Caro Silva-Portero

Carolina Silva-Portero
Legal Scholar and Practitioner
2022-2023 ALARI Visiting Research Associate

Dr. Carolina Silva-Portero is a legal scholar and practitioner whose interests focus on the intersection between race and law, comparative law, race and ethnic studies, anti-discrimination law, legal history, constitutional studies, human rights, and gender. She obtained her Science of Juridical Doctor (S.J.D.) degree at Harvard Law School in 2020. Dr. Silva-Portero has served as an advisor to international and domestic human rights organizations and previously worked as a legal advisor for the Ecuadorian Congress and as a senior researcher and acting director of a government think-tank in Ecuador doing research and policy analysis on human rights and constitutional law.