About Jorge González-Jácome

Jorge González-Jácome is an assistant professor of law at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. His research and teaching focus on legal history, human rights, and comparative constitutional law. One of his most representative publications is a book that addresses the idea of states of exception in South America during the twentieth century, entitled Estados de Excepción y Democracia Liberal en América del Sur (Bogotá, 2015). He has published in Human Rights Quarterly and is currently writing about the political and legal ideas surrounding the rise of human rights politics in Colombia during the 1970s and 1980s.