Mayra Feddersen is Associate Professor of Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago, Chile, where she serves as deputy director of the Center for Research in Law and Society (CIDS) and as one of the principal researchers within the MIGRA Millennium Nucleus. She received her J.D. from Universidad Diego Portales, her LL.M. from UC Berkeley School of Law, and her Ph.D. from Berkeley’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program in 2017. Prior to joining UAI, she was a professor and researcher at Universidad Diego Portales School of Law and its Human Rights Center, where she coordinated the International Human Rights Law Legal Clinic. She also serves as president of the board of the Centro de Políticas Migratorias (politicasmigratorias.org) and has consulted for numerous nongovernmental, regional, and international agencies.

Feddersen’s research focuses on immigration policy, immigrant labor integration, and sociolegal studies on formal institutions, with particular attention to how migrants navigate and experience legal systems in Latin America. Her work has appeared in Law & Society Review, Globalizations, Latin American Legal Studies, Revista Brasileira de Direito Processual Penal, Revista Chilena de Derecho and Revista de Derecho (Valdivia). With Tomás Greene, she co-authored the first comprehensive book on Chilean migration law (2021; 2nd ed. 2023). At CIDS she participates in the Law and Migration and Institutions projects (derechoysociedad.uai.cl); at MIGRA she leads the Legal Frictions research line (nucleomigra.cl).

Feddersen is an active member of the Law and Society Association, where she participates in the Collaborative Research Network on Citizenship and Immigration (CRN2). She is also a member of the International Consortium of Centers for the Study of Law and Society.