Biography
Fernando J. Loayza Jordán joined the law school as a visiting assistant professor in 2024, teaching federal income tax and law and society.
His scholarship focuses on the interaction between taxation and democracy, contesting the traditional ways of understanding the fiscal social contract and exploring new approaches to tax citizenship. He also explores the tension between domestic democracies and the international tax governance system. In addition, he works on comparative constitutional law, studying how different countries face challenges to their structure of separation of powers. He has presented his work in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States.
He has also written extensively about Peruvian legal and political issues. His work has been cited by the Peruvian Tax Court and his commentary has appeared in media outlets in different countries, including Peru, India, and Spain. He has also translated pieces from the Journal of Legal Studies and the Yale Law Journal into Spanish.
Before joining the law school, he taught a course on tax and democracy at Yale University, where he also taught in the Yale Young Global Scholars Program, served as a Tutor in Law, and was awarded the Teaching Innovation Project Grant for Teaching and Learning. He has also served as an Associate Professor of Law at Jindal Global Law School (India), where he taught courses on critical legal studies; as a Lecturer at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, where he taught courses on Tax Planning; and as a Lecturer at Universidad del Pacifico (Peru), where he taught courses on the interaction between law, economics, and politics. He has also received teaching awards both in India and Peru.
He is a doctoral candidate at Yale Law School, where he also earned his LL.M. While at Yale, he was affiliated with the Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS) at the MacMillan Center and served as Senior Advisor of the Yale Society of International Law and as a Board Member of the Latinx Law Student Association and the Law and Political Economy Group. He earned his LL.B. from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, where he graduated summa cum laude. He became the youngest winner of the Peruvian Institute of Tax Law Research Award for his undergrad thesis on the Peruvian Transfer Pricing Regime. He has also studied public policy at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain) and international taxation at Leiden University (Netherlands).
Before entering legal academia, he worked for several years in tax consulting for PwC, where he became a Senior Manager of Tax and Legal Services, handling matters of international taxation and transactional taxation for clients in over 40 jurisdictions. After leaving PwC, he worked as an independent consultant on tax and policy issues and as a researcher for the Tax Justice Network.