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Alexandra Huneeus

Assistant Professor of Law

Huneeus, Alexandra

E-mail: huneeus@wisc.edu
Office: 975 Bascom Mall, Office 7110

Education:
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley
J.D. Berkeley Law (Boalt Hall)
B.A. University of California, Berkeley

Teaching Areas:
Human Rights Law
International Law
Latin American Law
Law & Society

Research Interests:
Judicial politics; courts and human rights; transitional justice; legal cultures; the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Biography

Alexandra Huneeus studies judicial politics, human rights and legal cultures in Latin America. She teaches public international law, sociology of law, human rights, and Latin American law.

Before joining the UW faculty in 2007, Professor Huneeus was a fellow at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law. She received her Ph.D. (2006) and her J.D. (2001)  from the University of California, Berkeley.

Professor Huneeus is the editor (with Javier Couso and Rachel Sieder), of Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America, currently under review at Cambridge University Press.  Her article Judging from a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary's Human Rights Turn (Law and Social Inquiry, forthcoming) http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1441303 will soon be published in Law and Social Inquiry, and forms part of an ongoing inquiry into the prosecution of Pinochet-era crimes.  She is also working on a project that examines the role national courts play in the Inter-American System for Human Rights. 

As a fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Berkeley Law School in 2004, she supervised students bringing a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She also worked on the case against Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Spain, through the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco. Prior to her turn to law, Professor Huneeus worked as an editor and journalist in Santiago, Chile, and in San Francisco, writing for The San Francisco Chronicle, Business Week, El Mercurio, Am"



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