DR. LILIANA OBREGÓN TARAZONA
THE RESEARCH PROJECT EUROPE 1815-1914, P.O. BOX 24, UNIONINKATU 40A, FI-00014,
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, FINLAND
[email protected] ● http://www.helsinki.fi/erere/
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PRESENT POSITION
Postdoctoral Researcher, The Research Project Europe 1815-1914, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human
Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland (Sept. 1, 2009 – Sept 1, 2012)
Associate Professor of Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia (on leave until August, 2012)
EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI, ERIC CASTREN INSTITUTE, Helsinki, Finland
Postdoctoral Research (2009 - present)
Individual Research Project: “Writing the World through Law: Lawyers and their International Histories 1758-1870 as
part of the project “The Research Project Europe: Between Restoration and Revolution, National
Constitutions and Global Law: an Alternative View on the European Century 1815-1914” sponsored by
the European Research Council.
Project Directors: Martti Koskenniemi (Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, Faculty of Law)
and Bo Strath (Department of World Cultures, Faculty of Arts)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, LAW SCHOOL Cambridge, MA
S.J.D. (Doctor of Juridical Science), 2002
Dissertation:
“Completing Civilization: Nineteenth Century Creole Interventions in International Law”
Fields:
International Law, International Legal History, Social Theory, Latin American History and Cultural Studies
Advisor:
David Kennedy, Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law
Diss.Committee: David Kennedy, Duncan Kennedy (HLS), Doris Sommer (Romance Languages and Literatures, HarvardU)
Awards and Activities:
Clark Byse - David Rockefeller Center Teaching and Dissertation Fellowship (2000-2001)
Samuel Morse Lane Fellowship, Harvard Law School Graduate Program (1999-2000)
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Summer Research Grant (summer, 1999)
Harvard University - University of Los Andes Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (1997-1999)
Fundación para la Educación Superior (FES) Fellowship for Graduate Studies (1997-1998)
HARVARD UNIVERSITY, LAW SCHOOL Cambridge, MA
LL.M. (Master of Laws-waived), 1997
LL.M Paper: “The Discourse of Democracy, Drugs and Human Rights: A Lethal Mix”
Advisor:
Henry Steiner, Director, Human Rights Program
Awards and Activities:
Harvard Law School, Graduate Program and Human Rights Program, Tuition Fellowship for LL.M.
Studies (1996-1997)
Fundación para la Educación Superior (FES) Fellowship for Graduate Studies (1996-1997)
Harvard Human Rights Program, Summer Internship Grant to work with the United Nations High
Commissioner‟s Office for Human Rights in Colombia (summer, 1997)
Co-coordinator and organizer of the conference “Law and Democracy in Colombia,” Harvard Law
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School. The conference was the first such forum on Colombia held at Harvard University. With the
participation of 14 speakers and 250 guests it obtained the support of the David Rockefeller Center for
Latin American Studies, Kennedy School of Government, Graduate Program at Harvard Law School,
and the Center for Criminal Justice. (1997)
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL STUDIES (SAIS)
Washington D.C., U.S.A. & Bologna, Italy - (1991-1993)
M.A. in International Relations, 1993
Concentrations: Latin American Studies and International Economics
Awards and Activities:
Ford Foundation Fellowship for second year of M.A. studies (1992-1993)
Full-Tuition Waiver for first year of M.A. studies (1991-1992)
Research Intern for Frank Smyth, freelance journalist - researched and edited for book on US foreign
policy in El Salvador and assisted in research for articles on the human rights situation in Guatemala
(1992-1993)
UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, LAW SCHOOL
Bogotá, Colombia
Abogada, (Lawyer, equivalent to LL.B. or Bachelor of Laws), 1990
Concentrations: Legal History, International Law, Human Rights and Environmental law
Thesis:
La historia del derecho ambiental en Colombia (The History of Environmental Law in Colombia)
Awards and Activities:
Organization of American States (OAS) Fellowship to study international law and regional integration at
the Pontificia Universidade in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (summer 1990)
Institute for Ibero-American Cooperation Fellowship for semester abroad to study Ibero-American
history and literature at the Ortega and Gasset Foundation in Toledo, Spain (fall, 1986)
Research Assistant for the Center for International Studies (Centro de Estudios Internacionales - CEI) on
issues of international humanitarian law, human rights law, drug trafficking and the environment.
ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
Postdoctoral Researcher, The Research Project Europe 1815-1914, Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human
Rights, University of Helsinki, Finland (2009-2012)
Associate Professor of Law (Profesor Asociado), Universidad de Los Andes, Law School, fall, 2006 – present.
Assistant Professor of Law (Profesor Asistente), Universidad de los Andes, Law School, fall, 2003 – 2006.
ADDITIONAL TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Center for Latin American Studies, June- July 2008.
Worked on updating bibliography for book manuscript.
Visiting Professor, taught a two week “Introduction to International Law” course for Master´s Students at the University for
Peace, Costa Rica, December 1-15, 2008.
Visiting Resource Professor, invited by the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies to participate in the
School of Law´s Human Rights and Justice Workshop and have special access to UT library collections and archives,
University of Texas at Austin, October 2 - 9, 2006.
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Visiting Professor, taught a three week seminar titled “Latin American Legal Theory in International Law” as part of the
course Latin American Legal Theory organized by professor Berta Hernández, Levin College of Law, University of Florida,
Gainesville, September 26- October 14, 2004.
Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Institute for Legal Studies, spring, 2004.
On leave from the University of Los Andes Law School. Research and writing of articles for publication
Acting Associate Director- University of Wisconsin-Madison, Global Studies Program 2001 - 2002
Oversaw Global Studies programs.
Lecturer, designed and co-taught, with Emeritus Professor Joseph Thome, a graduate course titled “Crossing Borders,
Crossing Lives: Issues of Law and Society in Latin America” at the University of Wisconsin, Law School, spring, 2002.
Research Assistant, for Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2000.
Visiting Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Global Studies and Institute for Legal Studies 2000 -2001
Worked on SJD dissertation; presented a paper on dissertation work at the ILS seminar, Feb 20, 2001; co-planned,
coordinated and hosted the interdisciplinary conference “New Approaches to the Study of Social Conflict in Colombia”, held
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 23, 2001 with the support of the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian
Studies Program (LACIS).
Lecturer, designed and directed a fall semester graduate workshop titled “Borderless Identities: Comparing Latin American
and U.S. LatCrit Approaches to International Law,” as the Clark Byse-David Rockefeller Fellow, Harvard Law School, fall,
2000
Director of Publications and Legal Research, Center for Justice and International Law, (Washington D.C.), 1994 - 1996.
• Designed, researched, wrote and edited a new series of CEJIL publications in English and Spanish; counseled and litigated
human rights cases before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; wrote successful fundraising proposals to
several U.S. and European funding institutions; collaborated in litigation, advocacy and publication projects with Human
Rights Watch/Americas
Program Associate, Conservation International, (Washington D.C.), 1993 - 1994.
• Coordinated, counseled, advocated and researched projects in conservation economics in Latin America (debt for nature
swaps, natural forest management, biodiversity prospecting).
Research Fellow, Presidency of Colombia. Advisory Committee on Human Rights, (Bogotá) spring, 1991.
• Researched and wrote for the 1991 Human Rights Presidential Report.
Research Associate, Center For International Studies, University of Los Andes, (Bogotá), 1989 – 1991.
• Researched wrote and published a book on the integration process between Colombia and Venezuela, an initiative that
addresses bilateral problems of the environment, immigration, education and trade (sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation for Colombia (FESCOL) and the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs).
• Organized an international seminar on foreign policy and the environment.
Research Assistant, Center For International Studies, University of Los Andes, (Bogotá), 1988 – 1989.
