Valeria Vegh Weis

Valeria Vegh Weis is an Argentine-German criminologist and legal scholar whose work spans criminology, criminal law, international criminal law and transitional justice, examined through decolonial and socio-legal frameworks. She leads a research group at the School of Law of the University of Konstanz and holds professorships at the University of Buenos Aires and the National University of Quilmes. Author of more than one hundred articles and book chapters across several languages, she wrote the Principles on Public Policies for Memory in the Americas, later endorsed by the Organization of American States, and her research has been supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Max Planck Society. The American Society of Criminology named her its Critical Criminologist of the Year.