Valeria Vegh Weis

Valeria Vegh Weis

Valeria Vegh Weis is a prolific Argentinean-German author who has had more than 100 articles and book chapters published in Spanish and English ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]} ,. She specializes in criminology, criminal law, international criminal law and transitional justice, which she approaches from a decolonial and socio-legal perspective. She is currently working as a Senior Researcher at Konstanz Universität Zukunftskolleg, 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. ^[5] She is the Vice President of the Instituto Latinoamericano de Criminología y Desarrollo Social . Vegh Weis won several awards, including the Critical Criminology of the Year Award by the American Society of Criminology .

Vegh Weis was previously an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Freie Universitat Berlin and a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History 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 ^[6] 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 PhD thesis on a Marxist perspective of criminal selectivity. ^[7] . She received the CONICET, Fulbright and Hauser Global Scholarships, ^[8] the International Law and Human Rights ^[9] and the Transitional Justice Fellowship, ^[10] among many others awards. She has been a Lecturer for the World Health Organization, ^[11] a Visiting Professor at Strathmore University, a Visiting Researcher at Freie Universitat Berlin ^[12] , a Visiting Scholar at the University of Oxford ^[13] and Waseda University ^[14] and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. ^[15] . She has been serving on the Argentinean Judiciary since 2005 ^[16] and has also worked as Legal Expert at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights where she was responsible for drafting the Principles on Public Policies on Memory in the Americas ^[17] .

Books

• Gomez Alcorta, Vegh Weis (2025) Jujuy. El laboratorio de la represión .
• Vegh Weis (2024) Todo Preso es Político. Una Historia de la (In)Justicia Penal. CLACSO .
• Zaffaroni, Caamaño, Vegh Weis (2020) Bienvenidos al Lawfare: Manual para Destruir al Derecho Penal. Capital Intelectual .
• Zaffaroni, Caamaño, Vegh Weis (2023), Lawfare: The Criminalisation of Politics in the Global South. Haymarket .
• Vegh Weis, Valeria (2021). Criminalization of Activism. Historical, Present and Future Perspectives .
• Vegh Weis, Valeria (2017). Marxism and Criminology. A History of Criminal Selectivity. Boston: Brill. ISBN   978-90-04-31956-1. Haymarket Books (2018) ISBN   9781608469307. ^{[18] [19] [20]} 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. ^[21] Art cover by Enzo Leone. The book also received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.

References

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15. "Home | Max Planck Institute for European Legal History". www.rg.mpg.de. Retrieved 2018-11-06.
16. "DG 47-12". Ministerio Público de la Defensa.
17. "OAS - Organization of American States: Democracy for peace, security, and development". August 2009.
18. Altman, Suppa; Manuel, Juan (2017). "Marxism and Criminology. A History of Criminal Selectivity". Revista de Historia del Derecho (53): 0. ISSN   1853-1784.
19. DeKeseredy, Walter S (9 April 2018). "Valeria Vegh Weis. Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity". Punishment & Society. 21 (3): 372–375. doi:10.1177/1462474518769019. S2CID   149750051.
20. Lea, John (21 March 2018). "Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity. By Valeria Vegh Weis (Leiden: Brill (hdbk), 2017, €138, Chicago: Haymarket Books (pbck), 2018, 340pp" . The British Journal of Criminology. 58 (4): 1020–1022. doi:10.1093/bjc/azy007.
21. "Choice Awards Brill Publications as "Outstanding Academic Titles"". Brill. 22 February 2018.