Faculty Fellow
Olin-Searle Fellow, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School
Jorge Barrera-Rojas is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law and Rodes Fellow in Law and Religion at the Church, State & Society Program at Notre Dame Law School. He previously served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chile and the University San Sebastian, where he taught Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Justice Clinic, and International Human Rights Law. He was also a non-resident Fellow at the Stanford Law School Constitutional Law Center between 2021 and 2023.
In 2023, professor Barrera-Rojas served as Chief Counsel and Constitutional Coordinator at the office of the Majority for the Chilean Constitutional Council, the body in charge of drafting and providing Chile's new constitution, and previously worked as a Comparative and Foreign Law Counsel at the U.S. Law Library of Congress. He has practiced law for several years, first in the Chilean Congress and from 2018 to 2022 as a senior associate and later a former partner at Bofill Mir Abogados in Chile.
Barrera-Rojas has published or forthcoming work in the Texas Law Review, Illinois Law Review, and George Washington International Law Review, among others. He holds an LL.B. from Universidad de Chile (2011, with distinction), an LL.M. from UCLA School of Law (2017), and a J.S.D. from Notre Dame Law School (Cum laude) and a Ph.D. in International and European Law from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne.
