About
Daniel López Contreras (33) grew up in Santiago, Chile. He is a lawyer with degrees in legal, social and literary studies. He is a researcher in the areas of literature, law, and cultural studies. From 2018-2021 he directed the Law and Literature Workshop—an interdisciplinary academic and cultural working group—as well as the Alberto Fuguet Foundation (2022), an institution dedicated to promoting literature in the Southern Cone and the work of Chilean author Alberto Fuguet, especially. From 2023 to 2025 he studied at Bucknell University where he served as a Spanish Teaching Assistant.
His bachelor’s thesis (Law School) examined the contrato de edición de obra literaria in Chile, and his second bachelor's tesis (Literature School) was an unpublished novel titled "Trapos sucios". Daniel was the editor of (re)constitución poética (Zanka Editores, 2020), poetic anthology containing texts by Chilean poets referring to the Chilean social uprising and the constitutional process that unfolded between 2019 and 2022. According to this, his recent research interests are focused on legal rethoric, legal fictions and narratives of law.
Research interests: His research interests include the intersections of Law and Literature in Latin America, Law and Speculative Fictions, Latin American constitutionalism, and the Philosophy of Law.
