Tatiana Gos
By the time I began the MSt, I had spent several years working at the intersection of litigation and human rights in the Americas. After graduating with honours from the University of Buenos Aires Law School, I worked at Argentina's General Public Defender's Office before joining the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at the Organization of American States. There, as a Human Rights Specialist, I litigated before the Inter-American Court, managing a portfolio of contentious cases and provisional measures, and served as lead writer on the Commission’s thematic and country reports. I applied to the MSt to deepen my academic grounding and to develop a view of human rights that reached beyond the Inter-American system I knew from the inside. I wanted a programme that would extend my training, challenge me, and let me think alongside faculty and other mid-career practitioners drawn from different legal traditions.
The programme's part-time structure meant I could keep working while still spending the residential terms in Oxford. Those weeks combined intensive in-person teaching with talks, panels, and library access that served both my coursework and my dissertation. The tutors brought exceptional scholarship and strikingly varied professional backgrounds, and were as approachable over formal dinners as in class. Those dinners, held across different colleges, together with Oxford's museums and cultural life, created an atmosphere difficult to find elsewhere. What stayed with me most, though, was the student community: diverse in gender, age, geography, and professional background, and a source of exchange as rewarding personally as it was professionally.
It was during the MSt that my career shifted. I moved from institutional practice into independent consulting, and my focus widened from litigation to strategic advisory work and research. It also opened up the field of business and human rights, in which I went on to receive the 2016 Human Rights Essay Award from American University's Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. That same path led me deeper into academia: I completed a PhD in Law at Universidad Austral and recently published my first book, Políticas públicas y derechos humanos. Gobernar bajo la Constitución (Ediciones Didot, 2026).