Overview
Eliel Sanchez-Acevedo is a Doctor of Juridical Science candidate at Harvard Law School, working with professors Kenneth W. Mack, Duncan Kennedy, Martha Minow, and Alejandro de la Fuente on racial relations and constitutional law in Mexico. He received his JD degree and an MA in Communication and Social Change from the Ibero-American University Puebla (Mexico) while supervised by Dr. Maria Eugenia Sanchez Diaz de Rivera. Eliel also received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from Harvard Law School in 2019, under the supervision of professor Kenneth W. Mack.
He is interested in researching identity politics, race and the law, politics of recognition, constitutional change, minority rights, anti-discrimination law, legal history, Latin American history, Afro-Latin American and Indigenous studies, property, and legal theory. Theoretically, he is interested in Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, LatCrit Theory, and Queer Theory.