A paper by UW Law School Assistant Professor Alexandra Huneeus, "Judging with a Guilty Conscience: The Chilean Judiciary’s Human Rights Turn," was selected for discussion at the Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop to be held February 6-7, 2009, at Princeton University.

Huneeus studies the judicialization of politics, the politics of human rights, and legal culture in Latin America. Her Ph.D. dissertation centered on the Chilean judiciary’s changing attitude towards cases of Pinochet-era human rights violations.

As a human rights fellow at the International Human Rights Clinic at Boalt Hall in 2004, Huneeus supervised students bringing a case before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The successful challenge resulted in a ruling ordering the Dominican Republic to alter its citizenship policies and practices. She also worked on the case against Augusto Pinochet in Chile and Spain, through the Center for Justice and Accountability in San Francisco.

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. from the University of California- Berkeley and her J.D. from Boalt Hall, the Berkeley Law School.

At the UW Law School, Huneeus teaches sociology of law, human rights, Latin American legal institutions, and international law.

Submitted by on January 15, 2009

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