Mary Beloff

She completed her secondary education at the National School of Buenos Aires and subsequently obtained a law degree with honors from the University of Buenos Aires.{{Cite web |last=UBA Derecho |title=Mary Beloff |url=http://www.derecho.uba.ar/investigacion/investigadores/cv/mary-beloff.php |access-date=2024-07-10}}

Her advanced academic qualifications include a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from Harvard University and a Doctor of Laws (SJD/PhD) in Criminal Law from the University of Buenos Aires, where she graduated summa cum laude and was the recipient of the Empower Prize.{{Cite web |title=Mary Beloff en la Universidad de Buenos Aires |url=https://www.derecho.uba.ar/investigacion/investigadores/cv/mary-beloff.php |access-date=2024-11-12}}

She holds the title of Full Professor of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires. Additionally, she serves as a Senior Advisor within the same institution and holds the position of Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology.{{Cite web |title=Curriculum Vitae de Mary Beloff - UBA Derecho |url=https://www.derecho.uba.ar/investigacion/investigadores/cv/mary-beloff.php |access-date=2024-11-12}}

The Argentine jurist belongs to the first cohort of professionals trained under the revised academic program of the Faculty of Law at the University of Buenos Aires.

Following a distinguished judicial career at the federal and national levels, as well as in the Supreme Court of Justice of Buenos Aires, she was appointed through a public competitive examination process and subsequently confirmed by the Argentine Senate to the position of General Prosecutor for Criminal Policy, Human Rights, and Community Services at the Office of the Attorney General of the Argentine Republic.

During her tenure as a university student, she contributed articles to the journal Magazine Lessons and Essays and founded the legal critique journal NO HAY DERECHO, both of which were edited by prominent students from the University of Buenos Aires.{{Cite web |last=Archivo Histórico de Revistas Argentinas |title=NO HAY DERECHO |url=https://ahira.com.ar/revistas/no-hay-derecho/ |access-date=2024-07-10}}

In 2003, she co-founded and continues to serve as co-director of Academy Magazine, a legal journal first published in that year. The publication holds the distinction of being the first journal published bilingually in Spanish and Portuguese, exclusively dedicated to legal education.{{Cite web |last=UBA Derecho |title=Academia. Revista sobre Enseñanza del Derecho |url=http://www.derecho.uba.ar/publicaciones/rev_academia/ |access-date=2024-07-10}} It has disseminated numerous scholarly works—including books and articles—in the fields of Criminal law, Criminal procedure, and Criminology. Moreover, the journal has contributed original conceptual frameworks that have been recognized in the study of women’s rights and children’s rights.

Mary Beloff has actively participated in numerous legal and institutional reform initiatives concerning criminal justice and human rights throughout Latin America.{{Cite web |last=Ministerio Público do Estado de São Paulo (MPSP) |title=Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UFRGS - Volumen 13, Número 2 |url=https://www.mpsp.mp.br/portal/page/portal/documentacao_e_divulgacao/doc_biblioteca/bibli_servicos_produtos/bibli_informativo/bibli_inf_2006/Cad-PPGDir-UFGRS_v.13_n.2.02.pdf |access-date=2024-11-20}}

She has served as a legal advisor to various Latin American nations and international organizations, including UNICEF,{{Cite web |last=UNICEF |title=Sitio oficial de UNICEF |url=https://www.unicef.org |access-date=2024-11-19}} IDB,{{Cite web |last=Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo |title=Sitio oficial del BID |url=https://www.iadb.org/es |access-date=2024-11-19}} UNOPS,{{Cite web |last=UNOPS |title=Sitio oficial de UNOPS |url=https://www.unops.org |access-date=2024-11-19}} ILANUD,{{Cite web |last=ILANUD |title=Sitio oficial del ILANUD |url=http://www.ilanud.or.cr |access-date=2024-11-19}} OAS,{{Cite web |last=Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA) |title=Sitio oficial de la OEA |url=https://www.oas.org |access-date=2024-11-19}} UNDP,{{Cite web |last=Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo (PNUD) |title=Official site of the UNDP |url=https://www.undp.org |access-date=2024-11-19}} assisting in the domestication of norms derived from international human rights law{{Cite web |last=Universidad de Palermo |title=Revista Jurídica Año 20 - Número 2 |url=https://www.palermo.edu/derecho/revista_juridica/pub-20-2/Revista_Juridica_Ano20-N2_09.pdf |access-date=2024-11-13}} throughout the region. This engagement has encompassed the development of criminal procedure codes, as well as legislation pertaining to juvenile justice and the protection of the rights of the child.{{Cite web |last=Juragentium |title=Beloff, Mary - Biografía |url=https://www.juragentium.org/topics/latina/es/beloff.htm |access-date=2024-11-20}}{{Cite web |last=Comité de los Derechos del Niño |title=Composición Comité de los Derechos del Niño |url=https://www.ohchr.org/es/treaty-bodies/crc/membership |access-date=2024-07-10}}

