Bowden Resident Fellow

2025-2026

Juan Miguel Matheus is a professor of Political and Constitutional Theory at Universidad Monteávila (Caracas, Venezuela). He obtained his Ph.D. in Constitutional Law from the University of Navarra (Pamplona, Spain) and has been a visiting professor at several universities across Ibero-America. He is also an Affiliate at the Constitutional Law Center of Stanford University.

In 2015, he was elected as a Deputy to the National Assembly of Venezuela, where he served as President of the Committee for the Defense of the Constitution and the Committee for the Reform of the Judiciary.

Currently, he is developing the research lines “The Constitutional Law of Democratization” and “The Constitutional Law of Democratic Resilience.”