Max Weber Fellow
Department of Law
Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies
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Dr Francisco-José Quintana is a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute. He also serves as Associate Editor at the European Journal of International Law. Francisco is a legal scholar interested in the politics, history, and theory of international law and global governance. His current research studies 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 history of human rights in Latin American international legal thought, which he is developing into a book.Francisco’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in multiple edited volumes and journals including the European Journal of International Law, the American Journal of International Law, and the Journal of the History of International Law. He has recently co-edited the special issue ‘Bogotá at 75’, forthcoming in the Journal of the History of International Law (2024). Francisco holds a PhD in Law from the University of Cambridge (approved without corrections), an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (where he obtained two Dean’s Scholar prizes), an LLM 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 was previously a Research Associate at the Geneva Graduate Institute and a fixed-term Lecturer at UTDT, and has also taught at other universities including Cambridge. Francisco has been a Gates Cambridge Scholar, a Chevening Scholar, a Fulbright Scholar, and a De Fortabat Fellow.