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Julio Ríos-Figueroa is Associate Professor at the Department of Law at ITAM in Mexico City, and a a Non-Resident Fellow at the Neukom Center for the Rule of Law at Stanford University School of Law. Before joining ITAM, he was Professor of Political Science at CIDE. Ríos-Figueroa received his Ph.D. in Politics from New York University (NYU). His research focuses on comparative judicial politics, the rule of law, and empirical legal studies with a focus on the Latin American region.

Ríos-Figueroa is the author of Constitutional Courts as Mediators. Armed Conflict, Civil-Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America as well as co-editor with Gretchen Helmke of the volume Courts in Latin America both published by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Ríos-Figueroa has been a Fellow at the Wilson Center (2022-3), a Hauser Research Scholar at the NYU School of Law (2006-7), Visiting Professor at the Juan March Institute in Madrid (2012-13), and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Stanford´s CASBS (2017-2018). Ríos-Figueroa was the editor of Política y gobierno (2014-2018).