holds a PhD in Law at the Paris 1 University Panthéon Sorbonne. She received the War and Peace Institute’s award from the Paris 1 University Panthéon Sorbonne and the Souvenir Français’ Association. She also received the award from Fundación Varenne in 2015. Ariana has been a Professor of Constitutional Law for undergraduate school and a Professor of Territorial Collectivities and Constitutional Procedural Law for graduate school at Paris 1 University. She’s currently a Professor of Introduction to Law, Research Methods and Public International Law for graduate school and Professor of Human Rights International Protection for graduate school at Universidad de Costa Rica. She has collaborated in articles for French legal reviews, such as Les Petites Affiches, La Semaine Juridique and Constitutions.

Ariana is a researcher. Member of the Grupo de Pesquisa Social Desarrollo y Sustentabilidad Socio-ambiental (GPDS), of the JUST-Side (Cyted) network, and of the the CALAS-CIHAC project. Investigator of Estado de la Justica from the Estado de la Nación del Consejo Nacional de Rectores’ project. She is also a member of the Constitutional Law French Association and of the International Society of Public Law (Icon-S). 

Carlos Arturo Villagrán Sandoval obtained his Ph.D (Law) at Melbourne Law School. He also holds a Master in Public and International Law from the same institution and a Licentiate in Juridical and Social Sciences from Universidad Rafael Landívar of Guatemala. He is currently a researcher and lecturer at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Ciencias Jurídicas y Sociales of the Universidad Rafael Landívar. He teaches on topics related to Constitutional Law and Globalisation, Comparative Constitutional Law, Public International Law and Central American Integration Law.

Before commencing his PhD, he was Human Rights Adviser and State Council for the Guatemalan Government within the Project of Historical Memory and Human Rights for Peace of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). More recently, Carlos Arturo has litigated at the Guatemalan Constitutional Court, advised human rights groups, and drafted reports for international organizations on matters relating to foreign affairs, rule of law and the protection of human rights in Guatemala.  

Sergio Verdugo (JSD, LLM, LLB) is an Associate Professor of Law at Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile. He teaches Constitutional Law and Comparative Law, and he is a researcher of the ‘Centro de Justicia Constitucional.’ His research interests include constitutional theory, the politics of constitutional courts, comparative constitutional law, comparative politics and constitutionalism in Latin America.

Raul Sanchez Urribarri (PhD, LLM) is a Lecturer in Crime, Justice and Legal Studies at the Department of Social Inquiry, La Trobe University (Melbourne, Australia).  His research focuses on democracy, rule of law and comparative judicial studies, with an emphasis on Latin America and Venezuela in particular.  His work has been published in journals such as The Journal of Politics, Law and Social Inquiry, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, edited volumes and other outlets.  His main project involves assessing the politicisation of the Venezuelan Supreme Court in comparative perspective, and its role in the country’s democratic deterioration. 

Andrea Castagnola is Adjunct Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from University of Pittsburgh and had teaching and research positions in several research universities including: FLACSO (Mexico), Hertie School of Governance (Germany) and University of Bergen (Norway). Her research focuses on democracy, judicial politics, transparency and anti-corruption. Her work has been published in journals such as Journal of Politics, Journal of Politics in Latin America, Política y Gobierno publishing houses as Cambridge University Press and Routledge. His is also consultant for the World Bank and Inter American Development Bank on transparency, democracy and open government.

Roberto Niembro Ortega teaches Constitutional Law at the ITAM and is currently General Director of Institutional Relations at the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice. He is also the co-chair of the Mexican Chapter of the ICON-S.

He received his Ph.D. from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (with distinction CUM LAUDE and he is a CONACYT Scholar).He holds an LL.M. from NYU (Hauser Global Scholar) as well.

He is the author of Conceptualizing authoritarian constitutionalism (VRÜ 2016) and co-authored with Micaela Alterio Constitutional Culture and Democracy in Mexico. A critical view of the 100-YEAR-OLD Mexican Constitution in Constitutional democracy in crisis? (Oxford University Press 2018, eds. Graber, Levinson and Tushnet).

He is the co-editor of Jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional Español (Porrúa 2012 with Luis Pomed and Luis Alberto Trejo), Constitucionalismo Popular en Latinoamérica (Porrúa 2014 with Micaela Alterio), Constitucionalismo progresista: Retos y perspectivas. Un homenaje a Mark Tushnet (IIJ-UNAM 2016 with Roberto Gargarella), La Suprema Corte y el matrimonio igualitario en México (IIJ-UNAM 2017 with Micaela Alterio), and the forthcoming paper Diez sentencias emblemáticas de la Suprema Corte (IIJ-UNAM with Pedro Salazar and Carlos Alonso).

Anna Luisa Walter de Santana is a visiting researcher at Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia (aug. 2018 to feb. 2019). PhD at Law – Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Brazil (2016 – at present). Master at Law – Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, Brazil (2008). Member of the Global Business and Human Rights Scholars Association. 

Pablo González Domínguez. J.S.D. in International Human Rights Law, University of Notre Dame. LL.M. in International Legal Studies, Georgetown University. LL.B. Universidad Panamericana (Mexico). Staff Attorney at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Lecturer on human rights at Universidad Panamericana. Recent works include the book “The doctrine of conventionality control. Between uniformity and legal pluralism in the Inter-American Human Rights System” (Intersentia, 2018).

Magdalena Correa is a professor and researcher of Constitutional Law. Lawyer and Specialist in Administrative Law of the Externado de Colombia University and, Constitutional Law and Political Science of the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies of Madrid; Master in Administration and Public Management of the University of Antwerp; PhD in Law of the Charles III University of Madrid. Head of the Constitutional Law Department of the Externado de Colombia University. Associate Judge of the Constitutional Court.

