I am an incoming Ph.D. student in Political Theory at the University of Toronto.

My research examines how legal and political judgment can incorporate a more constructive understanding of emotions in reaching optimal and normatively sound outcomes. A second strand of my work addresses questions of political legitimacy, constituent power and constitutional amendments, constitutional interpretation, and political deliberation from the standpoint of political realism — particularly as advanced by Bernard Williams.

I completed my doctoral studies (J.S.D.) at Cornell University (with a concentration minor in Philosophy) in 2026, under the supervision of Andrei Marmor and Michael Dorf (co-chairs), Samuel Moyn, Nelson Tebbe, and Emad Atiq. I received my LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2022 and my LL.B. from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogotá, Colombia) in 2013.

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