Daniela Urosa is the Founding Director of the BC Law International Human Rights Practicum, which she has led since 2019. In recognition of her contributions to innovative practical teaching in human rights, she received the BC Law 2024 Faculty Prize for Innovation in Pedagogy, which she shares with Professor Daniel Kanstroom.
Prior to her work with the International Human Rights Practicum, Urosa was a Visiting Scholar at BC Law from 2017 to 2019. She also served as the Director of the Latin American Constitutionalism Program at the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at BC and has collaborated academically with the BC Center for Human Rights and International Justice. Since 2024, Urosa has been the Special Advisor for Graduate and Global Programs at BC Law.
Urosa earned her PhD cum laude in Law and a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Administrative Law from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She received her LL.B summa cum laude from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. With over twenty years of experience, she has taught at various universities in Venezuela and been a visiting lecturer at Universidad Autónoma de México School of Law and Universidad Iberoamericana (UNIBE) School of Law in the Dominican Republic. Currently, she serves as an International Ally Professor at Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela.
In her public interest professional experience, Urosa worked as a Law Clerk for more than eight years in the Constitutional Chamber and the Political-Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice in Venezuela.
As a legal scholar, Urosa is a member of several esteemed organizations, including the Latin American Seminar on Constitutional and Political Theory (SELA) at Yale Law School. She is also affiliated with the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Procedural Law and the Venezuelan Association of Administrative Law, where she previously held the position of vice president. Additionally, she serves as a co-editor and member of various prestigious editorial boards for legal publications. Urosa has authored three books and numerous publications on Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Electoral Law, and Human Rights in respected international journals and law reviews.
