Valeria Vegh Weis
Valeria Vegh Weis is a Senior Researcher at,
where she focuses on the role of victim organisations dealing with the legacies of massive human rights violations. She is also an Associate Professor at Universidad Madres de Plaza de Mayo, and an Adjunct Professor at Buenos Aires University and Quilmes National University. She is the Vice President of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Criminología y Desarrollo Social .
She is a prolific Argentinean-German author who has had more than 100 articles and book chapters published in Spanish, English, Portuguese and German . She specializes in criminology, criminal law, international criminal law and transitional justice, which she approaches from a decolonial and socio-legal perspective. Vegh Weis won several awards, including the Critical Criminology of the Year Award by the American Society of Criminology . She is the author of the Principles on Public Policies for Memory in the Americas approved by the Organization of American States .
Vegh Weis was previously an at and a Research Associate at the where she focused on the role of the Global South in the development of transnational criminal regimes.
Biography
Vegh Weis graduated summa cum laude from Buenos Aires University Law School. She pursued post-graduate studies in Criminal Law at Buenos Aires University School of Law and a Master in International Legal Studies at New York University. She also pursued a PhD in Law at the same university and defended her thesis on a Marxist perspective of criminal selectivity.She received funding from CONICET, the Fulbright Commission,, the International Law and Human Rights and the Transitional Justice Program, among many others. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Strathmore University, Freie Universitat Berlin,,University of Oxford and Waseda University and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. She has been serving on the Argentinean Judiciary since 2005 and has also worked as Legal Expert at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Books
- Gomez Alcorta, Vegh Weis Jujuy. El laboratorio de la represión .
- Vegh Weis Todo Preso es Político. Una Historia de la Justicia Penal. CLACSO .
- Zaffaroni, Caamaño, Vegh Weis Bienvenidos al Lawfare: Manual para Destruir al Derecho Penal. Capital Intelectual .
- Zaffaroni, Caamaño, Vegh Weis, Lawfare: The Criminalisation of Politics in the Global South. Haymarket .
- Vegh Weis, Valeria. Criminalization of Activism. Historical, Present and Future Perspectives .
- Vegh Weis, Valeria. Marxism and Criminology. A History of Criminal Selectivity. Boston: Brill.. Haymarket Books . The preface was written by Kent University Professor Roger Matthews and the foreword was authored by UC Berkeley Professor of Law Jonathan Simon. The book received the American Library Association Outstanding Academic Title award i. Art cover by Enzo Leone. The book also received the .