Dr Valeria Vázquez Guevara

Dr Valeria Vázquez Guevara

Global Academic Fellow

PhD, Melbourne Law School, Australia
MA, University of Notre Dame, US
MA, Oñati IISL, Basque Country/Spain
LLB, University of Granada, Spain

Biography

Dr Valeria Vázquez Guevara is a Salvadoran-Spanish legal scholar. Valeria’s research engages with law-and-humanities methodologies to address questions of international law, its institutions, contestations, and geopolitical implications, especially between North-South and South-South states and actors. The research builds on Valeria’s personal and professional experiences in international development and peacebuilding projects in El Salvador, Spain, the Basque Country, and South Africa.

Valeria’s first monograph, Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority is under contract with Cambridge University Press. The book examines how Truth Commissions deal with the plurality of (rival) accounts that exist across communities to establish an authoritative account of the past. The book expands on Valeria’s doctoral thesis at Melbourne Law School, where she worked under the supervision of Professors Sundhya Pahuja and Shaun McVeigh. Valeria’s thesis won the University of Melbourne’s Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis and Melbourne Law School’s Harold Luntz Prize for Best Doctoral Thesis. Valeria’s research has been published in Leiden Journal of International Law, London Review of International Law, or the Routledge Handbook of International Law and the Humanities.

Valeria is also engaged in two research collaborations. One is with Dr Claerwen O’Hara (Melbourne Law School) focusing on international law, populism and alternative internationalisms. The other collaboration is with Dr Eliana Cusato (University of Amsterdam’s Centre for International Law) examining the relationship between international law and reparations.

Valeria’s teaching experience includes Land/Property Law, Public International Law and Legal Theory. She has also been invited to give guest lectures on international law in institutions in Australia, Brazil, Switzerland, Spain and others.

Valeria serves as member of the executive committee of the Law, Literature and Humanities Association of Australasia, and as co-chair of the History and Theory of International Law Interest Group of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (ANZSIL). Between 2021-2023 Valeria was Managing Editor and Editorial Board member of the Australian Feminist Law Journal.