Cristián Eyzaguirre is a J.S.D. candidate at the University of Chicago Law School. He is passionate about public law from a comparative, empirical, and interdisciplinary perspective. Cristián is currently developing a research project that examines Latin America’s constitutional history over the last 200-plus years and, more specifically, the constitutional enshrinement of social rights.

Before coming to the University of Chicago Law School, he earned his J.S.M. (2022) from Stanford Law School, where he was a Knight-Hennessy Scholar and a Salzburg Cutler Fellow; and his LL.B. (2016) from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (summa cum laude).

Cristián also worked as a legal advisor to the President of the Republic at the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency of Chile, supervising the design and drafting of decrees, regulations, and legislative motions; and has been a Research Associate of the Comparative Constitutions Project since 2015.

Supervisors: Adam Chilton, Tom Ginsburg