Hugo Rojas

Director of the Department of Legal Sciences and Professor of Sociology of Law and Transitional Justice at the Alberto Hurtado University Law School and researcher atthe Interdisciplinary Program in Public Policy(CIPP) at the same university. Adjunct Professor of Political Sociology and Transitional Justice at the UC Institute of Political Science and of Human Rights and Transitional Justice at the University of California Study Abroad Program. Researcher atViodemosand Collaborator IMFD.

PhD in Sociology from the University of Oxford. PhD in Law (Rule of Law and Global Governance) from the University of Salamanca. Master's degree in Law, Anthropology, and Society from the London School of Economics. Master student Management and Public Policy at Adolfo Ibáñez University. Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His research focuses on human rights, transitional justice, historical archives, and the modernization of justice.

He is the author ofEl Principio de la Multiculturalidad(The Principle of Multiculturalism, 2002) andPast Human Rights Violations and the Question of Indifference: The Case of Chile(2022), co-author ofLitigación Penal Estratégica(Strategic Criminal Litigation, 2021), Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile(2022), andCómo escribir ensayos: Manual de investigación jurídica y socio-jurídica(2024), and co-editor ofDerechos Humanos y Libertad Sindical(2009) andTeoría Crítica del Derecho y Justicia Social en las Américas(2024).