Daniel Bonilla Maldonado is a Visiting Professor of Law and Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School and a Full Professor at the Universidad de los Andes (Colombia). Bonilla Maldonado previously served as a Senior Visiting Fellow at two Max Planck Institutes. He has held additional visiting appointments at more than 15 universities around the world, including Science Po - Paris, the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain), Fordham Law School, the Universidade Nacional de Brasília, and the Universidad de Buenos Aires. In 2011, Bonilla Maldonado received a Robina Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowship in International Human Rights from Yale Law School. His other honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, which he completed from 1998 to 2001, and the 2004 Special Faculty Distinction for Excellence in Teaching from the Universidad de los Andes. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Legal Barbarians: Modern Comparative Law, Identity and the Global South and Constitutionalism of the Global South. Bonilla Maldonado received an LL.B. from the Universidad de los Andes in 1993. He earned an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Yale Law School in 1999 and 2005, respectively.
