Erika Schmidhuber Peña
MEX
Litigante en el Centro de Estudios Legales y Sociales (CELS)/Litigator at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS)
Erika Schmidhuber Peña studied International Relations and Law at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO) in Guadalajara, Mexico. She holds a master's degree in International Human Rights Law from Universidad de Buenos Aires. Since 2012 she has worked at the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) litigating cases of human rights violations before the Inter-American Human Rights System and the United Nations. She has been a professor at Universidad de Buenos Aires’ Law School, and has taught courses on international human rights law at the graduate and postgraduate level in Mexico and Argentina. Previously, she was a specialist lawyer at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.