Daniel Bonilla
Visiting Professor of Law

Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023
Email: dbonilla@law.fordham.edu
Telephone: 212.636.7348
Fax: 212-636-6775
Office: Room 217

EDUCATION

Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, Doctor in the Science of Law (J.S.D.), 2005. 

Fulbright Fellowship, 1998-2001.

Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, LL.M., 1999.

Article Editor, Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal.

Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia. Coursework completed for M.A. in Philosophy, 1996 (thesis pending).

Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, Law Degree, 1993.

Lucia Patiño Academic Performance Fellowship.


ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT AND INTERNATIONAL VISITORSHIPS

Associate Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2006-present. Assistant Professor 1998-2006. Instructor 1996-1998. Special Faculty Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, 2004. Best Law Professor Award, 1996 (spring and fall), 1997 (fall), 1998 (spring). 

Director of Public Interest Law Group, 2005-present

Distinguished Leitner Center Visiting Professor, Fordham Law School (2011 – 2012 Academic Year)

Visiting Lecturer in Law and Robina Foundation Fellow, Yale Law School (Spring 2011)

Visiting Professor, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (December, 2010)

Visiting Professor, Capacitación Técnica y Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos en Guatemala, Guatemala City, October, 2010

Visiting Professor, Fordham Law School, Fall, 2010

Visiting Professor, Capacitación Técnica y Litigio Estratégico en Derechos Humanos de los Pueblos Indígenas, Oficina del Alto Comisionado para los Derechos Humanos en Guatemala, Guatemala City, October, 2009

Visiting Professor, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA, April 2009

Member of Ph.D Evaluation Committee, Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao, May, 2009

Visiting Professor, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA, January 2008

LLILAS Visiting Resource Professor, University of Texas School of Law, Rappaport Center for Human Rights and Justice, Austin, TX, October 2007.

Visiting Professor, Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, GA, January 2007

Special Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Department of Philosophy, Bogotá, Colombia, Fall 2004. 

Guest Lecturer, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 1997-1998, Department of Political Science (taught graduate courses on jurisprudence and theories of justice).

Guest Lecturer, Teatro Libre de Bogota, Bogotá, Colombia, 1997-1998 (taught course on law and the arts).

Adjunct Professor, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 1997 (taught course on introduction to law).

Adjunct Professor, Universidad de los Andes, Department of Humanities, Bogotá, Colombia, 1994 (taught course on contemporary Colombian affairs).

ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

Special Faculty Distinction for Excellence in Teaching, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2004.

Fulbright Fellowship, Fulbright Commission, 1998-2001. 

Best Law Professor Award, Universidad de los Andes, 1996 (spring and fall), 1997 (fall), 1998 (spring).
       
Academic Performance Fellowship, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia, 1997.

Lucia Patiño Academic Performance Fellowship, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 1992. 

First Prize, Best College Journal, Instituto Colombiano para el Fomento de la Educación Superior, Bogotá, Colombia, Revista El Exterminador, 1992 (national competition for editorship of college publication).