Pascual Cortés

VioDemos PhD candidate. Lawyer from the Universidad de Chile, Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). PhD candidate in Law at the same university.

His research interests include public law, human rights, and police studies. His doctoral dissertation, titled ‘Imagining Police Character: The Case of the Chilean Carabineros,’ explores how police institutions construct their institutional identity and to what extent this process is linked to the construction and conception of the nation-state. Using Chile as a case study, the project also aims to contribute to answering questions about the nature and role of the police, as well as their relationship with the law and the constitution.