Nicolas Espejo Yaksic

Dr. Nicolás Espejo Yaksic is Researcher at the Centre for Constitutional Studies (CEC) of the Supreme Court of Mexico; Visiting Fellow, Exeter College, University of Oxford and Member of the Leiden's Children Rights Observatory, Leiden University. He has worked for more than 25 years in the field of human rights, both as an academic and activist, in Latin America and for the United Nations System. He is the editor (with Fabiola Lathrop) of the book Discapacidad Intelectual y Derecho (Intellectual Disability and The Law), Thomson Reuters & Legal Publishing, Santiago de Chile, 2019.

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Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights: Changes and Challenges

Legal Capacity, Disability and Human Rights: Changes and Challenges

The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities recognizes in Article 12 the equal right to exercise legal capacity without discrimination and imposes on States parties a duty to adopt appropriate measures to provide ...
Mendoza v Argentina: Against the life imprisonment of children

Mendoza v Argentina: Against the life imprisonment of children

In Mendoza et al. v. Argentina, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) has determined that life sentences against children constitute a breach of the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR). In an historic decision that ...
Parents’ sexual orientation and children rights– coming out in Chile and the ICHR: Atala Riffo v Chile

Parents’ sexual orientation and children rights– coming out in Chile and the ICHR: Atala Riffo v Chile

Atala Riffo e hijas vs. Chile, a case in which the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (ICHR) condemned the stigmatisation and stereotyping of homosexual parents, is one of two landmark decisions by the court this year concerning ...