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Ezequiel González-Ocantos (DPIR, University of Oxford)

Ezequiel González-Ocantos is Associate Professor in the in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow of Nuffield College. González-Ocantos is the author of Shifting Legal Visions: Judicial Change and Human Rights Trails in Latin America and of The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America: Power, Norms and Capacity Building.

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In the upcoming months, the OxPol Blog will be featuring Q&A sessions with faculty from the Department of Politics and International Relations to highlight their ongoing research. Over the last few weeks, the OxPol editorial team spoke with Professor Ezequiel González-Ocantos about his ongoing projects since winning the Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2018.  OxPol (OP): In 2018 you were awarded the Philip Leverhulme Prize. Could you share what projects you have been working on over the last few years since winning the prize? Ezequiel González-Ocantos (EGO): Since 2018 I’ve been working on three different projects. First, together with my colleagues Sandra Botero and Daniel Brinks we curated a collection of essays that looks at new trends in the judicialization of politics in …