Luis F. Soto-Tamayo

Welcome!

I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism (GCDC), UCL Faculty of Laws. 

My research focuses on courts and democratic resilience, accountability and governance, and rule of law and development. I particularly explore, from a comparative perspective, how political and judicial institutions shape state capacity and development. I build original datasets using computational methods like web scraping, LLMs, and machine learning, and analyze them with causal inference, survey experiments, and social network analysis. The aim is to connect empirical analysis to the theoretical questions that matter most at the intersection of comparative politics, public law, and governance.

I hold a PhD in Politics Research from the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. I am a recipient of the London Interdisciplinary Social Science Doctoral Training Partnership (LISS-DTP) studentship, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). Prior the PhD, I worked in Mexico’s federal public sector, and in the Centre for Research and Economic Teaching (CIDE) as a research assistant.