Francisco J. Urbina is an Associate Professor of Law at the Notre Dame Law School. His teaching and research focus on human rights, constitutional theory, and jurisprudence. He is the author of A Critique of Proportionality and Balancing (Cambridge University Press 2017) and one of the co-authors of Legislated Rights: Securing Human Rights through Legislation (Cambridge University Press 2018). His work has been published or is forthcoming in leading journals such as the Columbia Law Review, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the Law Quarterly Review, Constitutional Commentary, and the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He has been cited at the European Court of Human Rights, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeals of Ontario, and the Australian Law Reform Commission.

Between 2019 and 2021, he served as a human rights advisor to the Mission of Chile to the Organization of American States and has appeared before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. He graduated summa cum laude from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and holds a Master of Studies in Legal Research and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Oxford.