Ramiro Alvarez Ugarte | Columbia Law School

Ramiro Alvarez Ugarte

Dissertation Title
The Politics of Rights in Delegative Democracies: A Study on Argentina

Ramiro’s scholarship focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and social movements in Latin America. His dissertation is a study on the dynamics of rights-claiming in Argentina. His initial hypothesis is that the processes through which citizens organize, demand rights and engage public officials through their own constitutional narratives must have peculiar features in Latin America, partially determined by the delegative nature of most democracies in the region. Ramiro’s work draws on his constitutional law background and builds on theories concerned with the role of ordinary citizens in constitutional interpretation. Ramiro’s supervisor is Professor Jamal Greene.

Before coming to Columbia, Ramiro taught Constitutional Law and Social Change (2011-2013) and Constitutional Law (2013-2014) at the Universidad de Palermo, in Buenos Aires. Previously, he held an assistant position at the Law School of the Universidad de Buenos Aires (2006-2008). He worked as a human rights attorney at the Association for Civil Rights (2011-2014) and at the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights (2009-2011). He has been published in peer-reviewed legal journals in Argentina on issues of constitutional law, legal mobilization and freedom of speech.

Education
J.S.D., Candidate, Columbia Law School (2014 – present)
LL.M., Columbia Law School (2009)
J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina (2003)

Research Interests
Democratic and Popular Constitutionalism
Civil Society
Politics of Rights
Judicial Review and Judicial Systems
Social Movements and Legal Mobilization

Contact
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Updated October 17, 2014