Elvira Maria Restrepo, Ph.D.

(Oxford University)

visiting Assistant Professor

• erestrepo@mail.as.miami.edu
• 305-284-4796

Dr. Restrepo holds a Doctorate in Politics from Oxford University and an LLM from Harvard University Law School. Her current research interests include comparative studies in justice, crime and conflict -- both at the level of individual case-studies and at the level of aggregated statistics. She has a book titled "The Colombian Criminal Justice in Crisis: Fear and Distrust" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003; ISBN 0333921631) and has research papers published in a variety of international, peer-reviewed journals. From 2003-2007, she was Assistant Professor in the Economics Department at the Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá, Colombia) where she taught courses on the interplay between crime and conflict. She has been a member of CEDE (Universidad de los Andes) and Fedesarrollo (the economics think-tank), where she worked mainly in topics related to crime, terrorism, criminal justice and conflict. Member of the Board of Trustees Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia

Publications:

• Editor (with Bruce Bagley) The Demobilization of the Colombian Paramilitaries, 2003-2010. Editorial Planeta, Bogota, Forthcoming
• "Paramilitary Demobilization in Colombia: Transitional Justice in the Midst of the Ongoing Conflict" of referred book Transitional Justice and Democratic Consolidation: Comparing the Effectiveness of the Accountability Mechanisms in Eastern Europe and Latin America, Whitehead, L et al. (eds.); United Nations University Press, Forthcoming
• "The Pursuit of Efficiency and the Colombian Criminal Justice System" of referred book Criminality, Public Security and the Challenges to Democracy in Latin America, Whitehead, L and M. Bergman (eds.), Notre Dame Press, 2009

Courses taught:

• INS 385 Crime and Justice in Latin-America (new course)
• INS 511 Violence: from the Holocaust to 9/11 (new course)
• INS 562 Transitional Justice: Africa, LA and Europe
• INS 584 Crime and Punishment in the Americas