Location: Ernest Rutherford 262
Country of origin: Mexico
Supervisors:
Primary Supervisor:Ann Brower
Co-Supervisor:Elizabeth Macpherson
Additional Supervisor:Lindsey MacDonald
Research Interests
- The relationships between people-place and the law.
- The rights of Indigenous peoples and human rights.
- Comparative law.
- Environmental resistance movements and decolonisation in Latin America.
Working thesis title
Decolonising Indigenous Peoples’ Territories. A comparative analysis of the legal persons: Urewera Forest, New Ƶappand Atrato River, Colombia.
Personal Interests
Long distance cycling, rock climbing, tramping, mountaineering.
Campus Life
UC Doctoral scholarship
- Project: Policy and legislation for Environmental-Based Management. Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge.Research collaboration 2021. New Zealand
- United Nations Harmony with Nature. Experts Network.
- Project Riverine Rights. Oslo Metropolitan University.Young professional 2021.Scholarship recipient 2021.Norway
Academic History
LLM International Legal Studies. Environmental Law.
American University, USA.
Fulbright scholarship.
Bachelor of Law.
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. Mexico.
Bachelor of Accountancy.
Escuela Bancaria y Comercial. Mexico
Languages: Spanish (native), English (Professional), Portuguese (professional reading), Swedish (basic communication).
Publications
Elizabeth Macpherson, Stephen C. Urlich, Hamish G. Rennie, Adrienne Paul, Karen Fisher, Laura Braid, Jill Banwell,Julia Torres Ventura, Eric Jorgensen,‘Hooks’ and ‘Anchors’ for relational ecosystem-based marine management, (2021) 130Marine Policy.
Elizabeth Macpherson,Julia Torres Venturaand Felipe Clavijo Ospina,Constitutional Law, Ecosystems, and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects, (2020) 9(3) Transnational Environmental Law 1.
Mihnea Tanasescu, Macpherson, Elizabeth, Jefferson David, Torres-Ventura Julia, ‘Rights of Nature and Rivers in Ecuador’s Constitutional Court’ [2024] The International Journal of Human Rights.
Presentation
Torres Julia, Ecosystems with Legal Personhood, Decolonising Relationships? 2021 Presentation II Webinar for Young Researchers ‘Nature and Its Rights’, RIVERS ERC Project European Union
