Julio Ríos-Figueroa is Professor at the Department of Law at ITAM in Mexico City. Ríos-Figueroa received his Ph.D. in Politics from New York University (NYU). His research focuses on comparative judicial politics, the rule of law, and empirical legal studies with an empirical focus on the Latin American region. Ríos-Figueroa is the author of Constitutional Courts as Mediators. Armed Conflict, Civil-Military Relations, and the Rule of Law in Latin America as well as co-editor with Gretchen Helmke of the volume Courts in Latin America both published by Cambridge University Press. Professor Ríos-Figueroa has also written articles, book chapters, and applied-research reports on different aspects of the rule of law that can be find at https://rios-figueroa.com/.