I am a J.S.D. candidate at Cornell University

I work on questions about political legitimacy, constituent power & constitutional amendments, constitutional design, constitutional interpretation, and political deliberation, from the standpoint of political realism, particularly the strand proposed by Bernard Williams.
 
Another strand of my research examines the way in which legal and political judgement should incorporate a more positive understanding of emotions in coming to optimal and normatively good outcomes.

I expect to receive my J.S.D. from Cornell University (concentration minor in Philosophy) in 2026, where I am supervised by Andrei Marmor and Michael Dorf (the other committee members are Samuel Moyn, Nelson Tebbe, and Emad Atiq). I got my LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2022 and my LL.B. from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) in 2013.

My primary interests are in moral & political philosophy, moral emotions & reactive attitudes, constitutional theory, and comparative constitutional law.