ABOUT OBSERVAJEP

Our team

ObservaJEP is composed of a coordination and research team, with an interdisciplinary approach.

COORDINATORS
RESEARCHERS
COLLABORATIVE TEAM

Coordinators

Hartmut Rank

Coordinator

Lawyer, business mediator and publicly appointed translator for Ukrainian and Russian. He is currently Director of the Rule of Law Programme Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. His professional experience focuses on European and international law, minority rights, multilateral development policy, OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) and extrajudicial forms of dispute resolution. He has many years of regional experience in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe and the post-Soviet area.

Lucía Becerra

Coordinator

Colombian lawyer with a Master's degree in International Studies from the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Currently, she is Project Coordinator at the Rule of Law Programme Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

Ana Idárraga

Coordinator

Lawyer from the Universidad de La Sabana, holds a M.A. in Criminal Law and International Justice from Kennedy University (Argentina) and the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), and a M.A. in International Law from the Universidad de La Sabana. She was selected as a young researcher for peace by the Ministry of Science and Technology. She has experience in research and consulting for public and private entities in the areas of international human rights law, international humanitarian law, international criminal law and transitional justice. She is a professor at Universidad de La Sabana in the Law program and the Masters in Constitutional Law and International Law. She has served as legal advisor in cases before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and the Human Rights Committee.

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María Camila Correa Florez

Coordinator

Lawyer with a major in literature from Universidad de los Andes. She holds a PhD in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, a M.A. in European Union Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and a M.A. in Criminal Law from the Universidad de Sevilla (Spain). Currently, she is a Senior Professor and Coordinator of the Criminal Law Area of the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario; she is a member of the research line on gender and law of the same faculty, co-coordinator of ObservaJEP and adherent member of the ALAS Network.
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Research

Andrés Felipe Martín Parada

Researcher

Lawyer from Universidad del Rosario with emphasis in constitutional law and human rights. He holds a M.A. in Law with emphasis in transitional justice from the same university and a M.A. in Human Rights from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. He is currently pursuing his doctoral studies at the Universidad del Rosario and is a researcher and professor at the same institution. He has worked as a consultant in the construction of institutional policies related to gender-based violence, discrimination, in the implementation of the National Human Rights Plan and as a specialized analyst at the United Nations Development Program - UNDP.

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Michelle Infante

Researcher

Lawyer from the Universidad de La Sabana and scholarship student of the Master's program in International Law at the same institution. She was an intern at the Public Interest and Human Rights Legal Clinic at Universidad de La Sabana. She has research experience in international human rights law and transitional justice. She has special interest in gender and feminism issues.
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Jana Speidel

Researcher

Political scientist/Internationalist with a M.A. in Peace Studies and International Politics from the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, with a research focus on Colombian transitional justice. Currently Program Assistant of the Rule of Law Programme Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
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Paulina Rivera

Researcher

Lawyer from the Universidad del Rosario, with a specialization in Human Rights, Justice and Democracy. From 2019 to 2020 she was part of the Legal Clinic on Cross-Border Human Mobility, where she provided legal assistance to the population in need of international protection. In turn, in 2020 she was an intern at the Pro Bono Institute of Brazil where she supported the coordination of legal strategies for the migrant and refugee population, indigenous communities located on the border of Brazil and Venezuela and the prison population. During the second semester of 2021, she served as an intern in the Chamber for Amnesty or Pardon of the SJP. And, from the last quarter of 2022 to the present, she has been working as a consultant for the feminist organization Women's Link Worldwide.

Ana María Moya

Researcher

Lawyer from the Universidad de La Sabana and student of the specialization in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law at the Universidad Externado. She has worked as a research assistant in matters related to international human rights law, international humanitarian law and transitional justice. She worked as an intern at the Legal Clinic of the Universidad de La Sabana and as a human rights technician for the Procuraduría Delegada con Funciones de Intervención before the SJP. She was a lecturer at the Universidad de La Sabana and participated in the I Iberoamerican competition of International Human Rights Law, obtaining recognition as the best speaker.

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Santiago Ramírez Jaramillo

Researcher

Abogado de la Universidad EAFIT, Especialista en Derecho Procesal Penal de la Universidad Externado de Colombia y estudiante de la Maestría en Derecho Internacional de la Universidad de La Sabana. Se ha desempeñado como representante de víctimas ante la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz; tiene experiencia como asesor y representante de personas y organizaciones en el litigio de peticiones ante el Sistema Interamericano de Protección de Derechos Humanos, y ha sido profesor de la Universidad EAFIT y en la Escuela de Investigación Criminal de la Policía Nacional en cursos de Justicia Transicional, DDHH y DIH.

