Soledad Bertelsen is an Assistant Professor at the Columbus School of Law. Since 2014 she has been teaching Human Rights and Constitutional Law at Universidad de los Andes (Santiago, Chile). During 2015-2017 she also served as Associate Dean for Student Affairs.

Professor Bertelsen holds a LL.M. from Harvard Law School and a J.S.D. in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame. Her doctoral dissertation titled “The margin of appreciation through the lens of subsidiarity” explored the circumstances in which the European Court of Human Rights could grant deference to member states and whether this doctrine could be applicable in the Inter-American System of Human Rights. Since then her research has focused on Regional Human Rights Systems and conflicts among fundamental rights.

For the past three years, she was also active in public debates regarding the Chilean Constitutional drafting processes, with regular appearances in newspapers, radio and online programs. She has also participated as amicus curiae and expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

 

Scholarship (in English)

A margin for the Margin of Appreciation: Deference in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, 19 International Journal of Constitutional Law 887 (2021).

“Consensus and the Intensity of Judicial Review in the European Court of Human Rights” in Rule of Law, Human Rights and Judicial Control of Power (Springer 2017)

Conscientious Objection of Health Care Providers: Lessons from the Experience of the United States, 3 Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law 121 (2013).