Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Social Science, Catholic University of Chile
Juliana Jaramillo is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work lies at the intersection of socio-legal studies, political science, and social movements, with a focus on Latin America. She holds a PhD from the University of los Andes (Colombia) and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Chile (Faculty of Social Science). Her research explores contemporary contestation of human rights and democracy, focusing on how both progressive and conservative networks use courts, legal tools, and rights discourse to promote or challenge advances in gender equality, LGBTIQ+ rights, migrants’ rights, and other protections for marginalized groups.
Juliana was a guest researcher at the Centre on Law and Social Transformation – LawTransform (University of Bergen & Chr. Michelsen Institute, Jun–Oct 2022), has been a lecturer at different universities, and is assistant editor for The Review of Democracy (CEU Democracy Institute).
Recent Publications:
Jaramillo, J., Correa, D., & Botero, S. (2026). Shifting Frames: Actors and Digital Networks in Colombia’s Anti-Gender Mobilization. Latin American Politics and Society. https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2026.10052
Botero, S., & Jaramillo, J. (2025). Los derechos de la población trans e intersex en la Corte Constitucional de Colombia: Movilización e impacto judicial entre 1991-2022 [Trans and Intersex Rights in Colombia’s Constitutional Court: Mobilization and Judicial Impact Between 1991 and 2022]. In G. Pereira & C. Smulovitz (Eds.), El uso del derecho como herramienta de transformación en América Latina (352-395). Editorial Dejusticia. https://doi.org/10.51438/DJgabriel2025
Jaramillo, J. (2024), Legal Mobilization Networks and the LGBT Rights Revolution in Colombia (1992–2022): Using Litigation and Amicus Curiae Briefs in Rights Struggles. Journal of Human Rights Practice, 27(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huae030
Jaramillo, J. (2024), La Corte Constitucional de Colombia y el reconocimiento legal de la identidad de género: redes de movilización legal e impacto judicial [Colombia’s Constitutional Court and the Legal Recognition of Gender Identity: Legal Mobilization Networks and Judicial Impact]. Revista Derecho del Estado, 60, 29–62. https://doi.org/10.18601/01229893.n60.03
Jaramillo, J. (2024): La movilización legal desde arriba: La Corte Constitucional de Colombia y la participación de amicus curiae en el litigio por los derechos LGBT [Legal Mobilization From Above. Colombia’s Constitutional Court and Amicus Curiae Participation in LGBT Rights Litigation]. Oñati Socio-Legal Series, 14(3), 759–785. https://doi.org/10.35295/osls.iisl.2002
Côrtes, A., & Jaramillo, J. (2024): Legal Opportunity Structure and Legal Battles Over Sex Education and LGBTQ Students in Brazil and Colombia. Revista Direito GV, 20(e2432), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1590/2317-6172202432
Current projects:
Legal Battles Across Borders: Transnational Legal Mobilization Networks for Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America. Fondecyt Postdoctorado 2026, Chile. [Principal investigator].
The Right Against Rights: An International Workshop on Legal Countermobilization in Latin America. Law & Society Association Grant [Co-coordinator].
The Rise of the Right-Against-Rights & Global (Dis)Order in Latin American and Beyond, University of Oxford, The British Academy. The British Academy. [Research assistant].