René Urueña

Guest Author

René Urueña is a professor at Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia) and Special Advisor on Complementarity to the Prosecutor of the ICC.  He works on international law, has been counsel and several times an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and served as an adviser of the Selection Committee of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Colombia). René has been a Fellow at New York University, a docent at the Institute for Global Law and Policy at the University of Harvard, and a visiting professor at the City University of New York, and at the universities of Tel-Aviv, Utah, and Helsinki. He received his LL.M. (laudatur) and his Doctor of Law (eximia cum laude) from the University of Helsinki, and hold a postgraduate degree in economics from Universidad de los Andes (Colombia).