Hugo Rojas

Director of the Department of Legal Sciences and Professor of Sociology of Law and Transitional Justice at the Law School of the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and researcher of the Interdisciplinary Program of Public Policy (CIPP) of the same university. Adjunct Professor of Political Sociology and Transitional Justice at the Instituto de Ciencia Política UC and of Human Rights and Transitional Justice at the U. of California Study Abroad Program. Research Associate at Viodemos.

D. in sociology from the University of Oxford. PhD (c) in Law from the University of Salamanca. Master in Law, Anthropology and Society from the London School of Economics. His research focuses on human rights, transitional justice and modernization of justice.

He is the author of El Principio de la Multiculturalidad ( 2002) and The Question of Indifference (2022), co-author of Litigación Penal Estratégica ( 2021), Derechos Humanos y Libertad Sindical (2009), Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Chile (2022) and Cómo escribir ensayos: Manual de investigación jurídica y socio-jurídica (2024), and co-editor of Teoría Crítica del Derecho y Justicia Social en las Américas (in press).