Estephany Leon Rodriguez LL.B

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Estephany is a licensed Peruvian lawyer. She holds an LL.B. from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (summa cum laude), where she also worked as a teaching assistant. Her licensing thesis analyzed the Peruvian case of forced sterilizations and proposed a framework for addressing these human rights violations through a transitional justice lens. She is currently an Erasmus Mundus Scholar pursuing a double LL.M. in International Law at the University of Glasgow and Radboud University, as well as a Master’s in International Security at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals. She has also undertaken academic stays at Stockholm University, the University of Oslo, and Diego Portales University.

Estephany has previously served as a legal intern at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Constitutional Court of Peru, and most recently as a researcher at the PUCP Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP), where she coordinated international cooperation projects on human rights, migration, and transitional justice. Her research interests include international human rights law, transitional justice, human mobility, and gender and the law.