Pier Paolo Pigozzi is a Professor of Law at Universidad San Francisco de Quito. He received his LL.B. at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, and his LL.M. and J.S.D. in International Human Rights Law at Notre Dame Law School. His areas of academic interest are the constitutional tradition in Latin America, sources and interpretation of Public International Law and the foundations of International Law of Human Rights.

Sergio Muro is the co-Director of the Supreme Court Project at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He received his LLB from Universidad Nacional de Rosario, an MA in Law & Economics from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and an LLM and JSD from Cornell University. His main research interests are Judicial Politics, Insolvency, Corporate Governance, Access to Justice, Judicial Organization, and Comparative Law & Economics. His work has appeared in leading peer-reviewed journals, such as the Journal of Law & Courts, European Business Organization Law Review, The Latin American and Iberian Journal of Law and Economics, Indret and Isonomia. Sergio has served as Legal Expert in an International Arbitration case and is a consultant for the World Bank Group.   

Francisco Javier Urbina is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, where he earned his LLB summa cum laude in 2007, before obtaining an M.St. and a D.Phil. in Law from the University of Oxford. His work is in Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, and Human Rights, focusing specially in human rights limitations. His work has been published in journals such as the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. He is the author of A Critique of Proportionality and Balancing (Cambridge University Press 2017) and co-author of Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation (Cambridge University Press 2018).

Tania Groppi is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Siena. She is a former legal advisor to the Italian Constitutional Court, Vice-president of the Group of Independent Experts on the European Charter of Local Self-Government of Council of Europe and Legal advisor on constitutional matters of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe.

She has been visiting professor at many Universities, such as the University of Paris I, Toulouse, Poitiers, Aix-en-Provence, Bordeaux (France); Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium); Centro de Estudios Constitucionales (Madrid); Université de Montréal (Canada); Hebrew University (Israel); Universidad Autónoma de Cohauila (México); FADISP (Brazil).

She has been legal advisor for the Italian Foreign Affairs Minister, for the Tuscany Regional Government, for the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, and on several projects of Democracy Reporting International.

She was the principle investigator of the Project of National Interest in Italy, on “Framing and Diagnosing the Constitutional Degradation: a Comparative Perspective” (PRIN 2017). She has also directed other projects founded by the European Union, the Italian government, the Tuscany regional government.

Anna Maria Lecis Cocco Ortu holds a PhD in Public Law from the Universities of Aix-Marseille (France) and Siena (Italy). Qualified for the functions of Associate Professor in France, she is lecturer and researcher in Comparative Constitutional Law, French Public Law and Italian Constitutional Law, with a teaching and researching experience in France and Italy and a record of internationally published studies in English, French, Italian and Spanish. She is currently Research fellow at the Comparative Law and Politics Center of the University of Toulon, Faculty of Law (CDPC – J.C. Escarras).

She participated as a speaker in several conferences in France, Italy, Norway, Serbia and Spain. Her research interests mainly focus on constitutional justice and judicial protection of fundamental rights, with particular attention to judicial reasoning and motivation and to the participation of amicus curiae and third-parties in public interest litigation.

She is a member of the Editorial Board of the French review La letter d’Italie and the Italian review GenIUS-Juridical Studies on Sexual Orientation and Gender and Section Editor of the Italian review Quaderni Costituzionali and the French review Annuaire International de Justice Constitutionnelle-AIJC.

She is currently involved in several research projects on French Constitutional Justice, Italian Constitutional Justice and Public Interest Litigation.

Dr. Juan C. Herrera is a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg. He is a former Law Clerk of the Constitutional Court of Colombia and his contribution for this project is a combination of his involvement in the academia and the mentioned tribunal. Juan’s research experience and areas of practice encompass national and supranational issues related to fundamental rights, democracy and regional integration in Latin America.

Rosa Llique Ramírez is a lawyer from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and holds a masters’ degree in Gender Studies from the same university. Currently, she is finishing a program in Bioethics at the Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya and works in research management, which has as its purpose the editing of the Derecho PUCP law review. Her research interests include topics related to interdisciplinary studies.

Juan Berríos Ortigoza is professor of constitutional law and associate researcher at the Institute of Political Studies and Public Law of the Universidad del Zulia (Venezuela). Doctor in Law from the National Distance Education University (UNED, Spain). He has a masters’ degree in Political Science and Public Law from the University of Zulia. His research focuses on identifying –in matters of fundamental rights, guarantees and State organization– jurisprudential lines of the Constitutional Chamber of the Venezuelan Supreme Court of Justice, and analyzing their development in the framework of politicization of justice and judicialization of politics. He is also co-founder of the Commission for Human Rights of the State of Zulia (Codhez), a civil society organization, where he has prepared reports on the general situation of human rights in the Zulia region.

María Alejandra Espino Layza is a lawyer by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP). She obtained a masters’ degree in Human Rights at the same university. Part-time assistant lecturer of the PUCP Law Department in the courses of Family Law Clinic, Introduction to Legal Science, and Disability Law Clinic. Part-time assistant lecturer of the General Studies Department, in the course of Citizenship and Social Responsibility. Strategic litigation lawyer of the Academic Office of the PUCP Law Faculty. She is in charge of Unicxs Legal Office that specializes in the defense of the transsexual people’s rights. In this office, she handles cases involving name changes, proceedings against acts of discrimination, and also focuses on carrying out policy advocacy.   

Juan Pablo Irrazabal is a lawyer who studied at the Catholic University of Asunción. He received a Master of Laws from the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in the field of Criminal law. He is currently a doctoral candidate at the same university at the Chair of Criminal Law and International Criminal Procedure Law. He is a scholarship holder of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. His areas of interest are especially Criminal law, Criminal procedure, Constitutional law and Public International law.