Strategic litigation portfolio — representative cases (2015–2024)
Representative cases litigated before Colombia's Constitutional Court, Supreme Court of Justice, Council of State, Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), and the International Criminal Court (ICC) between 2015 and 2024. Framed here as case-based scholarship on transitional justice implementation and constitutional rights in Colombia.
Framework: this portfolio is the empirical backbone of my doctoral research agenda. Rather than a résumé of past legal practice, each case below is treated as an observation about how transitional and constitutional institutions in Colombia actually produce (or fail to produce) accountability under pressure from rights-mobilization networks.
- JEP Cases 3, 6 & 8 (Kill not in combat, violence against ethnic peoples, territorialization of the armed conflict) — Lead Counsel, Judicial Representation Office, 2023–2024. Supervised representation of 2,079+ individual and 26 collective victims; contributed to indictments of 25 army officials including five generals.
- JEP Cases 3, 8 and 9 — opening petitions — Consultant, FIDH, 2019–2021.
- Constitutional Court rulings C-590/2019, C-050/2020 — citizen interventions on the JEP Procedure Law.
- Constitutional Court rulings C-040/2020, C-069/2020 — challenge to the National Security Policy.
- Constitutional Court ruling SU-545/2023 — Indigenous community rights.
- Constitutional Court ruling SU-546/2023 — systemic violations against human rights defenders.
- Constitutional Court rulings T-087/2023, T-452/2022 — freedom of speech (through the UIS Legal Clinic).
- Council of State 201800444 — drug policy as a public health matter.
- Supreme Court of Justice 20190252 — restrictions on state force during protest.
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights — petitions on systemic violations against social leaders.
A fuller case log (30+ submissions) is available on request.