Publications

Peer-reviewed analysis of the institutional and political disputes surrounding the protection of human rights defenders and social leaders in post-accord Colombia. Available in English and French. Situates Colombia's protection regime within broader debates on rights mobilization, state accountability, and the implementation of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement.

Book chapter tracing how victims' rights were re-framed and contested during the legislative implementation of the 2016 Final Peace Agreement. Analyzes the gap between the victim-centered design agreed in Havana and the statutes later enacted by the Colombian Congress.

Joint policy and human rights report co-authored as international consultant for FIDH. Identifies blind spots in Colombia's transitional justice architecture regarding crimes under ICC jurisdiction, with specific attention to command responsibility, macro-criminal patterns, and the incorporation of international standards into JEP proceedings. Cited by UN bodies and international advocacy networks.

Multi-institutional policy report developing guidelines for the dismantling of paramilitary successor structures in Colombia, as mandated by the 2016 Final Peace Agreement. Co-authored analysis of institutional obligations, criminal economies, and victim-centered implementation pathways.

Human rights report documenting systemic patterns of state and paramilitary violence in the Magdalena Medio region of Colombia between 1998 and 2000. Based on victim testimony, archival research, and legal analysis. Submitted as evidentiary input in transitional justice proceedings.

Ethnographically grounded human rights report reconstructing the Wiwa Indigenous people's experience of the Colombian internal armed conflict between 1990 and 2017. Combines oral histories, archival work, and legal analysis; contributed to strategic litigation before the Constitutional Court and the Inter-American system on Indigenous rights.

Cumulative portfolio of more than thirty amicus curiae briefs, citizen interventions, and strategic-litigation submissions filed between 2016 and 2024 before Colombian high courts, the Inter-American system, and the International Criminal Court. Framed as case-based sociolegal scholarship on transitional justice, constitutional rights, and the rule of law. The individual entries above are representative; a complete list is available on request.

Interventions coordinated through the Carlos Gaviria Díaz Strategic Litigation Legal Clinic at the Industrial University of Santander (UIS), contributing to constitutional jurisprudence on freedom of expression, media regulation, and the protection of dissenting speech.

Intervention contributing to the Constitutional Court's unified-jurisprudence ruling on systemic patterns of violence against human rights defenders and social leaders. Argued for structural protection measures, accountability, and guarantees of non-repetition grounded in international human rights standards.

Constitutional Court intervention on the rights of Indigenous communities — free, prior and informed consent, territorial autonomy, and the obligations of the state in the protection of collective rights. Contributed to a unified-jurisprudence ruling in this area.

Amicus curiae briefs challenging components of Colombia's National Security Policy on human rights, militarization, and due-process grounds. Contributed to the Court's jurisprudence on the constitutional limits of security legislation.

Intervention before the Colombian Council of State arguing for the reframing of drug policy as a public health and human rights matter rather than a solely criminal-justice issue. Draws on comparative Latin American experience and on the applicant's prior fellowship research at CIDE (Mexico).

Amicus curiae brief on the constitutional and international-law limits of state force during social protest. Engaged with evidentiary standards for systemic violations and argued for protective measures tied to the right to peaceful assembly.

Constitutional Court intervention defending the rights of sex workers in the application of the National Police Statute, engaging debates on discrimination, labor rights, and the regulation of public space.

Constitutional Court interventions arguing for a victim-centered reading of the JEP (Special Jurisdiction for Peace) Procedure Law. Contributed to the Court's reasoning on victim participation, evidentiary standards, and the scope of restorative sanctions in transitional justice proceedings.