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David Cordero-Heredia | |
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| Education | Cornell Law School Cornell University Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar University of Alcalá Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador |
| Occupations | Lawyer, law professor |
| Employer(s) | Yale University Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador |
David Cordero-Heredia is an Ecuadorian lawyer and law professor whose work focuses on human rights, the rights of Indigenous peoples, environmental justice, and the rights of nature.[1] He is a visiting professor at the Yale School of the Environment and a professor of law at the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador (PUCE).[1][2] He has represented victims and Indigenous organizations in proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.[3][4]
Cordero-Heredia received an LL.B. from the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, a master's degree in constitutional law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, and an LL.M. in Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law from the University of Alcalá. He subsequently received an LL.M. from Cornell Law School in 2014 and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) from Cornell University in 2018.[1][5]
His doctoral research examined the relationship between social movements and legal change, with particular attention to the Ecuadorian Indigenous movement.[6]
Academic career
[edit]Cordero-Heredia joined the faculty of the Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador, where he has taught courses including constitutional law, Indigenous peoples' rights, sociology of law, the Inter-American human rights system, and human rights litigation. He has also held administrative and clinical positions at PUCE, including director of its Human Rights Clinic, director of its clinical program, and director of its law journal.[1]
From 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Law School, where he co-taught the International Human Rights Clinic: Policy Advocacy.[1] From 2022 to 2025, he was a visiting scholar in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Cornell University's Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.[7]
He later joined the Yale School of the Environment as a visiting professor, affiliated with the Yale Center for Environmental Justice and the Environmental Leadership Training Initiative. His research at Yale has focused on social movements, Indigenous peoples, environmental justice, and the implementation of the rights of nature.[1]
Human rights litigation
[edit]Cordero-Heredia has participated in litigation before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights concerning judicial independence, disability rights, Indigenous peoples, and other human rights issues.
Together with Ramiro Ávila Santamaría, he represented former members of Ecuador's Supreme Court in Case of the Supreme Court of Justice (Quintana Coello et al.) v. Ecuador, decided by the Inter-American Court in 2013.[4] The two lawyers also represented the victims in Case of the Constitutional Tribunal (Camba Campos et al.) v. Ecuador, decided the same year.[8]
Cordero-Heredia later represented victims in Guachalá Chimbo et al. v. Ecuador, together with lawyers from the PUCE Human Rights Center and the Regional Foundation for Human Rights Advisory (INREDH).[9] He was also one of the representatives of the victim in Cortez Espinoza v. Ecuador, decided in 2022.[10]
In the proceedings concerning the Tagaeri and Taromenane peoples, Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation in the Ecuadorian Amazon, Cordero-Heredia was appointed as one of the lawyers representing the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), together with Mario Melo Cevallos.[3]
Since 2019, he has also represented the victim during the compliance stage of Gonzales Lluy et al. v. Ecuador. A 2024 resolution of the Inter-American Court identified Cordero-Heredia as the victim's representative and stated that he had exercised the representation exclusively since March 2019.[11]
Selected publications
[edit]- Cordero-Heredia, David; Koeppen, Nicholas (2021). “Oil Extraction, Indigenous Peoples Living in Voluntary Isolation, and Genocide: The Case of the Tagaeri and Taromenane Peoples.” Harvard Human Rights Journal. 34 (1).
- Cordero-Heredia, David (2025). “Ejecución de decisiones de organismos internacionales a través del derecho constitucional: Análisis de la jurisprudencia de la acción por incumplimiento de la Corte Constitucional del Ecuador.” Revista de Estudios Jurídicos Cálamo. 22 (22): 81–104. doi:10.61243/calamo.22.443.
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yale School of the Environment, “David Cordero-Heredia,” Faculty Directory, accessed 12 September 2026.
- ↑ Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, “David Cordero Heredia,” Research Portal, accessed 12 September 2026.
- 1 2 Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Tagaeri and Taromenane Indigenous Peoples v. Ecuador, Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment of 4 September 2024, Series C No. 537, para. 9.
- 1 2 Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Case of the Supreme Court of Justice (Quintana Coello et al.) v. Ecuador, Preliminary Objection, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment of 23 August 2013, Series C No. 266.
- ↑ Cornell Law School, “Alumni Public Service Award Winners,” listing David Cordero-Heredia, LL.M. ’14, J.S.D. ’18, 2022.
- ↑ Yale School of the Environment, “David Alberto Cordero Heredia, J.S.D.,” curriculum vitae, accessed 12 September 2026.
- ↑ Cornell University Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, “David Cordero-Heredia,” Visiting Scholar ’22–’25, accessed 12 September 2026.
- ↑ Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Case of the Constitutional Tribunal (Camba Campos et al.) v. Ecuador, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment of 28 August 2013, Series C No. 268.
- ↑ Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Guachalá Chimbo et al. v. Ecuador, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment of 26 March 2021, Series C No. 423.
- ↑ Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Cortez Espinoza v. Ecuador, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations and Costs, Judgment of 18 October 2022, Series C No. 468.
- ↑ Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Gonzales Lluy et al. v. Ecuador, Monitoring Compliance with Judgment, Resolution of 2 July 2024, note 3.
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