Ana María Ontaneda

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Legal analysis, research, and applied criminal law reflection

A space to share ideas, analysis, and reflections on Economic Criminal Law, corruption, criminal policy, gender-based violence, and legal collaboration between Europe and Latin America.

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Current topics to understand complex criminal law problems

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Economic Criminal Law2026

The company as a space of criminal risk: keys to understanding economic crime

An approach to the challenges posed by economic crime when decision-making takes place within complex business structures.

Public and private corruption2026

Private corruption: competition, integrity, and criminal law response

A reflection on the criminal law treatment of private corruption and its connection with competition, markets, and compliance culture.

Sections

Editorial lines of the blog

The blog is organized around thematic areas connected to her research, teaching, and professional background.

Economic Criminal Law

Analysis of economic offences, companies, markets, criminal liability, and complex legal risks.

Public and private corruption

Reflections on institutional corruption, private corruption, integrity, and criminal law responses.

Criminal policy

Critical readings on legislative reforms, institutional responses, and criminal law trends.

Gender-based violence and femicide

Legal and criminal policy analysis on gender-based violence, femicide, and intersectionality.

Europe–LatAm

Comparison of legal systems, criminal policies, and institutions between Europe and Latin America.

Research and knowledge transfer

Ideas on applied legal research, academic collaboration, and legal knowledge transfer.

Latest posts

Sample posts by topic

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Criminal policy

What makes a criminal law reform effective? Criteria for evaluating legal change

A criminal policy perspective on the effectiveness, proportionality, and coherence of legal reforms addressing complex phenomena.

Gender-based violence and femicide

Femicide and intersectionality: challenges for criminal law analysis

A reflection on the need to incorporate complex approaches to understand gender-based violence and institutional responses.

Europe–LatAm

Europe and Latin America facing corruption: differences, tensions, and lessons

A comparative approach to legal frameworks and criminal policy debates on corruption in both contexts.

Research and knowledge transfer

From academic article to institutional impact: transferring legal knowledge

Ideas to transform rigorous legal research into reports, training, technical criteria, and institutional collaboration.

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