Professor Dr. Jorge Barrera Rojas

Biography

Jorge Barrera-Rojas is an Associate Research Scholar and Olin-Searle Fellow at Yale Law School, focusing on comparative constitutional law, education law, religion, and international human rights. Prior to joining Yale, he served as a visiting assistant professor and Rodes Fellow at the Notre Dame Law School, where he taught courses in torts, education law, and international religious liberty. He was also a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. Notably, Barrera-Rojas held significant public service roles, including chief counsel and constitutional coordinator for the majority Chilean Constitutional Council, a body tasked with drafting Chile’s new constitution, as well as serving as a comparative foreign law counsel at the U.S. Law Library of Congress. He has significant experience in private practice within the Chilean legal system as a senior associate partner at Bofill Mir Abogados. His scholarship has been featured in upcoming and established journals like the Illinois Law Review and the George Washington International Law Review.

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