Jorge Barrera-Rojas is an Olin-Searle Fellow and Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. His work focuses on comparative constitutional law, education law, law and religion, and international human rights.
Before joining Yale, Barrera-Rojas served as a visiting assistant professor of law and Rodes Fellow in Law and Religion at the Church, State & Society Program at Notre Dame Law School, where he taught courses in torts, education law, and international religious liberty. He was previously a non-resident fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center.
Barrera-Rojas has held significant public service roles, including chief counsel and constitutional coordinator for the majority in the Chilean Constitutional Council — the body tasked with drafting Chile’s new constitution — and comparative and foreign law counsel at the U.S. Law Library of Congress. He also practiced law in the Chilean Congress and as a senior associate and partner at Bofill Mir Abogados in Chile.
His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Texas Law Review, Illinois Law Review, and George Washington International Law Review, among others. Barrera-Rojas holds an LL.B. from Universidad de Chile (with distinction), an LL.M. from UCLA School of Law, 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 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
