Global Freedom of Expression

Ramiro Álvarez Ugarte

Ramiro is a professor of Constitutional Law and Social Movements at the University of Palermo in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is currently conducting field-work in Buenos Aires for his JSD dissertation at Columbia Law School.

Previously, he worked as a human rights lawyer at the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and at the Office of the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights. He has done consulting work for national and local governments in several countries of Latin America and civil society organizations from the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, the United Kingdom and Argentina.