• Assisted in research and writing for projects on human rights, the history of international humanitarian law and the political
and legal consequences of drug policy in Colombia.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Writing the World through Law: Lawyers and their International Histories 1750-1870 (working title of a book
manuscript in process)
Intervenciones criollas en el derecho internacional: Andrés Bello, Carlos Calvo y Alejandro Álvarez Editorial Legis
– Universidad de los Andes (forthcoming 2012).
(Co-author with Diego Cardona, Carlo Nasi, Arlene B. Tickner and Juan Tokatlian), Colombia Venezuela: crisis o
negociación, Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogotá, 1992.
(Co-author with Carlo Nasi), Colombia Venezuela: conflicto o integración, Fundación Friederich Ebert de Colombia,
Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogotá, 1990.
Book Chapters:
“?Para qué un derecho internacional latinoamericano?” (chapter manuscript in process for the handbook “Derecho
Internacional” edited by René Urueña, Universidad de los Andes)
“Haiti and the Cosmopolitan Imagination” for Analyzing Cosmopolitanisms in Enlightenment Europe and
Beyond, edited by Mónica García-Salmones and Pamela Slotte, (in external peer review by publisher)
“The Civilized and the Uncivilized” for the Oxford Handbook on the History of Public International Law, edited by
Anne Peters and Bardo Fassbender, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2012.
“Construyendo la región americana: Andrés Bello y el Derecho Internacional,” in La idea en el pensamiento ius
internacionalista del siglo XXI: Estudios a propósito de la conmemoración de los bicentenarios de las
independencias de las repúblicas latinoamericanas, Yolanda Gamorra Chopo (coord), Institución Fernando El
Católico, Zaragoza, 2010. Pgs 65-86.
“Latin American International Law,” Routledge Handbook of International Law edited by David Armstrong,
Routledge New York. 2009. Pgs.154-164.
“Construyendo la región americana: Andrés Bello y el Derecho Internacional,” Andrés Bello y los Estudios
Latinoamericanos. Serie Críticas, edited by Beatriz González Stephana and Juan Poblete. Instituto Internacional de
Literatura Iberoamericana, University of Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh 2009, Pgs.189-218.
“Between Civilization and Barbarism: Creole Interventions in International Law," International Law and the Third
World: Reshaping Justice, edited by Richard Falk, Balakrishnan Rajagopal and Jacqueline Stevens, RoutledgeCavendish, London. 2008. Pgs. 111-128.
“Creole Consciousness and International Law in Nineteenth Century Latin America,” International Law and Its
Others, edited by Anne Orford, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2006. Pgs. 247-264
“Críticas tempranas a la esclavización de africanos,” Afrodescendientes en las Américas. Trayectorias sociales e
identitarias (150 años de la abolición de la esclavitud en Colombia), Ed. UN, ICANH, IRD, ILSA, Bogotá, 2002.
Pgs. 2-45.
“In Search of Hope: the Plight of Displaced Colombians”, The Forsaken People, edited by Roberta Cohen and
Francis Deng, The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C., 1998, Pgs. 399-455.
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Articles:
“Construyendo la región americana: Andrés Bello y el Derecho Internacional,” Revista de Derecho Público,
Universidad de los Andes, N° 24. 2010. Pgs. 3-22.
“The Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Latin America”, Maryland Journal of International Law 24. 2009.
Pgs. 94-98.
“Between Civilization and Barbarism: Creole Interventions in International Law,” Third World Quarterly,
Cambridge University Press, volume 27, No. 5. 2006. Pgs 815-832.
“Noted for Dissent: The International Life of Alejandro Alvarez”, Special Edition of the Leiden Journal of
International Law, volume 19, No. 4, Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pgs. 983-1016.
“The Colluding Worlds of the Lawyer, the Scholar and the Policy Maker: A View of International Law and Foreign
Policy from Latin America,” Wisconsin Journal of International Law Vol. 23, Issue 1. 2005. Pgs. 145-172
“Rethinking Human Rights: Unshackling the Story,” ReVista Harvard Review of Latin America, David Rockefeller
Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, fall 2003.
