Jorge Cortés-Monroy

I'm a doctoral candidate in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at Berkeley Law. I received my law degree from the University of Chile Law School and my LL.M. from Berkeley Law. I'm qualified to practice as a barrister in Chile, where I worked at the Chilean Office of the Criminal Prosecutor. Before coming to Berkeley, I also spent a year as a visiting researcher at the University of Auckland Law School, New Zealand, conducting research on theoretical issues of fact-finding procedures in Criminal Law.

My research interests lie at the intersection of criminal law and procedure, constitutional law, and legal, social, and political theory. I'm currently working on a comparative study of the prosecutorial function and the implications that such a study may have for the debate on the democratization of the criminal justice system in the United States and abroad. Parallelly, I'm also working on methodology in legal theory and the distinction and connections between law and politics.