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Accessibility & LanguageSalvador Leyva
Salvador Leyva
Salvador Leyva Morelos Zaragoza is a PhD Candidate at the University of Galway. He holds a Master’s Degree (LLM cum laude) in International Human Rights from the University of Notre Dame, and a Law Degree from the Universidad Marista de Mérida.
Salvador has worked as a human rights lawyer before national and international organizations such as the Inter-American Court and Commission for Human Rights, the Robert F. Kennedy for Human Rights, La 72 Hogar-Refugio para Migrantes, the National Security Archive, and the Federal Public Defense Institute in Mexico.
PhD Research Topic: Strategic enhancement of international law on enforced disappearances
Supervisors: Dr. Edel Hughes and Dr. Roísín Mulgrew
Scholarships and awards:
PhD scholarship awarded by the College of Business, Public Policy and Law at the University of Galway (2024)
LLM scholarship awarded by the Center for Civil and Human Rights, University of Notre Dame (2017)
Romulo Gallegos fellowship awarded by the Organization of the American States (2015)
Publications:
Interés legítimo, defensa pública y tortura: herramientas contra la impunidad. Federal Judicial Training School Review, Number 51, 2021.
Sospechosamente culpable (Chapter). Published in “Poder de Policía y Control Judicial. A propósito del caso Fernández Tumbeiro vs. Argentina de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos”, Special publication, ISBN 978-987-47077-8-9, Public Ministry of Defense, Argentina, 2021. Co-authored with Layla Gabriela Almaraz Olivares.
La investigación de violaciones graves de derechos humanos: pendiente tras la reforma de 2011. “Metodhos” Review, number 21, July-December 2021.
The Mexican General Law on the Forced Disappearance of Persons, Disappearances Committed by Individuals and the National Missing Persons System: How Many Steps Forward? Mexican Law Review, Volume XII, number 1, July-December 2019.
Violaciones de derechos humanos en retenes militares: el caso de Bonfilio Rubio Villegas. “Metodhos” Review, Mexico, number 15, July-December 2018.
Violencia sexual contra el hombre: avance jurisprudencial de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos. Revista Internacional de Derechos Humanos, ISSN 2250-5210/2015 Year V, N°5. Co-authored with Patricia Tarre Mosser.
