Ricardo Pérez Manrique, President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on “Human Rights and Freedom of Expression in Latin America”

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Join the Yale MacMillan Center’s Council on Latin American & Iberian Studies, Fox International Fellowship, the Program on Peace and Development, and the Office of International Affairs for the next session of our Latin American Policy Leader series with the President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Ricardo Pérez Manrique.

Ricardo Pérez Manrique is a lawyer in Uruguay and a Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights since 2019. He was President and Minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, which he has been a member of since 2012. In 1989 he entered the judiciary in Uruguay, fulfilling a long career of more than thirty years in the Uruguayan Judiciary. He was Permanent Secretary of the Ibero-American Judicial Summit. He has been the author of several articles and publications on topics related to international human rights law, child protection, freedom of expression, among others. He teaches at various universities in Latin America and Europe.
Graduated from the University of the Republic with the title of Doctor of Law and Social Sciences in 1973; In 1974, he also revalidated his degree at the University of Buenos Aires, practicing his profession in the Argentine Republic.

This talk will be moderated by Claudia Flores, Visiting Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago School of Law as well as Director of the Global Human Rights Clinic.