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Collaborative team

María Paula Palacios

Miembro Colaborador

Estudiante de Derecho de la universidad libre, integrante de la Generación v+, red juvenil de aliados de la comisión para el esclarecimiento de la verdad (CEV), participa en la creación e implementación de pedagogías para la construcción de paz y participación democrática dirigida a juventudes.

Andrés Felipe Morales

Miembro Colaborador

Abogado de la Universidad de los Andes con un LLM cum laude del programa avanzado de Derecho Internacional Público de la Universidad de Leiden, Países Bajos. Además cuenta con una especialización en Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos de la Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio y estudios avanzados en Derecho Penal Internacional del Instituto Internacional de Siracusa de Justicia Penal y Derechos Humanos y el Instituto de Investigación en Crimen Interregional y Justicia de las Naciones Unidas (UNICRI). Actualmente hace parte de los equipos de representación legal de víctimas de los casos Al Hassan y Katanga ante la Corte Penal Internacional. Previamente se desempeñó como asesor legal en los despachos de la Sala de Amnistía o Indulto y la Sala de Reconocimiento de Verdad y Responsabilidad de la Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz. También fue asesor legal en la Fiscalía del Mecanismo Residual para los Tribunales Internacionales (IRMCT) y como investigador en el Kalshoven-Gieskes Forum.

Luis Miguel Montufar

Miembro Colaborador

Abogado de la Universidad del Rosario, en proceso de su doble titulación en Ciencia Política y Gobierno en la misma. Cuenta con varios diplomados en Derecho Penal y Derecho Internacional Humanitario. Cuenta con experiencia laboral en firmas relacionadas con temas de DIH, Derecho Penal Internacional. Hizo parte del Semillero de Investigación de ObservaJEP, desarrollando temas de Justicia Transicional, Derecho Internacional Humanitarios.

Juana Acosta López

Collaborative member

Lawyer from the Universidad Javeriana; with a M.A. in Human Rights and Democratization from the Universidad Externado; LLM in International Legal Studies from New York University and she's a PhD candidate at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She has worked as a consultant in the private and public sector in matters related to international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, transitional justice and constitutional law, among others. She was President and Vice-President of the Colombian Academy of International Law. In 2020 she was the first Colombian appointed member of the Editorial Committee of the International Review of the Red Cross. She has been a professor of different subjects related to international law, legal argumentation and litigation strategies, in different national and foreign universities. She is currently an associate professor at the Universidad de La Sabana, co-director of the research group in international law at the same institution and a judge of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace.

Juan Francisco Soto

Collaborative member

Lawyer from the Universidad del Rosario. Master cum laude of the advanced program of Public International Law of the University of Leiden, The Netherlands. He is a professor at the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the Universidad del Rosario where he is the Coordinator of the Legal Theory Area. He has been a lawyer and consultant for the Colombian Commission of Jurists, where he has worked on transitional justice and human rights issues, and was part of the land restitution project awarded the Franco-German Human Rights Award "Antonio Nariño" in 2017. He has also worked in organizations such as the Center for Justice and International Law -CEJIL- and as a consultant for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime-UNODOC.

Carlos Arévalo

Collaborative member

Lawyer from the Universidad de La Sabana with a M.A. in International Law (LLM in international legal studies) from the New York University (NYU). Professor of International Law and Human Rights at the Universidad de La Sabana. Former Assistant Judge of the Constitutional Court. Has acted as expert witness and agent before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He has also been invited to intervene as an academic before the Colombian Constitutional Court and the Congress of the Republic. He was President of the Colombian Academy of International Law for two terms. He was a Fellow of the Institute for International Law and Justice of NYU before the International Law Commission of the United Nations in Geneva. He is currently the Director of the Department of International Law and the Director of Faculty and Research of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of Universidad de La Sabana and was appointed as Dean of the Faculty as of August 1, 2022.

Alejandro Aponte

Collaborative member

Lawyer from the Universidad Externado de Colombia with studies in philosophy at the Universidad Nacional. He holds a PhD in criminal law and philosophy of law from the University of Saarland, Saarbrücken, Germany. Since 2002 he has been working as Colombian expert for the Latin American Study Group on International Criminal Law, coordinated by the Konrad-Adenauer Foundation. Advisor and consultant for national and international agencies. He is an advisor to the International Center for Transitional Justice, ICTJ in its task of supporting the Special Jurisdiction for Peace and the various actors of the transitional model. He currently serves as director of the criminal law and transitional justice department of the Faculty of Law and Political Science of the Universidad de La Sabana.