Francisco-José Quintana

Francisco-José Quintana is a legal scholar interested in the politics, history, and theory of international law and global governance. He will defend his Ph.D. in Law thesis at the University of Cambridge in 2023. He holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (where he obtained two Dean’s Scholar prizes), an LL.M. in Public International Law from the London School of Economics and Political Science (with Distinction), and a Degree in Law (Abogacía) from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). He is Associate Editor of EJIL:Talk!

He was previously a Research Associate at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a fixed-term Lecturer at UTDT, and has also taught international law at undergraduate and graduate levels at other universities including Cambridge.
Starting September, 2023, Francisco will be a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (EUI). He will study the potential of employing regional frameworks as leverage for international legal change in the interests of the Global South. This project builds on his doctoral research on the rise of human rights in inter-American law and organisation, which he intends to develop into a book. Francisco’s work has been published in journals such as the European Journal of International Law and the American Journal of International Law. He has been a Gates Cambridge Scholar, a Chevening Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and a De Fortabat Fellow.