Digno Montalván

Digno Montalván is an Ecuadorian lawyer and PhD in Advanced Studies in Human Rights. In the academic field, Digno has focused his research on the topics of Rights of Nature, legal pluralism, international human rights courts and culture of legality. He holds a Master’s degree in Constitutional Law from the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies of Spain and a Law degree from the University “Espíritu Santo” of Ecuador. He is member of the UC3M research group on “law and justice” (Grupo de Investigación Sobre el Derecho y la Justicia), associate researcher of the ERC project “Rivers: indigenous water ontologies, plurilegal encounters and interlegal translation”, part of the editorial board of the academic review “Eunomia. Revista en cultura de la legalidad” and co-coordinator of the UC3M workshop on law and justice.

He has also worked in different positions in the public sector of Ecuador- among them, legal analyst of the judicial function of Ecuador and specialist in social rights of the Ombudsman’s Office of Ecuador. He is a Post graduate scholar of the Carolina Foundation of Spain in 2015, Scholar of the service of doctrine of the Constitutional Court of Spain in 2017 and winner of the pre doctoral contract for the formation of the investigative personnel granted by the Ministry of Economy and Company of Spain in 2018.