Paulina Macías Ortega is a student of the 2024-2025 LL.M. in National and Global Health Law. She is originally from Mexico.
Macías is focused on litigation and promotion of human rights within the Inter-American and Universal Human Rights Systems from a gender perspective. Her interests include sexual and reproductive rights, feminist legal theory, constitutional law, the right to health with an emphasis on gender and social justice issues, and topics in bioethics, autonomy, and human rights.
Before enrolling at Georgetown Law, Macías was a professional visitor at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. She also worked as a consultant for the Center For Justice & International Law and the Open Society Foundations. Prior to that, she served as a consular officer at the Consulate General of Mexico in New York and as a law clerk at the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico. Additionally, she spent several years as a research assistant on topics of constitutionalism and gender at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Macías studied law and international relations in Mexico. She holds postgraduate diplomas in litigation of economic, social, and environmental rights, as well as law and bioethics, from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Additionally, she has diplomas in equality and non-discrimination and in economic, environmental, and social rights from the Universidad de Buenos Aires.