Raul Sanchez Urribarri is a Lecturer in Crime, Justice, and Legal Studies at La Trobe University. His work focuses on understanding the factors that define and condition the performance of judicial institutions, and the behavior of judges and other legal actors across different political systems. His research is linked to different scholarly traditions, including Comparative Law, Law and Society, Comparative Politics, and Judicial Politics. His teaching agenda includes a variety of subjects, such as Research Methods, Law and Development, Comparative Politics, and Latin American Politics