Law School Student Teaching in Chile

December 18, 2017

Marianne González Le Saux, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University in the field of Latin American history, is currently teaching legal history at Universidad Alberto Hurtado’s Law School. She is also a member of two local networks of researchers in Santiago: The Grupo de Estudios Historia y Justicia, and the recently created Grupo de Derecho y Sociedad.

Marianne’s research is focused on the cultural and social history of the law in Latin America, especially on the history of legal aid and the legal profession in twentieth-century Chile. Before starting her studies at Columbia in 2012, she graduated as a lawyer from the Universidad de Chile’s Law School and worked for two years in the University’s Human Rights Center, teaching and researching topics related to transitional justice, democracy and human rights in Latin America. She has been awarded the Fulbright Foreign Student Grant, the CONICYT- Becas Chile Fellowship from the Chilean government, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) DPDF fellowship, the SSRC-IDRF fellowship, and Columbia's Richard Hofstadter fellowship.