ABOUT

Dr. Arturo Felipe Hernández is a Legal Academic and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Cuba Research Forum in the University of Nottingham. Dr. Hernández’s research focuses on Cuba, its history, and the law. Dr. Hernández’s doctoral dissertation “Cuba’s Constitutional History and the Development of Cuban Constitutionalism”(2025) examined Cuba’s contemporary constitutional history as well as the political and societal implications arising therefrom. In conjunction with his research duties, Dr. Hernández served as longtime Curator to the Hennessy Collection at the University of Nottingham; the largest and most comprehensive open-access collection of Cuban materials in Europe and the eastern hemisphere. Dr. Hernández holds a Ph.D. in Constitutional History & Latin American Studies, from the University of Nottingham (2025), a Juris Doctor in Law from the Florida International University College of Law (2018), and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Florida International University (2015).