Vanessa Vanegas

Research Fellow

vanegas@mpil.de
Tel. +49 (6221) 482-345

Main Fields of Research:

Comparative Law, Democratic Resilience, IAHRS

Academic Career:

Since 01/26: Doctoral Candidate and Research Assistant at MPIL in the Ius Constitutionale Commune en América Latina Project

09/2025 - 10/2025: Fellow at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Washington D.C., Monitoring Section

08/2024 - 05/2025: LL.M. studies at UCLA, Specialization in International & Comparative Law and Human Rights Law

02/2024: Second State Examination (Admitted to Practice in Germany)

02/2022 - 02/2024: Law Clerk at the Higher Regional Court of Berlin

• Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Agency for International Cooperation or GIZ), Project “Institutional Strengthening of the Constitutional Court in Colombia”, Bogota
• Freshfields, Antitrust and Competition Law Department, Brussels
• German Federal Foreign Office, Global Health Issues Division
• Public Prosecutor's Office, Capital Crimes Division

08/2020 - 01/2022: Research Assistant at Gleiss Lutz in the Litigation Department

03/2020: First State Examination

10/2014 - 03/2020: Legal Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin

• 2016-2018: Major and ​​​​​​​Maitrise in International Law at Paris II Panthéon-Assas University

2013: International Baccalaureate (IB) at the German School in Managua

Participation in Conferences at Home and Abroad

Honours