“Spanish Colonial Critiques of African Enslavement,” Beyond Law - Race, Racism and Law in the Global South”,
ILSA, 2002. Pgs. 41-66.
“The Forgotten 19th Century: A New History of a ´Latin American´ International Law,” Contributions of a
Workshop on New Scholarship in International Public and Private Law, Hague Yearbook of International Law, Nº
13. 2000. Pgs. 27-32.
“Entre la civilización y la barbarie: derecho internacional y nación en la América Española del siglo XIX,” Actas de
las Jornadas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA) 1999 Cusco, Fondo Editorial Cronolibros, Lima, 2001, Pgs 4579.
(Co-author with Carlo Nasi), "El nuevo rumbo de las relaciones colombo-venezolanas" en Colombia
Internacional, Universidad de los Andes – Centro de Estudios Internacionales, Bogotá, Oct.-Dec., 1989.
Other Publications:
Commentary: “Comment on Professor Weiler´s Plenary Talk ´The Geological Strata of International Law‟,”
Proceedings of the American Society of International Law, Centennial Conference, Washington D.C., 2006. Pgs.
103-107.
Report (Co-author): “Estudio sobre la Función Disciplinaria de la PGN con especial atención a las dependencias que
investrigan a los integrantes de la Fuerza Pública y de los que cumplen funciones de Policía Judicial: aspectos
doctrinales, jursiprudenciales y sociológicos”, Programa de Apoyo al Fortalecimiento Institucional PGN-BID,
Procuraduría-BID, UniAndes, CIJUS, Bogotá, agosto 2005.
Encyclopedia entries: “Black Codes in Latin America and the Caribbean,” “Colonial Critics of Slavery”, “Human
Rights in Latin America and the Caribbean,” “Punishment of Slaves in Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean,”
“Slavery Laws in Colonial Spanish America” in Encarta Africana, Microsoft, CD-Rom, and Africana: The
Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Perseus Books, 1999.
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Encyclopedia entries: “Simón Bolívar,” “Bartolomé de las Casas,” “Graciela Dixon,” “José Francisco Peña Gómez,”
“Sara Gómez,” “Evangelina Rodríguez “José Antonio Saco” y “Estebanico,” in Encarta Africana, Microsoft, CDRom y en Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Perseus Books, 1999.
Conference Proceedings (Editor): “Law and Democracy in Colombia,” David Rockefeller Center for Latin American
Studies, Working Paper Series, 1997.
Report (Translator): “Human Rights and Mental Health in Uruguay”, Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Washington D.C, 1995.
Gazettes (Editor and Author): CEJIL Gazette, English and Spanish, Washington D.C., No.1-4, 1994-1996.
News Update “Colombia before the Inter-American Human Rights System” in Colombia Update, Vol. 7, No 1. 1995.
Amicus Curiae (Co-author) Amicus Curiae presentado ante la Corte Suprema Argentina en un caso de desaparición
forzada conocido como Mignone, Emilio F., s/ presentación en causa Nro. 761,"Hechos denunciados como ocurridos
en el ámbito de la Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada (E.S.M.A.)" HRW, CEJIL, Washington D.C. junio,
1995.
News Update: “Law on Forced Disappearances,” Colombia Update, Vol. 6, No. 4. 1994.
News Update: “Environmental Rights: Toxic Trade Exports to Colombia,” Colombia Update, Vol. 6, No. 3. 1994.
Research Assistant for Alejandro Valencia Villa for the book La humanización de la guerra: Derecho internacional
humanitario y conflicto armado en Colombia, winner of the International Committee of the Red Cross's 1991 Paul
Reuter prize, Tercer Mundo Editores, Bogotá, 1991.
Research Assistant for Juan Tokatlian for the book Narcotráfico en Colombia, Ediciones Uniandes- Tercer
Mundo Editores, Bogotá,1990.
