BOOKS

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Michel, V. (2018) Prosecutorial Accountability and Victims' Rights in Latin America. NY: Cambridge University Press. 

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ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS

 

1. Michel, V. & Shannon D. Walsh (2026) “Adaptation and Nongovernmental Organizations: An Ecological Approach for Understanding NGO-State Interactions in the Struggle to End Violence against Women.” International Studies Quarterly 70: 1-14.

2. Michel, V. (2020) “Judicial Reform and Legal Opportunity Structure: The Emergence of Strategic Litigation Against Femicide in Mexico” Studies in Law, Politics, and Society 82: 27-54. 

3. Michel, V. (2017) “The Role of Prosecutorial Independence and Prosecutorial Accountability in Human Rights Trials” Journal of Human Rights 1(2): 193-219.

4. Dancy, Geoff and V. Michel (2016) “Human Rights Enforcement from Below: Private Actors and Human Rights Prosecutions in Europe and Latin America”  International Studies Quarterly 60(1): 173-188. 

5. Michel, V. and Kathryn Sikkink (2013) “Human Rights Prosecutions and the Participation Rights of Victims in Latin America”  Law and Society Review 47(4): 873-907. 

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ARTICLES IN LAW JOURNALS

 

1. Michel, V. (forthcoming) “Citizen Participation in Criminal Proceedings: A Comparative Review of 17 Latin American Countries”  Special Issue The Yale Law Journal

2. Michel, V. (2021) “Institutional Design, Prosecutorial Independence, and Accountability: Lessons from the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG)” Laws 10 (3): 58. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws10030058

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CHAPTERS FOR EDITED VOLUMES

 

1. Michel, V. & S. Galleguillos (forthcoming) "A New Institution is Born: The emergence of the Victims' Defense Office in Panama and Chile.” In Research Handbook on Victims, Rights, and Justice edited by Robyn Holder, Verónica Michel, and Alice Bosma (NY: Edward Elgar Publishing). 

2. Michel, V. (2024) “Las fiscalías en América Latina” In: Manual de Derecho y Sociedad en América Latina, edited by Rachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere, and Tatiana Alfonso (Colombia: Universidad de los Andes). 

3. Michel, V. (2019) “Human Rights in Post-Transitional Societies” In: Human Rights Institutions, edited by Gord DiGiacomo and Susan Kang (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

4. Michel, V. (2019) “Public Prosecutors’ Offices in Latin America” In: Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America, edited by Rachel Sieder, Karina Ansolabehere, and Tatiana Alfonso (NJ: Routledge).

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BOOK REVIEWS

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1. Michel. V. (2023) “Book Review: Beyond High Courts: The Justice Complex in Latin America by Ingram, C. Mathew & Kapiszewski, Diana (Eds.)” Bulletin of Latin American Research 42(3): 474-475. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/blar.13496

2. Michel, V. (2021) “Book Review: Criminalizing Atrocity: The  Global Spread of Criminal Laws against International Crimes by Mark S. Berlin” Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal 15(1): 137-140. DOI:  https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.15.1.1825

3. Michel, V. (2019) “Book Review: Mexico’s Human Rights Crisis. Edited by Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz and Barbara Frey. (Philadelphia:  University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019)”  International Affairs 95(5): 1204–1205. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiz149

4. Michel,  V. (2009) “Book Review: Judicial Reform as Political Insurance: Argentina, Peru, and Mexico in the 1990s by Jodi S. Finkel (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008)”  Political Science Quarterly 124(2): 379-380.

 

 

REPORTS

 

1. Michel, V., Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Capellán, J., Andrade, L., Fanarraga, I., Galleguillos, S., & Kaufman, I. (2024). Accusatorial Transition and Inmate Survey Findings: Guatemala. New York, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

2. Michel, V., Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Capellán, J., Andrade, L., Fanarraga, I., Galleguillos, S. y Kaufman, I. (2024). Transición al Sistema Penal Acusatorio y Resultados de la Encuesta a Personas Privadas de Libertad: Guatemala. Nueva York, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

3. Michel, V., Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Capellán, J., Andrade, L., Fanarraga, I., Galleguillos, S., & Kaufman, I. (2024). Accusatorial Transition and Inmate Survey Findings: Panama. New York, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

4. Michel, V., Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Capellán, J., Andrade, L., Fanarraga, I., Galleguillos, S. y Kaufman, I. (2024). Transición al Sistema Penal Acusatorio y Resultados de la Encuesta a Personas Privadas de Libertad: Panamá. Nueva York, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

5. Koetzle, D., Mellow, Michel, V., Andrade, L., Fanarraga, I., Galleguillos, S., & Kaufman, I. (2024). Accusatorial Transition and Inmate Survey Findings: Honduras. New York, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

6. Koetzle, D., Mellow, J., Michel, V., Andrade, L., Fanarraga, I., Galleguillos, S. y Kaufman, I. (2024). Transición al Sistema Penal Acusatorio y Resultados de la Encuesta a Personas Privadas de Libertad: Honduras. Nueva York, NY: John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

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PUBLICLY ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP

 

1. (August 31, 2015) “To indict, or not to indict” . Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/veronica-michel/to-indict-or-not-to-indict

2. (January 20, 2015) “Mexico’s Crisis: Between Accountability and Criminal Responsibility.”Available at: https://www.opendemocracy.net/open-security/veronica-michel/mexico’s-crisis-between-accountability-and-criminal-responsibility