# Mary Beloff

Mary Beloff is an Argentine jurist, Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the University of Buenos Aires and General Public prosecutor of Political crime, Human Rights and Community Services of the Procuración General de la Nación (Office of the Attorney General) of the Argentinian Republic from the year 2007.

## Education and Legal Career

She completed her secondary studies at the National School of Buenos Aires and graduated as a lawyer with an honors diploma at the University of Buenos Aires.
Her academic background includes Master of Laws (LL.M) from Harvard University and a doctorate in Criminal Law from the University of Buenos Aires where she graduated with the highest distinction (summa cum laude), earning the Empower Prize.
She is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law, University of Buenos Aires. She also holds the position of Senior Advisor at the same institution and directs the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology.
The Argentine jurist belongs to the first generation trained under the new Curriculum of Studies of the Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires.
After an extensive judicial career at the federal and national levels, as well as in the Upper Court of Justice of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, she was appointed through a public selection process and approved by the Argentine Senate as the General Prosecutor for Criminal Policy, Human Rights, and Community Services at the Office of the Attorney General of Argentina.
When still a university student, she participated in the Magazine Lessons and Essays and created the legal critique Magazine NO HAY DERECHO, both edited by distinguished students from the University of Buenos Aires.
In 2003 she founded and still co-directs the Academy Magazine first published that same year. This legal magazine is the first published in Spanish and Portuguese dedicated exclusively to subjects related to the education of law. It has published numerous books, articles, and other legal works related to criminal law, to the criminal procedure, and criminology. Additionally, it has created recognized original conceptual frameworks for the study of women rights and children rights.

## Influence in the Latin American Law

Mary Beloff has been involved in numerous legal and institutional reform processes related to criminal justice and human rights in Latin America.
She has actively participated as a legal advisor for several Latin American countries and international organizations (UNICEF, IDB, UNOPS, ILANUD, OAS, UNDP) in the adoption of derivative norms of international human rights law at the national level across the region. Among these are various criminal procedural codes as well as laws related to juvenile justice and the protection of children's rights. A recognized academic in these fields, she has also been responsible for years for the continuous training of, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and members of NGOs on the implementation of these international human rights norms in Latin America and the Caribbean.
She designed and taught the first course on Juvenile Justice and Children's Rights at the University of Buenos Aires, where she became the first woman to hold the Chair of Criminal law and Criminal Procedure by merit-based selection.
As a jurist, she has made important contributions to national and regional jurisprudence to the direct application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international instruments in domestic law.
In the inter-American field, Mary Beloff founded and served as Academic Director of the Center for Legal Studies on Childhood and Youth at the Institute of Comparative Studies in Criminal Sciences (INECIP) in Argentina, as well as its counterparts in El Salvador and Guatemala, between 1994 and 2001.
Among her contributions in the international field, the following can be mentioned:
* Member of the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
* Member of the Advisory board of Experts of the United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, 2018/2019.
* Member of the Advisory board of Experts of the United Nations Study on Violence against Children, 2004/2006.
* Main aide of the Main advisor to the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child of the Inter-American Commission of Human rights, 2002.
* Beloff, Mary, Rights of the Child. Their special protection in the inter-American system. Systematic analysis of fundamental failures, Buenos Aires, Publisher Hammurabi, 1° edition, 2018 ISBN 978-950-741-902-7 and 2° edition, 2019 ISBN 978-950-741-104-5
* Beloff, Mary (Director), New problems of the juvenile justice, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2017 ISBN 978-987-745-077-4
* Beloff, Mary, What do with the juvenile justice?, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2016 ISBN 978-987-745-054-5
* Beloff, Mary, Protection to the childhood in Latin America. Fortresses and weaknesses, Monterrey, Publishing Coordination of the Judicial Power again León, 2014
* Beloff, Mary (Director), Studios on penal age and rights of the Child, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2013 ISBN 978-987-745-025-5
* Beloff, Mary, Can sanction them penal be a system of social inclusion?, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2011 ISBN 978-987-745-002-5
* Beloff, Mary, Reform of the penal right in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Publishing Albatross, 2010 ISBN 978-950-24-1125-1