María Guadalupe Martínez Alles

María Guadalupe Martínez Alles is Assistant Professor of Law at IE University. She works in the areas of tort theory, comparative private law, consumer law and punitive damages. Drawing on legal doctrine and insights from modern cognitive and social psychology, her scholarship explores questions relating to the place of punishment in private law, the retributive dimension of tort law, the role of victims in the tort process, the concept of risk in products liability, the notion of the vulnerable consumer as well as the reduction of inequality in consumer transactions. Her work has appeared in specialised peer-review journals such as the Journal of Tort Law, the Journal of European Tort Law, Latin American Legal Studies, Revista Argentina de Responsabilidad Civil y Seguros, and in edited collections of essays on private law theory published by Oxford University Press, among others.

María Guadalupe was previously Professor of Law at Universidad de San Andrés. She has held visiting academic positions at Yale Law School, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and the University of Oxford. Prior to joining academia, she worked as a Law Clerk for a District Court Judge in Córdoba, as a Legal Advisor at the Córdoba Agency for Investment and Development Projects, and as a Legal Advisor at the Washington D.C. office of the Inter-American Development Bank.