Juan Felipe Wills is a Colombian LL.M. candidate at Harvard Law School. As a Research Assistant at the HLS Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC), he contributes to a research initiative on “War Lawyering.”
Juan obtained his first law degree at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, in 2018. During this time, he participated in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and received the Best Oralist Award in the National Rounds in 2016. Additionally, he worked as a teaching assistant in Public International Law. Before matriculating to Harvard, he worked for three-and-a-half years at the Colombian Ministry of Defense acting as a legal adviser in Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. In that role, he worked closely with the military, police, and international institutions, such as the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross, in order to promote respect for international law. Juan has also attended the Hague Academy of International Law and the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies.
Juan is now an HLS PILAC alum. Webpage last updated: November 2021.