Gustavo Arosemena Solorzano (G.M.)

• Mensenrechten
• Juridische redenering en argumentatie
• Empirisch juridisch onderzoek

Gustavo Arosemena (LLM UT Austin / Utrecht, PhD Maastricht) works on the field of human rights and legal reasoning  from theoretical and empirical perspectives. 

During his PhD he sought to identify ways to embed economic, social and cultural rights within the constraints of constitutional democratic framework. This led to the publication of “Rights Scarcity and Justice” (Intersentia 2014). 

After this, he has carried out critical scholarship in relation to the politicization of human rights. Sample publications in this line of research include: 

Freedom or transformation? Conflicting tendencies in UN human rights discourse” in: Jure Vidmar (ed.), European Populism and Human Rights (Nijhoff, 2019)

"The deliberative deficit of human rights strategies: conceptual problems and practical implications" in I. Westendorp, Human Rights Strategies. Benefits and Drawbacks (Edward Elgar 2024). 

He has also worked on the “nuts and bolts” of legal decision-making within human rights. Sample publications within this theme include: 

Conflicts of Rights in International Human Rights: A Meta-Rule Analysis” Global Constitutionalism, volume 2, issue 1 (2013).  

“Conflicts in rights-based development”, with Bart Kleine Deters, in: Jan Wouters, Koen Lemmens, Thomas Van Poecke & Marie Bourguignon (eds) Can We Still Afford Human Rights? Critical Reflections on Universality, Costs and Proliferation (Edward Elgar, 2019). 

At the moment he is currently working on modelling reasoning and concept use at the European Court of Human Rights through network analysis and other techniques of Empirical Legal Research such as topic modelling. 

Gustavo Arosemena has given lectures at the University of A Coruña, the University of Antwerp,  the Lorentz Centre at Leiden and the Human Development and Capabilities Association, amongst other places.