ACADEMIC PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Cores and Peripheries in Early Nineteenth Century Legal Histories” for the conference “International Law and
the Periphery” convened by Thomas Skouteris and Fleur Thomas, Cairo, February 17-19, 2012.
“Writing Empire in Histories of the Law of Nations” for the workshop on “International Law and Empire”
convened by Martti Koskenniemi and Anne Orford, Helsinki, November 4-6, 2011.
“Writing the World through Law: Lawyers and their International Histories 1758-1870” for the ERERE Project
Midstream Conference,with discussant Alejandro Lorite-Escorihuela, University of Helsinki, Oct 24, 2011.
“ Constructing the Past, Making the Future: Political Agents and Legal Systems in the 19th Century” workshop
organized by Liliana Obregón and Martti Koskenniemi with guest speakers Anthony Carty, University of Hong
Kong; Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, University of Texas- Austin; Kaius Touri, Helsinki University; Isabel DiVanna,
University of Cambridge; Helsinki, April 6, 2011.
“Andrés Bello y el Derecho Internacional” for the conference “Andrés Bello et la construction des Républiques
d´Amérique latine,” (Dans le cadre de la célébration du bicentenaire des indépendances des pays d‟Amérique
latine et des Caraïbes, Sous le haut patronage des ambassadeurs des pays d‟Amérique latine en France et du
ministère des Affaires étrangères et européennes, direction des Archives), Paris, Nov 30, 2010.
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“Haiti and the Cosmopolitan Imagination” presentation for the conference “Coming to Terms with Teleologies
and Assessing Cosmopolitanism,” University of Helsinki, Finland, April 26-28, 2010.
“Notes on Haiti and the 19th Century History of International Law” paper for the panel “Constructing
International Law at World Peripheries”, International Law and World Order: An International Conference,
University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee. April 17-18, 2010.
“El derecho internacional como nuevo lenguaje de la independencia latinoamericana” paper for the conference
'Las repúblicas latinoamericanas en sus bicentenarios', Institución 'Fernando el Católico. Zaragoza, Spain
December 14 and 15, 2009.
“Revisiting Regional Unity and State Independence Discourses for Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador
International Law and Latin America » paper for the panel “ Rethinking Inequality in Universal Values, State
Independence, and Human Rights (1810-2010)”, XXVIII Latin American Studies Association Conference, Rio
de Janeiro, June 11-14, 2009
“Comentarios sobre la Política Integral de Derechos Humanos del Ministerio de Defensa” for the Grupo de Interés
Público, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, October 22, 2008.
“ El Sistema Interamericano y la protección de los derechos del niño” for the Curso de Protección Jurisdiccional
de los Derechos del Niño para jueces, fiscales y abogados de Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay y
Uruguay, Universidad Diego Portales de Chile an UNICEF, Bogotá, October 7, 2008.
“Post Colonialism and Empire,” comments for the International Affairs Summer Institute on Global Governance,
Watson Institute at Brown University, June 9- 12, 2008.
"Andrés Bello´s Roman Law and International Law as Foundational Projects for the Newly Independent Latin
American States" for the “Alberico Gentili (1522-1608) Commemorative Conference: A Just Empire? Rome‟s Legal
Legacy and the Justification of War and Empire in International Law,” New York University School of Law, March
13-15, 2008.
“Law as a Component in National and Regional Identity, Political Engagement and Struggle” comments for the
“Global Law in Comparative Perspective: Latin America and Beyond Workshop,” Harvard Law School, June 16 and
17, 2007.
“Noted for Dissent: The International Life of Alejandro Alvarez", for the Third World Approaches to
International Law (TWAIL) III Conference, Albany Law School, New York, April 20-21, 2007.
“Democratic Reforms in the Inter American System of Human Rights” for the conference “Envisioning a more
Democratic Global System” Widener University School of Law, Delaware, April 8, 2006
Comment on Professor Weiler´s Plenary Talk “The Geological Strata of International Law”, American Society of
International Law , Washington D.C. March 29, 2006.
