Visiting Fellow, Chair of Human Rights Law (Alexander von Humboldt Professorship)
Professor Dr Lila García is a current Visiting Fellow at the Chair for Human Rights Law, where her visit is supported by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation funding provided to the Chair.
She is senior researcher (tenured and salaried) at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Argentina, Adjunct (Associate) Professor (tenure track) at the National University of Mar del Plata, where she teaches International Contemporary Politics and Argentinean Foreign Policy, and leading professor of the seminar on Economic, Social, Cultural and Environmental Rights at the National University of La Pampa (UNLPam, Argentina). She is also PI in the project “Geopolitics of Human Mobility. (F)actors in the politics of classification of contemporary human mobility in and from a Global South” (2025-2026)” (University of Mar del Plata), and Country Expert in the project “ACCESS. The evolving role of courts in shaping Access to Asylum” (University of Bologna).
Previously, she was LIAS Fellow 2025-2026 at Leuphana University Lüneburg, FFTV Visiting Fellow at FAU-CHREN, CAPES Visiting Fellow at University of Fortaleza (Brazil) and Visiting Professor at National University of Mexico (UNAM). He has also won several awards and honorable mentions in human rights essay and research contests: Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court (American University Washington DC), UNESCO Uruguay, Mexican Human Rights Commission, American University Washington DC Awards, Legislature of the State of Mexico, OAS (Organization of the American States) American Summit Contest, Mexican Supreme Court of Justice and Judicial Training Awards, Judicial Council of the City of Buenos Aires, among others.
Her forthcoming and latest publications include:
2025 and 2026
- García, L.: Interior Enforcement Approaches in Argentina (What about a ‘human rights-based’ experience). The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law. Kevin Cope, Stella Burch Elias, Jill Goldenziel, eds.
- García, L.: Between Sinking Ships and Collective Wins. Human mobility standards from the Inter-American System of Human Rights in domestic adjudication: the Argentinean and the Mexican Supreme Courts in perspective. World Comparative Law (WCL)/Verfassung und Recht in Übersee (VRÜ).
- García, L.; Giaccone, E. and Clerico, L. Developing standards on climate-related human mobility with (a little) help of amici curiae in the Advisory Opinion 32/2025. 3 March 2026. ICONnect.blog. Link.
- García, L.: Waiting with rights: the best of limbos? The experience of the “precarious” residence in Argentina. In: Research Handbook on Time and Temporalities of Migration Law, P. Mindus and R. Thorburn (eds.) (London, Stern Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.)
2024
- Garcia, L. (2024): Social Protection Within a ‘Human Rights-Based’ Experience. Being a Foreigner at Accessing the Emergency Family Income During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Argentina. Iberoamericana. Nordic Journal of Latin-American and Caribbean Studies. Vol. 53, Issue 1: 92-104. Link.
- Garcia, L. (2024): Movilidad de vidas “precarias” en pandemia. El cierre de fronteras en Argentina y sus efectos desde el derecho humano a migrar [Mobility of precarious lives during pandemic. Border closure in Argentina and its effects from the human right to migrate]. Población & Sociedad. Vol. 31, Issue 1: 1-27. Link.
- Garcia, L. (2024): Tres porciento. Debates jurídico-políticos en control migratorio en el máximo tribunal argentino (2019-2022) [Three percent. Legal-political debates on immigration control in Argentina’s highest court (2019-2022)]. Revista chilena de Derecho y Ciencia Política. Vol. 15, Issue 1: 1-33. Link.
- Garcia, L. (2024): Dos décadas de la ley de migraciones en las sentencias de la Corte Suprema de Justicia de la Nación [Two Decades of the Migration Law in the Argentinean Supreme Court of Justice´s Adjudication]. In: Migraciones: un derecho humano. Balances y desafíos sobre la ley de migraciones argentina, ed. Rubén Giustiniani (Buenos Aires: National University of Rosario (UNR) and EUDEBA-National University of Buenos Aires, UBA), 53-74. Link.
* See a complete list of publications here:
https://bicyt.conicet.gov.ar/fichas/p/en/lila-emilse-garcia