Luz helena Orozco y Villa
#constitutions #rights #tech #family #feminisms
I am a public law scholar working at the intersection of constitutional law, regulation, and emerging technologies. I am also a non-resident scholar at the Baker Institute of Public Policy, Rice University, and a graduate teaching assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII). Before joining academia, I served as a career clerk for the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice and worked as a research advisor at the Gender Equality Program of the Federal Judicial Council.I hold a DPhil (PhD) in Law from the University of Oxford and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School, where I studied as a Fulbright and Charles B. Bretzfelder Constitutional Law scholar. My LL.B. is from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. My doctoral thesis focused on the constitutionalisation of the digital environment - specifically the case of online platforms and content moderation. In addition to Internet governance, I am interested in AI and the legal and social implications of the use of algorithmic systems in public and private decision-making, particularly in fragile democracies. My work is directed to identifying and strengthening the institutional frameworks and conditions that enable the effective protection of the rule of law, democracy, and human rights.I teach, or contributed to, courses on Law and Technology, Internet Technologies and Regulation, International Human Rights Law, Family Law, and Gender Justice to undergraduate and graduate students at various universities. My scholarship on reproductive rights, co-authored with José Ramón Cossío and Luisa Conesa, was cited by the Mexican Supreme Court in the decision which held that criminalising abortion at any stage of pregnancy is unconstitutional.