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Ph.D. in political science from the Catholic University of Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgium) with post-doctoral studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Professor of Law, specializing in sociology of law, legal theory and constitutional law; dedicated a socio-legal research at national and international projects. He has been visiting professor at the University of Grenoble (France) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the International Institute of Sociology of Law (Spain), among others. He currently serves as professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a principal investigator and research director of the Center for Law Justice and Society DJS.

Research lines

• Comparative legal sociology
  
• Constitutional Theory
  
• History of law

Recent positionss

• Visiting Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2008-2009)
  
• Professor of Law at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia
  
• Partner and Principal Investigator Center for Law, Justice and Society since 2003.
  
• Associate Professor CERDHAP Studies Centre, Faculty of Law de4 the University of Grenoble - France
  
• Permanent columnist for the newspaper El Espectador (Saturday)
  
• Member of the Board of the Law and Society Association
  
• Member of Scientific Committee of RFIEA (Resseau Francais d'Instituts d'Etudes avancées)
  
• International Project Coordinator country: "Reinventing Social Emancipation" Directed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, University of Coimbra (Portugal) Funded by the MacArthur Foundation 1999-2003

Recent publications

- Country indomitable. About the culture of non-compliance with rules. Bogotá: Siglo of Man (in press)

- Judges without a state, Bogotá: Siglo of Man (2008)

- In co-authored with Rodrigo Cesar Roriguez Uprimny and Justice for all?, Bogotá, Editorial Norma (2006)

- Comparative Sociology of Law, Law and Social Inquiry, 31 (2005).

Recent activities

Research (University of Wisconsin)