Senior International Fellow for Latin America

Jorge Martínez Rivera is Professor of Law at the University of Chile. He teaches courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students on Employment and Labor Law, Discrimination Law, and Comparative Law. He holds an LLB from the University of Chile, an LLM from the University of Washington at Seattle, and is a PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh.

Jorge obtained the “Free Society Prize” (2012) for the best Latin-American undergraduate thesis in the field of public policies, awarded by the Liberty and Development Institute in Chile.

In 2020, the Chilean government awarded him a Beca-Chile Scholarship, given to “students of excellence,” to pursue a doctorate degree at the University of Edinburgh. There, he received the Career Development Scholarship to do an internship at the Government Accountability Project. In 2023, Jorge was selected to participate in the PROM international scholarship exchange of PhD candidates program at the University of Warsaw and a research visit at the University of Heidelberg.

Currently, he is researching the challenges of transplanting whistleblowing law in countries of the civil law tradition, focusing on the Anglo-American tradition and Latin-America.

Jorge is member of the Chilean Bar Association and the Chilean Branch of the International Society for Labour and Social Security Law.