The Annual Guido Di Tella Memorial Lecture: Rights, Claims and Trials: Legal strategies as policy tools

The Annual Guido Di Tella Memorial Lecture: Rights, Claims and Trials: Legal strategies as policy tools will be held in the Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St Antony's College.

Catalina Smulovitz is Vice-President of the University Torcuato Di Tella as well as Professor of Political Science. Professor Smulovitz, who has a PhD in Political Science from Penn State University, has taught in Argentina, the United States and the UK.

She has published extensively on human rights, military-civil relations and the use of law in Latin America. She is currently researching on the way rights are protected at different levels in Argentina. She has published extensively in all these topics. Her more recent publications include “Legal Inequality and Federalism: Domestic Violence Laws in the Argentine Provinces”, LAPS, 2015 as well as a number of contributions to well-known edited volumes.  Professor Smulovitz is researcher of CONICET and has received prizes from the Found Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation and the University of Pennsylvania.