Ludovico is a producer, director and documentary filmmaker with a great passion for visual storytelling. In 2011 he founded the Travel Media House, a production company, which’s themes of production range from extreme travel to social and environmental issues. Moreover, he is specially interested in the rights of Nature and Indigenous peoples, which particularly drew him to LOLA. Ludovico believes in the power of documentaries to shape a compelling narrative that resonates beyond academic and specialist audiences, and this is exactly what he hopes to achieve through his work as part of the LOLA project.

Maria Elena is a Professor in Constitutional and Administrative Law and a researcher for the LOLA project. She was driven to make part of the LOLA team because of the project’s potential to address legal pluralism from the advances of constitutional models of countries that are often left at the periphery of Comparative Constitutional studies, specifically Bolivia, her home country. She believes that through LOLA, criteria for legal pluralism can be systematized to advance comparative law analysis that considers the progress and regrettable setbacks experienced over the past decade in Bolivia and other countries of the region.

Alejandro is a Professor from the Universidad Externado de Colombia and a researcher for the LOLA project. As a professional in Constitutional Law he has dedicated his work to the comparative study of the responses that Law has constructed for the recognition and protection of Indigenous and tribal peoples. Having participated as a legal advisor to the Colombian state and indigenous nations in his country, he believes that LOLA is a valuable project, with potential to ignite a better Law – one that finds new ways of resolving conflicts and that builds an institutional framework more in line with diverse societies.

Silvia is an Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law in the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Bologna and a researcher for the LOLA project. Her research is driven by her interests in constitutional justice, Latin American constitutionalism, interculturalism, and ecological law. With a vast background that focuses on Latin America’s culture and legal tradition, Silvia sees the LOLA project as an opportunity to continue her work on legal pluralism. More specifically, she believes in the capacity of LOLA to engage in experimenting solutions to manage social and cultural pluralism within Nation-States in the region.

Maria Francesca is the principal researcher of the LOLA project and an Assistant Professor of Jurisprudence at Tilburg University. This project emerged from her interests in legal pluralism and the intersections of law, anthropology and ecology. She has worked closely with Giorgia Pavani and Silvia Bagni at the Centro di Studi sull’America Latina of the University of Bologna, which reflects the project’s focus on Latin America’s culture and legal tradition. In this way, Maria Francesca sees LOLA’s relevance in its critical engagement with dominant legal paradigms and its potential to
challenge and enrich Western legal thought.

Rodrigo is an Assistant professor at the Law School of Tilburg University and a researcher for the LOLA project. Having grown up and studied Social Sciences and Law in Chile his personal connection to Latin America inspired him to be part of LOLA. He believes that the project has great potential to explore new legal realities through plurinationality and legal pluralism, which often challenge the “traditional” understanding of constitutional law, the construction of a legal order and political representation altogether.

Giulia is an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Law School and researcher for the LOLA project. As a scholar of Public Governance and an expert in institutional theories, she is making a valuable contribution to LOLA by examining governance mechanisms thta facilitate or hinder the implementation of pluralistic legal frameworks, particularly in relation to sustainability and Indigenous governance. She believes that understanding how governance structures accommodate Indigenous legal systems and sustainability concerns is essential for fostering inclusive and resilient institutions. Giulia was drawn to LOLA through her eagerness to explore how governance mechanisms interact with sustainability policies in a pluralist context.

Giorgia is a Professor of Comparative Public Law from the University of Bologna and a researcher for the LOLA project. As the coordinator of the Center for Latin American Studies in Bologna, she has been at the forefront of coordinating European projects in relation to rights of Nature, inclusivity and interculturality. She is interested in the methodological approach to the topic of pluralism that the project offers from various perspectives. Similarly, she is driven by the possibilities that LOLA opens for the diversification of the educational curriculum of Law students in the Netherlands.