Domingo Lovera

Domingo Lovera Parmo (born 15 September 1977) is a Chilean lawyer, academic and politician, member of Revolución Democrática.

He was a member of the Expert Commission created to draft a preliminary constitutional text during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process.

Biography

He was born in San Felipe in 1977, the son of Ana María Parmo Sainz. He is married to Viviane Lennon González.

He studied law at Diego Portales University, graduating in 2003. His academic career began there, first as teaching assistant in Administrative Law under professor Domingo Hernández (1998), then at the Human Rights Center (2002), where he worked on the Disability Rights Program with María Soledad Cisternas, and later directed the Human Rights Clinic with Felipe González.

He was also assistant professor in the Department of Legal Theory under Agustín Squella and in Constitutional Law, where he later became full professor.

From 2006 to 2007, he completed an LL.M. at Columbia University, United States, as a Human Rights Fellow, where he was awarded the distinction of Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. In 2016, he obtained a PhD in Law from York University in Canada.

Professional career

Lovera has taught at Diego Portales University since 2002, serving as co-director of the Public Law Program since 2019. From 2008 to 2016 he was professor at the School of Industrial Engineering of the University of Chile, and, from 2009 to 2010, he also taught at the Adolfo Ibáñez University Law School.

He has published books and academic articles on constitutional law and human rights.

Constitutional process

A member of Revolución Democrática, Lovera was appointed in January 2023 by the Chamber of Deputies of Chile as member of the Expert Commission, established by Law No. 21.533. Within the commission, he joined the Subcommission on Jurisdictional Function and Autonomous Bodies.

Later he was part of the Mixed Commission tasked with resolving disputed provisions of the draft Constitution. In December 2023, he criticized the final proposal as reinforcing the neoliberal model of 1980.