Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll is a magistrate in the Chamber for the Recognition of Truth, Responsibility and Determination of Facts and Conduct of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP) in Bogotá, where she works on truth-building, determining responsibilities and promoting restorative justice in the context of the Colombian armed conflict. She is the rapporteur for Case 01, on the taking of hostages by the FARC-EP, and co-rapporteur for Cases 10 and 11, relating to war crimes and gender-based violence. A lawyer from the University of Los Andes, she holds a master's degree in Gender and Religion Studies from New York University and a doctorate in Law and Social Theory from Harvard. Prior to her appointment, she was a professor and researcher at the University of Los Andes, as well as a visiting scholar at Yale, Melbourne, Sciences Po, Columbia, and the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Her academic work addresses the rights of women, ethnic minorities and victims of armed conflict, and she is the author of works such as El Derecho como Conjuro (Law as a Spell, 2009), La Paz en Cuestión (Peace in Question, 2011) and El Estado siempre llega tarde (The State is Always Late, 2019).
