José-Manuel BARRETO

José-Manuel Barreto works on the decolonization of human rights and international law
relying on the Third World Approaches to International (TWAIL) and explores ways of
emotionally warming the global human rights culture by telling stories and through the
arts. He edited “Human Rights from a Third World Perspective. Critique, History, and
International Law” and is about to publish “Human Rights and Decolonial Theory”. He
studied Law at the Externado University and holds a BA in Philosophy from the National
University of Colombia, and an MA in Human Rights from the Institute of
Commonwealth Studies, University of London. He received his PhD in Law from
Birkbeck College, University of London. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Humboldt-
University, Berlin, and the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the
Humanities ‘Recht als Kultur’, University of Bonn. He has been a Visiting Researcher at
the Max Planck Institute for Legal History, Frankfurt, and the ZIF, University of Bielefeld.
He teaches Law at the Javeriana University and the University of the Andes in Bogotá.