Aníbal Pérez-Liñán is Professor of Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame, where he serves as Director of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on political institutions, the rule of law, and human rights in new democracies. He is co-principal investigator of the Notre Dame Reparations Design and Compliance Lab, and editor of the Kellogg Series on Democracy and Development at the University of Notre Dame Press. He served as editor in chief of the Latin American Research Review (2016-21), the scholarly journal of the Latin American Studies Association, LASA. He is the author of Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge University Press and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2007), and Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America (with Scott Mainwaring, Cambridge University Press and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013).
