Luz Orozco

Luz Helena Orozco y Villa

Nonresident Scholar Center for the U.S. and Mexico

Biography

Luz Helena Orozco y Villa is a nonresident scholar at the Center for the U.S. and Mexico and a DPhil candidate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford. Her research focuses on the intersection of constitutional law and emerging technologies, specifically the constitutionalization of the digital environment and content moderation on online platforms. She is a research assistant at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights and a teaching assistant at the Oxford Internet Institute.

Before joining Oxford, Orozco y Villa served as a career clerk for the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice and as a research advisor at the Gender Equality Program of the Federal Judicial Council. She has taught International Human Rights Law, Philosophy of Human Rights, Family Law, and Gender Justice to undergraduate and graduate students at various universities.

Orozco y Villa earned an LLM from Columbia Law School as a Fulbright grantee and Bretzfelder scholar. She holds an LLB from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.