“New International Law Thinking in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East” roundtable discussant for the
Spring Colloquium “Comparative Visions of the Public Order” sponsored by the European Law Research Center,
Harvard Law School, March 5 and 6, 2005.
“Mapping Law in Latin America” roundtable discussant for the workshop “Thinking of Law in/and Latin America”,
sponsored by the European Law Research Center, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and the
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Harvard Law School Graduate Program, Harvard Law School, March 4, 2005.
“Catastrophic Moments – Rethinking International Law through Human Rights: A Proposal by Alejandro
Álvarez” for the panel “Cleavages in the Human Rights Movement” for the Harvard Human Rights Program
Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Conference, October 16, 2004.
“Othering while being Othered: the Discourse of Civilization and International Law in Latin America” presented
at the panel “International Law and its Civilizing Mission” of the Melbourne Legal Theory Workshop
International Law and its Others, Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia, June 8, 2004.
"A View of International Law and Foreign Policy from Latin America" presented as guest speaker for the Annual
GAJE (Global Alliance for Justice Education) Student/Staff lecture, University of Sydney, Faculty of Law,
Sydney, Australia, June 3, 2004.
“Law, Violence and Exceptionalism” comments presented at the New World Legal Orders Conference New
Approaches Meet New Worlds of Law , Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto, Canada, April
23-24, 2004.
“The Colluding Worlds of the Lawyer, the Scholar and the Policy Maker: A View of International Law and Foreign
Policy from the Periphery” presented at the conference in honor of Professor Richard Bilder “Speaking Law to
Power: International Law and Foreign Policy”, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 5, 2004.
“Alejandro Álvarez and the New International Law of the Twentieth Century” paper presented at the S.J. Quinney
College of Law of the University of Utah, December 5, 2002.
“Alejandro Álvarez and the Theorization of a (Latin) American International Law” paper presented at the European
Law Research Center Conference “The Globalization of Modern Legal Thought, 1850-2000,” for the panel
“Reception In International Law Before 1945: Origins Of The "Third World,” Harvard Law School, April 13, 2002.
“Completing Civilization: Constructing (Latin) American International Law in the Nineteenth Century” paper
presented at the fifth annual meeting of the Working Group on Law, Culture, and the Humanities for the panel “Uses
of the Law and the Construction of Latin American „Civilization‟ in Historical Perspective,” University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. March 9, 2002.
“From Cosmopolitanism to Globalization: Transnational Legal Theories in Latin America” for the Opening Plenary
Session of the Sixth Annual LatCrit Conference – Latina/os in the Americas: Centering North-South Frameworks in
LatCrit Theory, Gainesville- Florida, April 26, 2001.
“Making Our Particular into a Universal: The „Latin American‟ International Law of the Nineteenth Century,”
presentation for the Law School Faculty and the Institute for Legal Studies, Law School, University of WisconsinMadison, February 20, 2001.
“De la injusta esclavizacion a la debida reparación: primeras críticas a la esclavización de africanos en el caribe
colonial,” paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, Washington D.C.
September 6, 2001
“Críticos de la esclavitud del siglo XVII” paper presented at the VI International Seminar of Caribbean Studies,
Cartagena, Colombia, August 2, 2001.
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“Andrés Bello‟s Footnotes: the Nineteenth Century Insertion of Latin America in International Law” paper read for
the panel Legal Cultures of Colonialism and Nationalism, American Society for Legal History Annual Meeting,
Princeton, NJ, October 20, 2000 .
“The Forgotten 19th Century: A New History of Latin American International Law” paper read for the panel
Rethinking the Third World Tradition or Strategizing Fringes, New Scholarship in International Law Conference,
Hague Academy of International Law, The Hague, July 22, 2000.
“A New History of Latin America‟s International Law,” presentation given for the SJD Colloquium, Harvard Law
School Graduate Program, March 22, 2000.
