LLB (University of Conception), DEA (Liege), LLM (Toronto), PhD candidate (Osgoode)

Amaya Alvez received her LL.B from the University of Concepcion, Chile. She was called to the Bar by the Supreme Court of Chile in 1998. She holds a D.E.A. from the Faculty of Law at the University of Liege, Belgium and a LL.M. from the University of Toronto, Canada. She is currently on leave as an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Concepcion, Chile where she taught courses on Legal History of Political Institutions in Latin America, Constitutional Law, Comparative Constitutional Law and Legal Theory.

Amaya Alvez is currently finishing her PhD dissertation at Osgoode Hall Law School working on an appraisal of the migration of constitutional mechanism of rights adjudication like proportionality analysis to Latin America.

Areas of interest: cross-fertilization of legal systems, public law, and comparative constitutional law.