David Cordero-Heredia
David Cordero-Heredia
David Cordero-Heredia is an Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador. He has been a visiting professor at the Andean University Simón Bolívar (UASB), the University of the Americas (UDLA), and the University of Azuay (UDA). From 2018 to 2019, he co-taught the International Human Rights Clinic: Policy Advocacy at Cornell Law School as a Senior Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow. His research work deals with the interaction of social movements and the legal field with a focus on indigenous peoples. His upcoming book analyses the addition of indigenous peoples’ bills of rights in the Ecuadorian Constitutions of 1998 and 2008 as a result of indigenous movements’ engagement in contentious politics, and how the interaction of social movements, international law, state’s racial policy, and the legal system have halted the implementation and justiciability of those rights.