Laura Bernal-Bermúdez

Laura Bernal Bermúdez is a lawyer from Colombia with experience in human rights, administrative and constitutional law. She is currently on leave from her position as Assistant Professor at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana to serve as Director of Analytics at the National Agency of Legal Defense of the State in Colombia. She has worked for the Colombian government in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; for companies, in a commercial law firm; and with civil society, in Redress and Oxfam GB. She finished an MSc in Human Rights from the Department of Sociology at LSE and has a DPhil in Sociology from the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on access to remedies for business involvement in human rights violations in Colombia. Particularly the role of economic actors in past atrocities during the armed conflict, and the ways in which transitional justice mechanisms could bring these actors to account.