Short-CV

Valeria Vegh Weis, LL.M, PhD., is a Faculty Member at Buenos Aires University (UBA) and National Quilmes University (Argentina). She is currently a Research Fellow at Universität Konstanz Zukunftskolleg. Engaged with a Southern and post-colonial perspective, her research involves the systematization of the legal contributions of bottom-up actors in the aftermath of mass atrocities. The research relies on the gathering of sentences, laws, and public policy throughout long historical periods and on the identification of the actors involved. From 2019 to 2021, Vegh Weis was an Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Researcher at Freie Universität Berlin, where she particularly explored the cases of post-Nazi Germany and post-dictatorial Argentina. She holds a Ph.D. in Law and an LL.M. in Criminal Law from UBA and an LL.M. in International Legal Studies from New York University. She has held different fellowships including the Fulbright and the Hauser Global Scholarships. Her book Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity (BRILL 2017, Haymarket Books 2018) was awarded the Choice Award by the American Library Association and the Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Vegh Weis has also engaged with science communication, making scientific knowledge and data accessible to the general public. With this in mind, she co-authored of Bienvenidos al Lawfare with Raúl Zaffaroni and Cristina Caamaño (in Spanish Capital Intelectual 2020, in Portuguese Tirant Le Blanch 2021, in English Brill 2023) and Criminalization of Activism (Routledge 2021).

Research-related publications

• Vegh Weis, Valeria. (2022). Exploring the First World’s First Successful Truth Commission: Argentina’s CONADEP and the Role of Victims in Truth-Seeking, Journal of Human Rights Practice, online first, XX, 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhuman/huac060
• Vegh Weis, Valeria; Friedrichs, David O. (2021) “Covid-19 and the U.S. Health Care Industry. Towards a ‘Critical Health Criminology’ within State Crime Studies.” State Crime Journal, vol. 10, n. 1, pp. 126-146. https://doi.org/10.13169/statecrime.10.1.0126
• Vegh Weis, Valeria; de Carvalho, Salo; Goyes, David. (2020). “Politics and Indigenous Victimization: The Case of Brazil.” British Journal of Criminology, vol. 61, pp. 251-271. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azaa060