Join the International & Comparative Law Program for our Women in International Law Speaker Series lecture, featuring Professor Alma Luz Beltran y Puga. Professor Beltran will discuss gender and sexual diversity, and how feminist and queer movements have transformed international human rights law.

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Speaker Bio

Alma Beltrán y Puga is a Professor of Law at Iberoamericana University, Mexico City, Mexico, affiliated to the Center of Critical Studies on Gender and Feminism. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Los Andes (Colombia) and a Master of Laws from Columbia University (USA), where she was a Human Rights Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. Her research focuses on gender, law and social movements in Latin America, particularly on the legal strategies of feminist movements in Colombia and Mexico to promote reproductive rights. Previously, she was a Professor of Law at University of El Rosario in Colombia, where she co-founded the gender and law research group. From 2022 to 2023, she was an affiliated researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and has been a consultant to advance gender protocols in the judiciary in Dominican Republic and the Latin American region. In 2009, she received the Romulo Gallegos Fellowship to advance women’s rights in the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. Currently, she is a member of Red Alas, a Latin American network of legal scholars working to advance gender and sexuality in legal research and education. Together with Dean Rosa Celorio, she co-edited the book Building Bridges: Contemporary Perspectives on Gender, Sexuality and International Human Rights Law, recently published by the University of El Rosario and Red Alas (2024) as an open access source. She can be found on X (formerly known as Twitter) at @almandina19.