As a distinguished academic in these areas, she has dedicated considerable effort to the ongoing training of judges, prosecutors, public defenders, and representatives of non-governmental organizations on the application of international human rights norms in Latin America and the Caribbean.{{Cite web |last=H. Tribunal Superior de Justicia del Estado de Oaxaca |title=Gaceta Judicial |url=https://www.tribunaloaxaca.gob.mx/seccionesInformativas/gacetas/0ff8033cf9437c213ee13937b1c4c455/659.pdf |access-date=2024-11-13}}

She designed and taught the inaugural 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 through a merit-based selection process.

In her capacity as a jurist, she has significantly contributed to national and regional jurisprudence through the direct application of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other pertinent international instruments within domestic legal frameworks.

In the Inter-American sphere, Mary Beloff established and established and held the position of 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.{{Cite web |last=Comité de los Derechos del Niño |title=Curriculum Vitae de Beloff, Integrante del Comité de los Derechos del Niño |url=https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/crc/cvmembers/CV-crc-Beloff.pdf |access-date=2024-11-20}}
• Member of the Advisory board of Experts of the [https://www.ohchr.org/es/children-deprived-of-liberty United Nations Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty], 2018/2019.{{Cite web |last=Naciones Unidas |title=Estudio de Naciones Unidas sobre niños privados de libertad |url=https://www.ohchr.org/es/children-deprived-of-liberty |access-date=2024-11-11}}
• Member of the Advisory board of Experts of the [https://violenceagainstchildren.un.org/es/node/902 United Nations Study on Violence against Children], 2004/2006.{{Cite web |last=Oficina del Alto Comisionado de las Naciones Unidas para los Derechos Humanos |title=Estudio de las Naciones Unidas sobre la Violencia contra los Niños |url=https://www.ohchr.org/es/treaty-bodies/crc/united-nations-study-violence-against-children |access-date=2024-07-10}}
• Main aide of the [https://cidh.oas.org/countryrep/Infancia2sp/Infancia2cap1.sp.htm Main advisor to the Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child] of the Inter-American Commission of Human rights, 2002.{{Cite web |last=Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos |title=Funciones de la Relatoría sobre los Derechos de la Niñez |url=https://www.oas.org/es/cidh/infancia/mandato/funciones.asp |access-date=2024-07-10}}
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=37656&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% 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
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=35539&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% Beloff, Mary (Director), New problems of the juvenile justice, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2017] ISBN 978-987-745-077-4
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=35413&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% Beloff, Mary, What do with the juvenile justice?, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2016] ISBN 978-987-745-054-5
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=34348&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% Beloff, Mary, Protection to the childhood in Latin America. Fortresses and weaknesses, Monterrey, Publishing Coordination of the Judicial Power again León, 2014]
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=33118&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% Beloff, Mary (Director), Studios on penal age and rights of the Child, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2013] ISBN 978-987-745-025-5
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=32041&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% Beloff, Mary, Can sanction them penal be a system of social inclusion?, Buenos Aires, Ad hoc Publisher, 2011] ISBN 978-987-745-002-5
• [https://biblioteca.csjn.gov.ar/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=31222&query_desc=kw%2Cwrdl%3A% Beloff, Mary, Reform of the penal right in Argentina, Buenos Aires, Publishing Albatross, 2010] ISBN 978-950-24-1125-1

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