Patricia Palacios Zuloaga

Dr. Patricia Palacios Zuloaga serves as a Lecturer at the Essex Law School, University of Essex, specializing in international human rights law with a focus on gender perspectives. Her academic appointments include teaching core courses such as Human Rights: Global Diversity and Global Challenges (HU930), International Human Rights Law: Law and Practice (LW901), and Human Rights and Women (LW918).

Academic Background:

• Licenciatura en Ciencias Juridicas y Sociales, Universidad de Chile
• LLM, Harvard Law School
• JSD, New York University School of Law
• Post-Doctoral Fellowship in International Law, London School of Economics

Dr. Palacios Zuloaga's research centers on the intersection of human rights and gender justice, particularly examining the Inter-American Human Rights System's treatment of women's rights, sexual and reproductive rights, and LGBTIQ+ rights. Her current projects investigate compliance with international human rights rulings and representation of women in human rights education. Her scholarly output reveals a consistent focus on how international adjudication impacts gender equality frameworks across Latin America and globally, with particular attention to abortion rights, transitional justice mechanisms, and discrimination jurisprudence.

Dr. Palacios Zuloaga actively supervises doctoral candidates including Matteo Bassetti (current), Paulina Jimenez Fregoso (awarded 2022), and Maria Delia Sanchez Del Angel (awarded 2022), whose theses address intersectionality in human rights adjudication and victim participation mechanisms. She secured a 2022 grant from the Society of Legal Scholars for her project 'Investigating the Challenges to Achieving Decriminalisation of Abortion through Strategic Litigation in Latin America,' reflecting her commitment to translating academic research into real-world human rights advocacy.