Sebastián Figueroa

• Doctor of Law, University of Girona (2015).      
• Bachelor in Legal and Social Sciences, Universidad de Chile (2011).

Sebastián collaborates with CIDS as a researcher. His area of ​​research is the philosophy of law, area in which he combines elements of practical philosophy and social philosophy. More specifically, in recent years he has explored the interactions between contemporary agency theories, recognition theories, and normative theories of law. Since 2018, he has been developing the Fondecyt Initiation project “Legal relationships between strangers from a social theory of action” in which she studies the social configuration of legal relationships. Also among his areas of interest are the problems of exclusion and legitimation of authority in contemporary societies. Among the representative works of these lines of research are:

• Practical authority and recognition. Between paradoxes. In Ormeño, J. and Peña, I. (eds.). Recognition and Law. Discussions about the intersubjective foundation of legal institutions . Santiago: Editorial University of Chile (2021)      
• Dynamic legal relationships between needy and intolerant. Discussions Nº18,2 / 2016. pp. 209-255. (2018)      
• Recognition and asymmetry in the constitution of duties and responsibility. In Miguel Giusti (ed) The paradigm of recognition in contemporary ethics. The state of the question. Editorial Fund of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Lima . pp. 287-308. (2017)      
• Social rules, ways of life and language games. In Figueroa, S (ed). Hart in contemporary legal theory. 50 years after The Concept of Law . Diego Portales Ediciones University, Santiago. pp 217 – 246 (2014)