David Cordero-Heredia

David Cordero-Heredia is a Visiting Professor at the Yale School of the Environment. At Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, he served as a Professor of Law, Director of the Human Rights Clinic, Director of the Clinical Program, and Director of the Law Journal (RFJ). From 2018 to 2019, he was a Senior Teaching Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell Law School, where he co-taught the International Human Rights Clinic: Policy Advocacy. His research examines the interaction between social movements and the law, with a particular focus on the implementation of the rights of nature and the participation of Indigenous peoples.

Professor Cordero-Heredia has taught Constitutional Law, Indigenous Peoples’ Rights, Social Movements and the Law, Sociology of Law, Inter-American Human Rights System, Constitutional Litigation, Human Rights Clinic, and International Human Rights Law at various universities in Ecuador.

He is also a dedicated human rights advocate, representing Indigenous peoples from Ecuador and Colombia before the Inter-American Human Rights System. In 2022, he was part of the legal team that brought the case of the Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation (Tagaeri and Taromenane) before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.