“International Law, Identity and Culture in Nineteenth Century Colombia,” paper read for the panel Interdisciplinary
Approaches to the Study of Culture in Colombia chaired by professor Doris Sommer of Harvard University at the
Latin American Studies Association (LASA) annual meeting, Miami, March 17, 2000.
Chair for the panel “Critical Analysis and Non-Traditional Perspectives,” held at the Conference on New Approaches
to Latin American Legal Scholarship, Harvard Law School, March 11, 2000.
“The Colombian Crisis” talk given for the Panamerican Society of New England, Boston, January 31, 2000 and for
the Boston Area Consortium on Latin American Studies, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies,
Cambridge, December 7, 2000.
Chair for the conference “Writing under Fire: Freedom of Expression and the Colombian Peace Process,” held at
Harvard Law School, Human Rights Program, October 29, 1999.
“Between Civilization and Savagery: Nation Building and Latin American International Law in the Early 19th
Century,” paper read at the American Society of International Law (ASIL) 93rd Annual Meeting for the Panel “The
Heritage of the 19th Century” – Washington D.C., March 27, 1999.
“Entre la civilización y la barbarie:La formación de nación, derecho internacional y cultura en la América Latina
de principios del siglo XIX,” paper read at the Jornadas Andinas de Literatura Latinoamericana (JALLA) Cuzco, Peru, August 13, 1999 and at the Humanities Departament, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
September 3, 1999.
“Anti-Formalism in Latin America” participation at the European Law Research Center Spring Colloquium AntiFormalism About Law and the Legal Profession: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, Harvard Law School,
April 16-17, 1999.
“From the Cold War to the Drug War: History of Drug Policy in International Law,” talk for the workshop on New
Approaches to Legal Theory and Practice in Colombia, Harvard Law School, May 8, 1997.
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OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCES
Coach for the Universidad de los Andes teams participating in the Philip Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
(2006-2009), teams obtained First Place in Colombian Finals (2006-2009); World Champions 2009 (placed 1/114), the 2009
team also obtained the Alona Evans Award for Best Memorials of the International Rounds, the Stephen Schwebel Award for
Best Oralist of the Final Round (awarded to Sebastián Machado) and 5th place for the Applicant Memorials and 3rd place for
Respondent Memorial in the Baxter Award competition of the same year; 2008 (placed 36/105 in international rounds), 2007
(placed 14/100 in international rounds).
Member of the Editorial Board of the ”Revista Estudios Socio Jurídicos” Universidad del Rosario, Bogotá, since 2008.
Member of the Editorial Board of the “Revista Análisis Internacional” (RAI) Facultad de Ciencias Jurídico Políticas de la
Universidad de Bogotá “Jorge Tadeo Lozano”, Bogotá, since 2008.
Co-founder and organizer of the permanent Colombian Colloquium at Harvard: fundraised, organized and implemented a
series of talks geared to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion and participation on a variety of topics related to Colombia‟s
armed conflict and the potential for a peaceful resolution. Invited speakers have come from a variety of fields and
backgrounds such as lawyers, indigenous leaders, academics, journalists, artists, activists, and political leaders. (1997-2001)
Researcher and writer for the W.E.B. Dubois Institution for Afro-American Research for an encyclopedia project on the
African diaspora , directed by Professors Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Kwame Anthony Appiah, published as Encarta
Africana, Microsoft and Encyclopedia Africana, Perseus Book, 1998.
Contributing Editor, The Journal of Latin American Affairs, Washington D.C., 1995.
Participant in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, China, 1995.
Inter-American Institute for Human Rights, Grant for summer course on the Inter-American System of Human Rights
Protection, Costa Rica, 1995
Organization of American States Official International Observer for the March 1991 elections in El Salvador
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Latin American Studies Association –Law and Society Section, Colombia Section
American Society of International Law
LANGUAGE SKILLS
English-Spanish - fully bilingual (native fluency –oral and written- in both languages)
Portuguese, Italian and French- reading and conversational