Research

The gap between normative frameworks and effective rights protection

This research trajectory spans law, governance, technology, and democratic institutions, with a throughline running from a 2012 study on social networks and the infringement of fundamental rights to current work on information governance and institutional accountability. It also carries an ongoing strand — developed via a Master's thesis at Uppsala University and a decade in and around the Bolivian state — on transnational law and socio-environmental rights in Latin America.

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Focus Areas

Where the work concentrates

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Technology, Information & Democratic Accountability

A throughline running from an early 2012 study on social networks and the infringement of fundamental rights to current work on information governance, platform and algorithmic accountability, and the digital pressures now facing democratic institutions.

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Law, Governance & Public Institutions

Constitutional design, legal pluralism, and the standing of indigenous legal systems within the Bolivian plurinational state — the foundational thread running through the earliest research, and the throughline into current work on public institutions and subnational governance.

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Transnational Law & Investment Arbitration

The mechanisms — and gaps — of accountability once disputes cross borders, from the enforcement of arbitral awards to the accountability structures available when domestic remedies are insufficient.

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Socio-Environmental Rights & Extractive Governance

One continuing strand of this work: how state authority, corporate power, and community rights interact in the extractive sector — informed by direct experience inside a state gas enterprise and alongside civil-society conservation efforts in the Gran Chaco.