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Ximena Soley

Research Fellow 2012-2019

Main Fields of Research:

International Tribunals; International Human Rights Law (in particular the Inter-American System); Transitional Justice; Latin American Constitutionalism; Transformative Constitutionalism

Academic Career until 2019

2012- 2019: Research Fellow at the MPIL

since 2013: Part of the research group The Exercise of Public Authority on the International, Supranational, and Domestic Levels: Reconstructing Public Law to Face the Challenges of Multilevel Governance, and of the International Graduate Program of the Cluster of Excellence "Formation of Normative Orders", Goethe University Frankfurt

2012:Legal Intern at the International Criminal Court, Chamber of Judge Odio Benito (The Hague, The Netherlands)

2010-2012: Visiting researcher at the MPIL

since 2011: Ph.D. candidate with the dissertation project entitled "Transformative Adjudication: The Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights", Goethe University Frankfurt

2009-2010 : Advisor and speechwriter at the Office of the President of the Republic of Costa Rica (Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Óscar Arias Sánchez and Laura Chinchilla Miranda) (San José, Costa Rica)

2009: Legal Intern at the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) (San José, Costa Rica)

2006-2009: Paralegal at Arias & Munoz (San José, Costa Rica)

2002-2009: Law studies in Costa Rica (Universidad de Costa Rica) and Switzerland (Université de Genève and at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)