Profile
Javier Ignacio Valdés Torres is a PhD candidate in Law at Queen Mary University of London, supported by the HSS Principal's Research Studentship and the Becas Chile (ANID) scholarship. He holds a Master’s in Law (Summa Cum Laude) and a Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences (First Class) from the University of Chile.
Currently, Javier serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Queen Mary Law Journal for the 2025-2026 period, following his position as Executive Editor in 2024-2025. Prior to his doctoral studies, he served as a Legislative and Constitutional Advisor for the Chilean Ministry of the Interior and the Chilean Constitutional Convention. His professional background also includes experience as an Associate Attorney in Public Law.
Research
Publications
Books
- MIRANDA, D. & VALDÉS, J. (2022). Formularios básicos de las relaciones de los ciudadanos con la Administración del Estado, Tirant Lo Blanch, Valencia.
Articles
- PINTO, F. & VALDÉS, J. (2022). “El trabajo de cuidados y doméstico no remunerado: entre reconocimiento y redistribución.” Revista de Derecho Público, (96), 43-74.
- LARA ARROYO, J. L. & VALDÉS TORRES, J. (2018). “40 años de la Constitución Española de 1978 y la Constitución Chilena de 1980. Encuentros y desencuentros del sistema de garantías de derechos fundamentales entre el caso chileno y el español”, Revista Actualidad Jurídica Uría Menéndez, n.º 50, 27-37.
Book Chapters
- VALDÉS TORRES, J. (2021). “Sobre recognition y su aporte para la lectura de los derechos sociales como derechos de cooperación”, in ORMEÑO, J. y PEÑA, I. (eds.), Reconocimiento y Derecho: Discusiones en torno fundamento intersubjetivo de las instituciones jurídicas, Editorial Universitaria.
- VALDÉS TORRES, J. & LARA ARROYO, J. L. (2020). “El Procedimiento Administrativo en Chile”, in LARA ARROYO, J.L & MAGIDE HERRERO, M. (dir), Procedimiento Administrativo y Contratación Pública en Iberoamérica, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, pp. 25-60
Public Engagement
Presentations in conferences
- Historical Materialism Conference 2025. Held at SOAS. Title: "The Authoritarian Legal Project of the Chilean Dictatorship: Conservative Foundations and Enduring Legacy”.
- Critical Legal Conference 2025. Held at University of Exeter. Title: "Temporal Wounds: Emotional Experiences of Time, Dystopian Pasts, and Legal Futurity in Chile and Brazil”.
- QMUL PhD in Law Conference 2025: Law and Inclusivity. Held at Queen Mary University of London. Title: “Authoritarian Legality and the Exception: The Case of Chilean Dictatorship (1973-1989)”.
- QMUL-Sorbonne PhD Conference 2025. Held at Queen Mary University of London: “The authoritarian project and ideology of the Chilean Dictatorship: A reading of its exceptionalism”.
- Critical Legal Conference: Speculation(s). Held at University of Lund, Lund, Sweden, 2024. Title: “The normalization of State of Exception: The case of Chile and the Mapuche conflict”.
- PhD in Law Conference 2024. Held at Queen Mary University of London. Title: “The relationship between exception and dictatorship: Authoritarian law and the Chilean exception”.
- VII Congress of Philosophy of Chile of 2021, in Symposium on Philosophy of Law. Title: "On the judicial review of the State of Exception".
- V Congress of Philosophy of Chile of 2017, held in Valdivia, at the Symposium on Recognition and Law. Title: "On recognition and the search for a new meaning to the idea of rights".