Biography
Amaya Alvez-Marin is Full Professor of Law at the University of Concepción, Chile (2021), where she teaches at the Public Law and History and Philosophy of Law departments.
Professor Alvez-Marin holds a PhD in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School at York University (2012) and an LLM from the University of Toronto (2007), Canada. She also earned a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in International Relations and European Politics from the Universitè de Liège, Belgium (1997), and her Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences from the University of Concepción, Chile (1995).
She has taught at Osgoode Hall Law School and Windsor University in Canada, and at Universidad de Los Andes and Universidad EAFIT in Colombia.
Her research focuses on public law, indigenous rights, and environmental challenges, with a particular focus on constitutional law traditions of the Global South and the role(s) that international law can and cannot perform.
Professor Alvez serves as one of the principal researchers for the ANID Ring Project SALARES ATE240013 (2024-2027), which examines the spatiotemporal dynamics of lithium extraction and its socio-environmental impacts in Andean ecosystems and among the Atacameño Indigenous People. Previously, she was an Associate Researcher at the Water Research Center for Agriculture and Mining (CRHIAM) from 2013-2025 and has led various national Fondecyt research grants exploring indigenous rights regimes and international law.
Her public service includes being elected to the Chilean Constitutional Convention, which drafted a new Constitution based on the Latin American Constitutional and Indigenous Traditions that was rejected through a plebiscite (2021-2022), and afterward serving on key public policy bodies such as the Chilean Scientific Advisory Committee on Climate Change named C4 (2023-2025) and the National Public Policy Council for Decentralization (2024).