Milagros (Millie) Mutsios Ramsay is a Peruvian lawyer and a J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she earned her L.L.M degree (2022). She works as a Legal Advisor to the Presidency of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. Her work entails providing legal advice on contentious cases, advisory opinions, compliance monitoring resolutions, and the drafting of the President’s judicial opinions. She also serves as focal point with other international bodies, including the European Court of Human Rights and the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, and acts as institutional liaison of the Presidency of the Court with States and other entities regarding the organization of the Court’s jurisdictional activities.
Prior to joining the Court, she practiced at a Peruvian law firm specializing in mining, environmental, and natural resources law, work that informed her subsequent appointment as Adjunct Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, where she assisted in teaching Mining Law & Economics, Effective Legal Communication, and Corporate Law. Her academic trajectory includes appointments as a Fox International Fellow at the University of British Columbia (2022–2023) and a Robina Fellow at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (2023–2024). Her research agenda examines Indigenous sovereignty through public international law and administrative mechanisms in comparative perspective, with particular attention to the regulatory governance of extractive industries, climate-related institutional design, and participatory guarantees such as free, prior, and informed consent. Her research also engages with intersections between economic, social, cultural, and environmental rights and public administration, seeking to bridge doctrinal analysis and workable governance arrangements in Latin America. Committed to public service, in 2020, she co-founded Abogadas Pro Bono—an association of women lawyers providing free legal assistance to people in need—and BOCES, a civil-society initiative devoted to biodiversity awareness and conservation in Latin America. She is an active member of international research networks on natural resources, environmental law, and human rights, and participates in cross-regional dialogues among international and regional courts.
Doctoral Committee
Professors Gerald Torres (chair), Susan Rose-Ackerman, and Douglas Kysar. Additionally, Professor Jorge E. Viñuales (University of Cambridge) acts as an independent advisor.
Education
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2022
Contact Information
milagros.mutsiosramsay@yale.edu