Global Fellow
Thalia Viveros Uehara is an HGHI–Salata Burke Climate and Health Fellow at Harvard University, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She previously held a postdoctoral position at Tilburg University.
Her research spans public international law, human rights, and environmental and climate change law, with a focus on international adjudication, health, and inequality. Combining doctrinal and socio-legal approaches, she examines how courts and legal institutions make climate-related harms legally cognisable and shape responsibility, protection, and remedies. Her work focuses particularly on the Inter-American Human Rights System, climate litigation, and populations experiencing structural disadvantage.
Her scholarship has appeared in Transnational Legal Theory, Health and Human Rights, the Journal of Human Rights Practice, Revista Direito GV, and World Comparative Law, as well as in leading edited volumes. She is also a reporter and commentator for Oxford Reports on International Law, including on the Inter-American Court’s Climate Emergency Advisory Opinion and La Oroya v. Peru.
She holds a PhD from the University of Massachusetts Boston, an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an LL.B. from the University of Veracruz. Earlier in her career, she served as a parliamentary adviser to the Mexican Senate and held senior positions at Mexico’s National Human Rights Commission.
Website:
https://www.mpil.de/en/pub/institute/personnel/academic-staff/viveros-uehara-thalia.cfm