Cristina Valega Chipoco, MSt (University of Oxford)

Doctoral Researcher

Criminal Law
+49 761 7081-319

c.valega@csl.mpg.de

Main Focus

Gender, sexualities, and law
Consent and sexual offences
Gender-based violence, gender stereotypes, and international human rights law
Intersectionality studies

Curriculum Vitae

2023–2024: Lecturer in the B.A. Programme “Gender and Diversity” of the Faculty of Society and Economics, Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences (Germany)

August 2022–present: Doctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Criminal Law

2022: Lecturer, PUCP Law School

2022: Academic Visitor at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

2021–2022: Consultant, Gender Justice Commission of the Peruvian Judiciary (Comisión de Justicia de Género del Poder Judicial)

2020–2021: M.St. in Women’s Studies (with merit), University of Oxford

2020: Research consultant on the impact of gender stereotypes in consumption and advertising in Peru, United Nations Development Programme (Lima)

2019–2020: Peruvian Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Populations (Ministerio de la Mujer y Poblaciones Vulnerables)
– Project coordinator, National Strategy on the Prevention of Gender-Based Violence
– Legal advisor, Directorate General against Gender Violence

2019: Qualified as attorney-at-law (Abogada), thesis: summa cum laude

2017–2019: Legal assistant in the Academic Office of Social Responsibility (Oficina Académica de Responsabilidad Social), PUCP Law School

2010–2016: Bachelor of Laws (Bachillera en Derecho), Facultad de Derecho, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP Law School)

Projects

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Scales, law, project description: Legal Perspectives on Acts of Sexual Violence through Condom Deception as a Means of Vitiating Sexual Consent (“Stealthing”)

Legal Perspectives on Acts of Sexual Violence through Condom Deception as a Means of Vitiating Sexual Consent (“Stealthing”)

Head of project: Cristina Valega Chipoco
The outcome of this research project will be a contribution to an edited volume coordinated by the Universidad del Rosario (Colombia) and the Network of Latin American Law Scholars (Red ALAS). The overall aim of the book is to examine condom deception as a form of sexual violence from a legal perspective, focusing on the unique… more

Analysis of the Constitutional Gender Order in 21st Century Peruvian Jurisprudence

Head of project: Cristina Valega Chipoco
The outcome of this research project will be a collaborative contribution to an edited volume on gender and constitutionalism in Latin America, forthcoming from Routledge, which undertakes a close examination of the role of constitutional law and litigation in addressing the rights and claims of women and LGBTQIA+ people. more

The Criminalization of Femicide: A Comparative Legal Perspective

Heads of project: Konstanze Jarvers, Emily Silverman, Cristina Valega Chipoco
Killings of women, the most serious form of gender-based violence, is a phenomenon that has existed worldwide since time immemorial. And yet it has only recently become the focus of cultural and legal debate. With that in mind, this international comparative research project focuses on the… more

The Element of Non-Consent in the Offence of Rape: A Focus on Peruvian Law

Head of project: Cristina Valega Chipoco
During the past two decades, many transnational and domestic statutes that regulate the offence of rape have turned away from considering violence or threats as necessary modalities of the offence and have begun treating non-consent as its essential element. This transition can be seen in recent international human rights… more