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Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni
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Cristina Caamaño
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Valeria Vegh Weis
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  • Cristina Caamaño

    Comptroller of the Argentine Federal Intelligence Agency, member of the inecip Board of Directors, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law. She was a prosecutor for the Correctional and Criminal Court of Appeals, Secretary of the Operational Security for the Department of National Security, Director of the Committee on Criminal Law, Lecturer at the University of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and Lecturer and Member of the Advisory Board for the uba Higher Education in Federal Prison Program. She is the author of Manual práctico para defenderse de la cárcel (Inecip, 2006), Manual para el preso extranjero (Inecip, 2009), and El delito de administración fraudulenta (Fabian Di, 2013). She was the Argentine expert in Ejecución de la pena privativa de libertad: una mirada comparada, published by the Eurosocial Program in 2014.

  • Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni

    Doctor of Juridical Sciences, Notary, Professor Emeritus of the University of Buenos Aires, Secretary General of the Latin American Association of Criminology and Penal Law, and Vice President of the International Association of Penal Law. He holds honorary degrees from forty-five Latin American and European universities. In 2009 he received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He served as a Justice of the Argentine Supreme Court, and as General Director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. He is currently serving as a judge on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. He is the author of Criminology and Criminal Policy Movements (University Press of America, 2013), Manual de Derecho Penal (Ediar, 2006), Tratado de Derecho Penal. Parte General (Ediar, 2004), Derecho Penal (Ediar, 2000) and La Palabra de los Muertos (Ediar, 2011).

  • Valera Vegh Weis

    Doctor of Juridical Sciences (uba), Specialist in Penal Law (uba), and Magistrate in International Public Law (New York University). She is currently a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg at Konstanz University in Germany. She was previously an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (Berlin Freie Universität) and an Associate Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. She is also a Lecturer of Criminology and Transitional Justice at the uba School of Law and at the National University of Quilmes, and Vicepresident of the Latin American Institute of Criminology and Social Development. She is the author of Criminalization of Activism (Routledge, 2021) and Marxism and Criminology: A History of Penal Selectivity (Brill, 2017, and Haymarket Books, 2018), winner of the 2017 Choice Book Award and the 2019 Outstanding Book Award. She was also awarded the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award in 2021.

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