HOME CV RESEARCH COURSES LINKS CONTACT
Assistant Professor
Department of
Political Studies
Center for Research and Teaching in Economics, CIDE
Mexico City
Julio Rios-Figueroa is Assistant Professor at the Division of Political Studies at CIDE, in Mexico City. He received his Ph.D. from New York University (NYU) in 2006. He is a former Hauser Research Scholar at NYU's School of Law.
Professor Rios-Figueroa's
research focuses in comparative political institutions, constitutionalism, law
and courts, and Latin American politics. His articles have appeared in journals such as
Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Latin American
Politics and Latin American Politics and Society. He is co-editor with Gretchen Hemke of the forthcoming volume Courts in Latin
America, and he is
currently working on a book-length project on the institutional determinants of
the judicial construction of due process rights in Latin America.