María Camila Castellanos Forero

Camila is a DPhil student in Criminology at the Centre for Criminology, supervised by Associate Professor Leila Ullrich. Her research examines Latin American feminist approaches to crime control and the notion of justice in cases of gender-based violence.

Camila holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a graduate degree in Constitutional Law from Universidad Externado de Colombia, and a joint degree in Law (LLB) and Economics (BA) from Universidad de los Andes. She was awarded the Henigson Human Rights Fellowship by Harvard Law School’s Human Rights Program, and worked in The Gambia with the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) and the Ministry of Justice on the country’s transitional justice process. In Colombia, she worked at the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Center for Reproductive Rights. Her professional and academic work has covered transitional justice, restorative justice, gender justice, and decolonial and feminist approaches to international law.