David Cordero-Heredia

David Cordero-Heredia is a Visiting Fellow at the Yale School of the Environment and a Professor of Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. From 2018 to 2019, he served as a Senior Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Law School, where he co-taught the International Human Rights Clinic: Policy Advocacy. His research examines the interaction between social movements and the law, with a particular focus on the implementation of the rights of nature and the participation of Indigenous peoples.

At Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Professor Cordero-Heredia has taught Constitutional Law, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Social Movements and the Law, Sociology of Law, Inter-American Human Rights System, Constitutional Litigation, Human Rights Clinic, and International Human Rights.

He is also a dedicated human rights advocate, representing Indigenous peoples from Ecuador and Colombia before the Inter-American Human Rights System. In 2022, he was part of the legal team that brought the case of the Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation, Tagaeri and Taromenane, before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.