Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, PhD

Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, PhD

Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín is a postdoctoral researcher and is currently pursuing his lecturing qualification (habilitation) at the Institute for Legal and Constitutional History of University of Vienna. He is also the managing editor of the Journal of the History of International Law. He studied in Bogotá and Geneva —spending research stays or exchange semesters in Melbourne, Boston, Zurich, Brussels, New Haven, Berlin, Vienna, Halle, Heidelberg, and Amsterdam— and obtained his doctorate, with the highest distinction, in 2024. He was awarded a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Doc.CH grant for that purpose. Currently, he has the support of an Ernst Mach Worldwide Fellowship from Austria’s Agentur für Bildung und Internationalisierung (OeAD). For the 2025-2026 academic year, he will be based at New York University as a Hauser/Remarque Global Fellow. Afterwards, he will return to the University of Vienna with the support of a SNSF two-year Postdoc.Mobility grant.

Selected publications

Co-editor (with Negar Mansouri) of the volume Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025). 9781009552615. Available OA at: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009552646

Quiroga-Villamarín, D. R. (2025) “Challenging the Global Herrenhaus: The Unending Quest to Democratize International Relations Within, and Beyond, the United Nations.” University of Vienna Law Review 9(2), 21-49. https://doi.org/10.25365/vlr-2025-9-2-21 

Quiroga-Villamarín, D. R. (2024) “Arminius Rex: On the Postcolonial Uses of Imperial Languages in, and beyond, International Law.” Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV)/Heidelberg Journal of International Law 84(2), 281-306.

Quiroga-Villamarín, D. R. (2023) “Endroits of Planetary Ordering: Violence, Law, Space, & Capital in the Diplomatic History of 19th Century Europe.” German Law Journal 24(7), 1169-1183. https://doi.org/10.1017/glj.2023.82 

Quiroga-Villamarín, D. R. (2023) ““Suitable Palaces”: Navigating Layers of World Ordering at the Centre William Rappard (1923-2013).” Architectural Theory Review 27(1), 19-40. (Special issue on the ‘Architecture of Global Governance’). https://doi.org/10.1080/13264826.2023.2231574

Quiroga-Villamarín, D. R. (2021) “Beyond Texts? Towards a Material Turn in the Theory and History of International Law.” Journal of the History of International Law 23(3), 466-500. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-12340172  

Quiroga-Villamarín, D. R. (2019). “’An Atmosphere of Genuine Solidarity and Brotherhood’: Hernán Santa Cruz and a Forgotten Latin American Contribution to Social Rights.” Journal of the History of International Law vol. 29(1), 71-103. https://doi.org/10.1163/15718050-12340103

Research Interests & Projects

  • Theory and History of International Law
  • European & Global History
  • History of the Americas
  • International Organizations and Global Governance
  • Global Law
  • Law and Humanities —including Aesthetics and Architecture
  • The Laws of War —including those related to Transitional Justice
  • Law and Religion
  • Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)
  • Global Commerce

Curriculum vitae

  • PhD in International Law (with a Minor in International History & Politics) with the highest distinction (summa cum laude avec les félicitations du jury). Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), 2020-2024.
  • MA in International Law. Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland), 2018-2020.
  • BA in law (with a Minor in Public Affairs). Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), 2013-2018.