Julieta Marotta is an assistant professor at UNU-MERIT. Julieta holds a PhD from Maastricht University/United Nations University on access to justice and legal empowerment of victims of domestic violence. Her research interest is in inclusive forms of access to justice and legal empowerment through empirical legal research. Currently, she is undertaking research on access to justice for children.
Julieta was a visiting researcher at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford, UK (2024); the Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain (2018); and the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law School, US (2017). Moreover, she undertook fieldwork on access to justice in Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, and the US.
Julieta performed as the Academic Programme Director of the MPP. She also coordinated, lectured, and tutored, other courses for the MPP, for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, for the Faculty of Law, and for the Maastricht School of Management on topics related to public policy and qualitative methods. Julieta also lectured for the doctoral programme at the Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Julieta holds an LLB degree from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and an LLM degree from Louisiana State University (US). She is admitted to practice law in Argentina and has worked for law firms in Argentina and the US. Further, since the summer of 2016 she is a certified mediator by Tulane University (US) and Humboldt University (Germany).
