Julia Torres Ventura
Supervisors:
Primary Supervisor: Ann Brower
Co-Supervisor: Elizabeth Macpherson
Additional Supervisor: Lindsey MacDonald
Research Interests
- The relationships between people-place and the law.
- The rights of Indigenous peoples and human rights.
- Comparative law.
- Environmental resistance movements and decolonisation in Latin America.
Working thesis title
Decolonising Indigenous Peoples’ Territories. A comparative analysis of the legal persons: Urewera Forest, New Zealand and Atrato River, Colombia.Personal Interests
Long distance cycling, rock climbing, tramping, mountaineering.
Campus Life
UC Doctoral scholarship
- Project: Policy and legislation for Environmental-Based Management. Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge.Research collaboration 2021. New Zealand
- United Nations Harmony with Nature. Experts Network.
- Project Riverine Rights. Oslo Metropolitan University. Young professional 2021.Scholarship recipient 2021. Norway
Academic History
LLM International Legal Studies. Environmental Law.
American University, USA.
Fulbright scholarship.
Bachelor of Law.
Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas. Mexico.
Bachelor of Accountancy.
Escuela Bancaria y Comercial. Mexico
Languages: Spanish (native), English (Professional), Portuguese (professional reading), Swedish (basic communication).
Publications
Elizabeth Macpherson, Stephen C. Urlich, Hamish G. Rennie, Adrienne Paul, Karen Fisher, Laura Braid, Jill Banwell, Julia Torres Ventura, Eric Jorgensen, ‘Hooks’ and ‘Anchors’ for relational ecosystem-based marine management, (2021) 130 Marine Policy.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104561
Elizabeth Macpherson, Julia Torres Ventura and Felipe Clavijo Ospina, Constitutional Law, Ecosystems, and Indigenous Peoples in Colombia: Biocultural Rights and Legal Subjects, (2020) 9(3) Transnational Environmental Law 1.