Diana Sofía Jara León is a fifth-year Law student at Universidad Diego Portales. Her training brings together several areas of law, with Criminal Law and Constitutional Law as her main fields of interest. Her research focuses on topics such as femicide and gender perspectives in Chilean case law.
She is currently working on her undergraduate thesis to obtain the degree of Bachelor of Legal and Social Sciences, titled “Femicidio frustrado, aplicación y estándares probatorios en la jurisprudencia chilena”, under the supervision of her seminar professor, Dr. Lidia Casas Becerra. Her research focuses on analyzing, systematizing, and comparing evidentiary standards in Chilean case law on the crime of attempted femicide, and on identifying whether gender-sensitive reasoning is present in both first-instance courts and the Supreme Court, between 2020 and 2022.
The work seeks to identify and demonstrate whether courts adopt a gender-sensitive perspective in the adjudication of attempted femicide cases.