Lorena Bazay Dulanto earned her law degree from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and her LLM in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame’s Center for Civil and Human Rights. Following her graduation from law school, she held a position at PUCP’s Institute for Democracy and Human Rights (IDEHPUCP), where her research encompassed various international law subjects, including the crime of aggression, multinational corporations and human rights, and the Right to Water. Additionally, she served as a teaching assistant for several public international law courses at the PUCP Faculty of Law.
Lorena has collaborated with the International Commission of Jurists’ Bangkok regional office, where she engaged in legal research, monitored country situations, and advocated for the establishment of an ASEAN human rights mechanism. Furthermore, she has provided consulting services to several organizations, including the Organization of American States, Polaris Project, Equis - Justicia para las Mujeres, the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute, and the Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación de México. Her contributions include co-authoring and editing several publications, primarily focusing on the prevention of torture.
Currently based in Mexico City, Lorena Bazay Dulanto is actively involved in addressing various human rights issues, including private litigation before the Inter-American Human Rights System. She co-founded Laboratorio de Litigio Estructural, A.C., where she serves as Project Coordinator.
During her time at the University of Notre Dame, Lorena will conduct research on reparations for human rights violations.
Lorena Bazay Dulanto is a policy practitioner affiliated with the Kellogg Institute’s Notre Dame Violence and Transitional Justice Lab (V-TJLab).