Karina Ansolabehere Bio

Karina Ansolabehere: Researcher and professor in The Latin American School of Social Sciences, campus Mexico (FLACSO-MEXICO) since 2003. She is a member of the National Researchers System of Mexico. Her topics of interest are: judicial politics, human rights, judicialization of human rights, legal cultures and political theory, with a special focus on Latin America. She has taught courses on the sociology of law, judicial politics, human rights and political theory. She has a degree in sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and a PhD in Social Sciences with an emphasis on Political Sciences from FLACSO-Mexico. She is the author of the book La política desde la justicia. Cortes Supremas Gobierno y Democracia en Argentina y México (2007) (The Policy from the Justice. Supreme Courts, Government and Democracy in Argentina and Mexico) and also the scientific director of the Spanish edition of the Diccionario de Derechos Humanos. Cultura de la ciudadanía en la era de la globalización (2009) (Human Rights Dictionary. Culture of Citizenship in the Globalization Era).  In addition, she has published articles various articles on the legal system in Latin America such as “More Power, More Rights? The Supreme Court and Society in Mexico” (2010) in Legal Cultures and Political Activism in Latin America. During the 2012-2013 academic year, she was a visiting professor of the Human Rights Program in the University of Minnesota and is currently working on a book about the judicial politics of human rights.