Natalia Niedmann Álvarez

nniedmannalvarez@uchicago.edu, +17735735657
EDUCATION
University of Chicago, Division of Social Sciences
Ph.D. in History student 2022-expected 2029

University of Chicago, Law School

J.S.D. Candidate 2019-expected 2023
Dissertation: “Belonging beyond rights”
Advisors: Alison LaCroix, Genevieve Lakier
Master of Laws (LL.M.) 2018-2019

Universidad de Chile, Law School

Law degree (summa cum laude) 2010-2017

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Chilean Antitrust Agency, Merger Division 2017-2018
Research of procedural aspects of the implementation of the new mandatory
notification regime, responsible for gun-jumping cases analysis and decision.
Technical counterpart of five expert opinions of administrative law scholars in
relation to the implementation of the new merger regulation.

TEACHING AND MENTORING

Resident Head at Rogers House, University of Chicago 2019-2022
Responsibilities include acting as a mentor, counselor, administrator,
disciplinarian, student leader’s supervisor and general resource person for a
community of a hundred undergraduate students.

Teaching Assistant, University of Chicago College 2020-2022

Introduction to Law, Letters and Society (prof.: David Lebow). 2 quart.
America in World Civilization (prof.: Amy Dru Stanley). 1 quart.
American Legal History (prof.: Amy Dru Stanley). 1 quart.
Reforming America: From the Gilded Age to the New Deal (prof. Gabriel Winant). 1 quart.

Teaching Assistant, Universidad de Chile 2011-2018

Law School
Legal Theory (prof.: Fernando Atria). 4 sem.
Administrative Law (prof.: Luis Cordero). 8 sem.
Judicial Behavior (prof.: Flavia Carbonell and Jonatan Valenzuela). 2 sem.
Criminal Procedural Law (prof.: Flavia Carbonell). 1 sem.

School of Economics
Introduction to Political, Social and Economic Thought (prof.: Óscar Landerretche). 2 sem.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND MEDIA

Constitutional considerations on the presentation by Andreas Feldman: 2019
"Chronicle of a Social Explosion Foretold: Making Sense of the Chilean
Sociopolitical Crisis" organized by the Center for Latin American Studies,
University of Chicago, November 4.

“Contra el lado correcto de la historia”, Revista Trama, Fundación Friedrich Ebert, 2019
Available at: https://www.revistatrama.cl/contra-el-lado-correcto-de-la-histo
“The Constitutional Reform in Chile”, discussion organized by the Latin American 2019
Matters Student Association of the Harris School of Public Policy, University of
Chicago, November 25.

“Chile: a matter of time”, co-authored with Juan Wilson, Tocqueville 21, Available 2020
at: https://tocqueville21.com/focus/chile-a-matter-of-time/

“Chile Despertó: contextualizing protests and a new constitution”, organized by 2020

National Lawyers Guild of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, January 21.

“Aborting rights for politics”, Individual paper presentation at the Conference of 2020
Gender, Women’s Suffrage, and Political Power, Past, Present and Future,
organized by: Michigan State University's (MSU) Center for Gender in Global
Context, MSU Department of History and the University of Michigan's Institute
for Research on Women and Gender, November 2020 (Refereed).

PUBLICATIONS
Imagining Development: The Chilean Dictatorship and the Case for Political 2020
Freedom as a Factor in the Human Development Index, Journal of Human
Development and Capabilities, 21:2, 121-136,
DOI: 10.1080/19452829.2020.1736530

From the rule of law to a rule of rights, The International Journal of Human 2022
Rights. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13642987.2022.2035096

AWARDS
Schlesinger Library Dissertation Grant 2022, Harvard Radcliffe Institute. 2022

Brenda and Earl Shapiro Scholar in History, University of Chicago. 2022

Beca Chile, Master degree in foreign countries scholarship 2018-2019, CONICYT, 2018
merit-based.

Law School academic scholarship, Universidad de Chile, merit-based. 2010