Eva Montero Ibarra

DPhil Law

Biography

Eva is a DPhil candidate in Law at St Peter’s College, supervised by Nick Barber.

Her doctoral research project can be classified as a comparative constitutional study. She examines how civil society features in the constitutional ideology of competitive authoritarian regimes. Previously, she graduated with Distinction from the Magister Juris at St Hilda's College, University of Oxford. All of her studies at the University of Oxford have been fully funded by the “La Caixa” Foundation and the Ramón Areces Foundation. 

Before her time at Oxford, Eva earned her Bachelor's in Law from the University of Seville, where she graduated first in her cohort and received the ‘Premio Extraordinario de Fin de Estudios’. She achieved the highest academic record in law in the Region of Andalusia and was awarded the VIII Julio Bancloche Award.

Most recently, Eva lectured on Constitutional Law at the Oxford-Ohio State University Pre-Law Summer School. During her bachelor’s degree, she also served as a teaching assistant for the undergraduate course in Public International Law at the University of Seville.

Research Interests

Constitutional Law; Constitutional Theory; Comparative Law; Law and Authoritarianism;  Democracy Studies; Public Law