Biography
Name : Nicolas Espejo Yaksic
Professional title : Professor/Human Rights Lawyer
Affiliation: Universidad Central de Chile/Corporación Interés Público/UNICEF
Country : Chile
Title of presentation : Re-imagining the Human Rights Law Clinic
Short Bio : Nicolas Espejo currently serves as a Professor of Law at the Universidad Central de Chile and Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, UNICEF Senior Legal Consultant, and founding partner of the Public Interest Foundation (www.ipublico.cl). He was co-founder and director of the Human Rights Center at Diego Portales University and Representative for the Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL) in Chile. He is a lawyer, Bachelor in Law (Diego Portales); M.St. (Oxon) and Ph.D. (Warwick).