Felipe Mesel

Global Program Manager

Felipe is the Global Program Manager at Movement Law Lab. He has been working with different communities in his home country, Argentina, since he was a law student at the National University of La Plata. He has organized popular educational workshops with incarcerated law students and young victims of police repression. Prior to joining Movement Law Lab, Felipe worked in the Judiciary of the Argentine Nation, the Ombudsman's Office of the City of Buenos Aires, the National Ministry of Territorial Development and Habitat of the Nation, the National Secretariat of Social and Urban Integration and as a human rights lawyer in the Civil Association for Equality and Justice (ACIJ) which specialized in urban and housing issues. There he worked side by side with slum-dwellers' and grassroots movements. As a Law Professor, he taught different courses at the National University of La Plata, always trying to find non-dominant uses of law and participated in different Latin American and international academic and activist networks.

He studied Diplomado in Socio-legal Studies of Urban Land at the National University Autónoma of México (UNAM) and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and a Master in Urban Economics at the University Torcuato Di Tella.