Karla Escobar

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Karla Luzmer Escobar Hernández is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt, Germany, specializing in legal history, indigenous legal practices, and transmedia narratives. She holds degrees in History and Political Science from the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia), where she also earned a Master's in History, followed by a Master's in History of the Hispanic World at the Universitat Jaume I in Spain. Her doctoral studies were completed at the Faculty of Law at Universidad de los Andes and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (2020). Her most recent book is Camino y ruptura. Una historia gráfica de las prácticas jurídicas indígenas en el Cauca a principios del siglo XX (2024).