Saldarriaga, Yuri

Bio

Yuri Saldarriaga is a second-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests include judicial politics in Latin America, textual analysis, gender and racial discrimination, and human rights. Before enrolling at Maryland, Yuri worked as a legal advisor on human rights issues at national institutions in Colombia including the Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz (JEP), the transitional justice tribunal created by the 2016 peace agreement between the Colombian Government and FARC rebels. She also interned at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. She has researched legal mobilization, gender, and armed conflicts. At the University of Maryland, she is a member of the Interdisciplinary Laboratory of Computational Social Science (iLCSS). 

 

Degrees

  • MA | Sociology, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)

  • LLM | International Human Rights Law, University of Notre Dame (U.S.)

  • LLB | Universidad Surcolombiana (Colombia)

Areas of Interest

  • Judicial politics, text as data, gender, abortion mobilization, racial discrimination, and human rights.

Research Topics

 

CV(s)

Yuri Saldarriaga
Ph.D Student

| ysalda@umd.edu