Mariana Velasco Rivera

Dr. Mariana Velasco Rivera is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Göttingen under the Alexander von Humboldt Chair of Comparative Constitutionalism held by Prof. Dr. Ran Hirschl. She earned her J.S.D. (2019) and LL.M. from Yale Law School, and her LL.B. from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM).

• Education: J.S.D. and LL.M. from Yale Law School, LL.B. from ITAM

Her research focuses on comparative constitutional law and politics, particularly constitutional theory and constitutional change. Her doctoral dissertation explores Mexico’s high formal constitutional amendment rate (1917-2017), introducing a theory centered on the "political construction of amendment difficulty," emphasizing factors like party systems, constitutional culture, and political actor decisions. She is currently expanding this work through comparative case studies in the United States.