Carlos Andrés Baquero-Díaz
Research Lead
Earth Rights Advocacy

Carlos Andrés holds a LLM on International Legal Studies from NYU Law, where he was a Hauser Global Scholar and 2019 recipient of the Jerome Lipper Award. He also has a J.D. from Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), where he graduated as cum laude, and a B.A. in Political Science from the same university. Currently, he is a JSD student at NYU Law working on issues related to property and environmental law in the Brazilian Amazon region. His research interests focus on discrimination, participation, environment law, property, and climate change.

He has worked at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, the Center for the Study of the Law, Justice and Society (Dejusticia), the Columbia Center for Sustainable Investment, and the Comunidad de Juristas Akubadaura.

Carlos Andrés works at the Center as a research lead on the Climate Litigation Accelerator on rights of nature, property rights, and environmental protection.