Mauricio holds a PhD in Political Science from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) and doctor honoris causa of the Normal Higher School of Cachan (France). He is a professor at the Institute of Political Studies and International Relations (IEPRI) of the National University of Colombia, a researcher for Dejusticia and a columnist for the newspaper El Espectador.
His most recent publications include Normas de papel (Bogotá, 2009); La eficacia simbólica del derecho (Bogotá, 2014); El derecho al Estado (con J. R. Espinosa, Bogotá 2013); Les pouvoirs du droit (Paris, 2015); and “El orden de la libertad” (Bogotá, 2017).
At Dejusticia he is currently the Director of the Rule of Law Area.