Lawfare

Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni is Secretary General of the Latin American Association of Criminology and Criminal Law, and Vice President of the International Association of Criminal Law. In 2009 he received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology. He served as a Justice of the Argentine Supreme Court, and as the General Director of the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders. He is the author of Criminology and Criminal Policy Movements and La Palabra de los Muertos among many other books. Cristina Caamaño is Argentine Ambassador, former Comptroller of the Argentine Federal Intelligence Agency, member of the INECIP Board of Directors, and Professor at Buenos Aires University (UBA). She has been a Professor at the University of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, and at the Education in Federal Prison Program. She is the author of Manual práctico para defenderse de la cárce, Manual para el preso extranjero, and El delito de administración fraudulenta. Valera Vegh Weis is a Research Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg at Konstanz University in Germany and a Professor at UBA School of Law and at the National University of Quilmes. She is also the Vice-president of the Latin American Institute of Criminology and Social Development. Vegh Weis is the author of Criminalization of Activism and Marxism and Criminology: A History of Criminal Selectivity. She was awarded the Critical Criminologist of the Year Award in 2021.

Foreword to the Spanish Edition  
Lula da Silva

Prologue

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Introduction to the English Version
  Valeria Vegh Weis

1 The Destruction of Criminal Law
  Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni

2 The Destruction of Law of Criminal Procedure
  Cristina Caamaño

3 The Destruction of Criminology
  Valeria Vegh Weis

4 Some Exemplary Lawfare Cases
  Cristina Caamaño, Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni and Valeria Vegh Weis

First Afterword
  Eli Gómez Alcorta

Second Afterword
  Atilio Boron

Index