Laura Dragnic Tohá is a student of the 2024-2025 LL.M. in National and Global Health Law. She is originally from Chile.
Dragnic Tohá is focused on reproductive justice, human rights, gender equity, and the intersection of health and law. She is interested in the legal and ethical implications of new technologies on health and their impact on women’s rights. At Georgetown Law, she aims to deepen her understanding of the regulatory frameworks in the United States and their application in global health contexts.
Before enrolling at Georgetown Law, Dragnic Tohá served as a legal advisor at the Ministry of Women and Gender Equity in Chile. In this role, she worked on advancing the law that prevents, eradicates, and punishes violence against women; making amendments to the law on respectful childbirth; and producing a new regulation on conscientious objection focused on women’s sexual and reproductive rights. She was also part of the team that designed the draft law establishing a National Care System. Previously, as legal coordinator of the Miles Corporation, a reproductive rights nongovernmental organization in Chile, she coordinated the legal team that carried out the initial litigation strategy for a recent high-relevance case of defective contraceptive pills.
Dragnic Tohá also served as a legislative advisor in the Chamber of Deputies, focusing on the Health and Constitution Commissions. As the project coordinator at Fundación Rumbo Colectivo, she also focused on the Chilean constituent process.
She held a research assistant position at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Chile and various teaching assistantships in the School of Law, including moral philosophy, philosophy of science, introduction to law, and legal clinic. She has researched and written on the implementation of the abortion law in Chile and wrote her Master’s thesis on sexual consent.
She holds a Master’s in contemporary thought and political philosophy from Universidad Diego Portales, a graduate diploma in women and criminal justice, and a law degree from Universidad de Chile.