Felipe Rodríguez Estévez
Associate · Environmental Law
Environmental law and the rights of nature, with his own research line on the control of the State’s punitive power.
frodriguez (arroba) royerabogados.comFelipe’s practice centers on environmental law, the field where compliance does not end with obtaining a license: it continues in the recurring obligations that license creates, and in the evidence the authority will review years later.
His academic work gives him a perspective that is uncommon in the area. He researches the rights of nature as an operative legal category rather than a declaration — a debate that stopped being theoretical in Ecuador once the courts began deciding on that basis.
He is Academic Director of the Ecuadorian Observatory of Criminology, Criminal Policy and Sentence Enforcement, and a researcher at the Critical Legal Research Network. He also lectures externally at Universidad Internacional de La Rioja. His indexed output can be verified at ORCID 0000-0002-3058-8218.
Education
- Abogado (law degree) — Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador
- Master’s in Environmental Law — Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR)
Publications
- «La naturaleza como sujeto de derechos: un diálogo filosófico y jurídico entre Alemania y Ecuador»
- «Constitucionalismo del desastre en Ecuador: conducta y sentencias estatales frente a la emergencia sanitaria del covid-19»
- «Populismo penal y lawfare en la movilidad humana»
ORCID: 0000-0002-3058-8218