Liliam Fiallo
Graduate Student
Liliam Fiallo is a socio-legal scholar whose research explores the intersection of gender, indigeneity, and law in struggles for justice across the Americas. Her current research examines Latin American Indigenous women’s transnational mobilization of the human rights law to advance the right to a life free from violence. This work highlights how legal mobilization simultaneously opens space for transformative claims and imposes epistemic constraints, shaping the kinds of justice that become possible. Her broader research interests include feminist legal theory, decolonial thought, social movements, and international relations. Liliam’s work is committed to making scholarship collaborative, accessible, and accountable to the communities with whom it engages.
Degrees
PhD (c) in Political Science. University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
M.A. Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Amherst. 2023.
PhD in Law. Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (UASB-Ecuador). 2022.
M.A in Sociology. Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador). 2014.
Bachelor in Law. University of Havana (Cuba). 2007.
Publications
Fiallo, L., MnisiWeeks, S., & Karwashan, A. 2025. “Housing rights and the right to housing. The New Hampshire eviction clinic program.” The International Journal of Human Rights, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2025.2496885.
Fiallo, L. 2021. “We Will Apply Indigenous Justice: Legitimacy and Limits of Legal Pluralism.” (in Spanish) In Rodriguez, Marta (Ed.), Los pueblos indígenas del Abya-Yala en el siglo XXI. Un análisis multidimensional. Quito: Abya-Yala.
Fiallo, L. 2018. Indigenous Peoples’ Collective Right to the Territory and its Relationship with the Right to Self-Determination. Analysis of the Inter American System of Human Rights Jurisprudence. Calamo, Revista de Estudios Jurídicos, No. 10: 6-24 (Open Access)
Fiallo, L. 2018 .“Human Rights and Social Justice. A Critique on Jack Donelly.” REDpensar, Vol 7, No. 1: 1-15. (in Spanish), 10.31906/redpensar.v7i1.158
Fiallo, L. 2018. “Legal Pluralism and Indigenous Women’s Human Rights. A Difficult Equation in the Social Science Field” (in Spanish). In Reimaginar América Latina. Desafíos teóricos y políticos para pensar una región en cambio. CLACSO: Argentina: 123-148.
Fiallo, L. 2018. “The Human Right to a Life Free of Violence for Indigenous Women Within the Framework of Legal Pluralism. Analysis of its Tensions in Ecuador” (in Spanish). Confluenze, Vol 10, No. 2: 486-512, https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-0967/8877.