PUBLIC PROSECUTORS

In this chapter I provide some history on the office of the Public Prosecutor and the difference in institutional design across Latin American countries.

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(2019) "Public Prosecutors' Offices in Latin America" In: Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America, edited by R. Sieder, K. Ansolabehere and T. Alfonso (NJ: Routledge)​.

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A more updated version of this chapter can be found here (in Spanish) here:

(2024) "Las fiscalías en América Latina" en: Manual de Derecho y Sociedad en América Latina, edited by R. Sieder, K. Ansolabehere, and T Alfonso (Colombia: Universidad de los Andes).

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I have most recently began to do research on the use of plea bargains and their impact on perceptions of procedural justice. This is work in progress with my colleague Sebastián Galleguillos, and we hope to see this published soon.

In this article I reflect on the interaction between victims' rights and prosecutorial discretion, and define the concepts of prosecutorial accountability and prosecutorial independence, and explain how, empirically, they can shape the future of human rights cases.

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(2017) "The Role of Prosecutorial Independence and Prosecutorial Accountability in Domestic Human Rights Trials" Journal of Human Rights.

To provide context to what prosecutorial discretion (and the lack of prosecutorial accountability) can mean for victims of human rights abuses, I have written a couple of opinion pieces.

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In this article I reflect on the difficulties that victims of police killings in the United States have to push for justice.

• (August 31, 2015) "To indict, or not to indict?" OpenDemocracy.

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In this other article I reflect on the obstacles to accountability in the human rights crisis in Mexico.

• (January 20, 2015) “Mexico’s Crisis: Between Accountability and Criminal Responsibility.” OpenDemocracy.