Felipe Lyon

Felipe Lyon Errazuriz is a Chilean attorney and professor specializing in Constitutional Law and Legal Theory. He earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Law from Pontificia Universidad Católica (2017), where he was elected President of the Student Association (2015) and graduated with distinction. He also holds a Master's Degree in Political Studies (Universidad de los Andes, 2021) and an LLM in International Human Rights (Notre Dame Law School, 2024). Between 2021 and 2024, he was an associate professor at Universidad San Sebastián, where he taught Constitutional Law, Legal Theory, and Human Rights. He also has extensive experience as a legal advisor, serving in two constitution-making processes and in the Chilean National Congress. He was also the Director of the Constitutional Studies Program at Fundacion Jaime Guzman, a Chilean think tank. Felipe's work and research focus on human rights theory and interpretation, free speech in the digital environment, government systems, constitution-making processes, and the role of Constitutional Courts. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at Notre Dame Law School, under the supervision of Professor Paolo G. Carozza. His dissertation uses the theory of constitutional duties as a framework to assess tech companies' accountability for defamatory content created on their generative platforms.