Victor M. Uribe-Uran

Victor M. Uribe-Uran is Professor of History and Law at Florida International University and Chair of the Department of History (2013-2022). He is the author, editor, or co-editor of six books including, most recently the award-winning, Fatal Love: Spousal Murders, Law and Punishment in the Late Colonial Spanish Atlantic (Stanford University Press, 2016), published in the Spanish language under the title Amores Fatales (Banco de la República de Colombia-Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2020).  His research has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, Tinker Foundation, Banco de la República de Colombia's Fundación para la Promoción de la Investigación y la Tecnología, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Dr. Uribe-Uran works on social, legal, and political history, and also on contemporary legal issues such as judicial reform, the judiciary, and the inter-American legal system.

Most recently, he published:

"Historiografía anglosajona de las tres últimas décadas. Reflexiones a propósito de algunos manuales de Historia del Derecho europeo", in E-Legal History Review- Studia Legalia Hispanica Rescripta (2021)

"Fernando Vélez Barrientos (1847-1935)", in Matthew Mirow and Rafael Domingo (eds.), Law and Christianity in Latin America: The Works of Great Jurists, (London: Routledge, 2021)

And, with German Silva, "La Construcción Social de la Criminalidad en América Latina y su Impacto Social y Político", in Gino Rios Patio (ed.), Criminologia Comparada.Enfoque Cientifico de la desviacion y la reaccion Social en los países ibeoroamericanos y España, (Lima: USMP- Facultad de Derecho- Fondo Editorial, 2020)