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Ángel R. Oquendo serves as the George J. and Helen M. England Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law, where he is a globally recognized authority on transnational legal systems and international litigation.
His academic credentials include a JD from Yale Law School (senior editor of the Yale Law Journal) and Harvard University degrees: AB in economics and philosophy (magna cum laude), MA, and PhD in philosophy. He clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
Professor Oquendo's research spans Transnational Law, Comparative Law, International Litigation, Commercial Law, Collective Suits, Civil Rights, European Law, and Latin American Law. His influential textbook Latin American Law (3rd edition, Foundation Press) is standard curriculum in law schools worldwide, and his forthcoming Cambridge University Press monograph From Human Rights Principles to Politics in the Americas and Beyond (2020) advances human rights discourse.
His distinguished honors include:
- Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Legal Theory Studies
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Fellowship
- Brazilian Foundation for the Improvement of Higher Education International Visiting Professor Grant
- German Academic Exchange Service Guest Faculty Fellowship
- Chilean National Commission on Scientific and Technological Research International Researcher Grant
Professor Oquendo actively engages as expert witness before U.S. and supranational tribunals while advising law firms, corporations, and public-interest organizations. His international academic footprint includes visiting professorships at Berkeley Law, Georgetown Law Center, Free University of Berlin, Hamburg University, Frankfurt University, Aix-en-Provence University, and Federal/State Universities of Rio de Janeiro. He contributes to scholarly forums including the Yale Latin American Seminar on Political and Constitutional Theory and Harvard Institute for Global Law and Policy.
