
Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León
Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León
Senior Legal and Policy Consultant
PhD candidate in International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Anderson Javiel Dirocie De León is an international lawyer, academic, and human rights advocate specializing in Public International Law, International Human Rights Law, and International Criminal Law. He serves as the Senior Legal and Policy Consultant at Columbia Global Freedom of Expression and is a PhD candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies.
His professional experience spans multiple international courts and human rights bodies across three continents, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, and the International Criminal Court. Domestically, he served as Assistant Secretary to the President of the Electoral High Court of the Dominican Republic and as Secretary General (2020–2021) of the Latin American Council for International and Comparative Law Scholars (COLADIC-RD).
At Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, he previously worked as a Legal Researcher (2021) and later as a Legal and Program Consultant (2023–2025) before assuming his current role.
Beyond his legal practice, he is an independent member of the LGBTI+ Litigants Network of the Americas, where he also serves on its Legal Committee (2024–2026). He is a member of the Bar Association of the Dominican Republic and COLADIC-RD.
He is also active in academia, teaching a master’s-level course on Inter-American Protection of Human Rights at Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra and serving as an associate editor of the Latin American and Caribbean Journal of International Law.
His early engagement in international advocacy includes serving on UNFPA’s Youth Advisory Panel, which led to his appointment as Youth Delegate of the Dominican Republic to the Second Session of the Regional Conference on Population and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean (2015). In 2016, he became the first Latin American to be elected Student President of the International Law Students Association (ILSA), the organization responsible for administering the Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition.
He holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School (2023), an Advanced LL.M. in Public International Law from Leiden University (2018), and an LL.B. Summa Cum Laude from Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM) (2017).
He is fluent in Spanish, English, and French.