Valeria Vegh Weis

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 thesis on a Marxist perspective of criminal selectivity.^[7] She received also received funding from CONICET, Hauser Global,^[8] the International Law and Human Rights ^[9] and the Transitional Justice Program,^[10] among many others. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Strathmore University, Freie Universitat Berlin,^[11]University of Oxford^[12] and Waseda University^[13] and a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.^[14] She has been serving on the Argentinean Judiciary since 2005 ^[15] and has also worked as Legal Expert at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights ^[16]

• 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.^[17][18][19] 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.^[20] Art cover by Enzo Leone. The book also received the Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.