About
Erick, a Michigan International and Comparative Law Scholar, is currently pursuing an S.J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School, having completed an LL.M. in 2023. During his LL.M. year, Erick was awarded the Myint Zan LL.M. Prize for his dedication to social justice and interdisciplinary pursuits. He also served as the LL.M. representative to both the Law School Student Senate and the International Law Society. Erick also represented the Law School as a Salzburg Cutler Fellow, presenting an introductory paper based on his upcoming doctoral dissertation, and worked as an Editor for the Michigan Journal of International Law.
Before joining Michigan Law, Erick worked in the judiciary branch and arbitration sector. From 2018 to 2019, he held the position of legal coordinator at the Center of International Arbitration and Mediation, affiliated with the Chamber of Industries and the Ecuadorian-British Chamber, where he served as a case manager for diverse domestic arbitration proceedings. In 2019, Erick was appointed as a law clerk to Justice Karla Andrade of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. During his tenure, he supported drafting cases involving immigration and refugee law, indigenous rights, banking law, municipal tax law, and domestic arbitration.
Erick has been actively engaged in academic work since 2018. Alongside other alums from the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, he co-founded the USFQ Law Working Papers, an academic-legal series that continuously publishes original academic and scientific articles. He also authored and co-authored articles, book chapters, and online contributions in Spanish and English, with a focus on human rights, constitutional law, and legal issues concerning Constitutional Courts. Erick held a visiting lecturer position in the Master of Criminology program at Universidad Espiritu Santo, where he taught a course on Introduction to Deontology and International Law.
Research interests
Erick's areas of interest include international economic law, international investment law, international human rights law, constitutional law, and the intersections between these fields.
