Lara Benítez is an Argentine J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where she also obtained her LL.M. in 2025. Earlier, she was a Fox International Fellow at Yale’s MacMillan Center (2023–24). Before coming to Yale, she earned her Law degree (LL.B.) and a Master’s in Criminal Law from Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. She has served as Legal Advisor at the Office of Criminal Policy in the Prosecutor General’s Office of the City of Buenos Aires, taught undergraduate and graduate courses at Universidad de San Andrés and Universidad Nacional de La Plata, and worked at the Innocence Project Argentina. She has also participated in research groups focused on public policy reform and published internationally on miscarriages of justice.
Her academic interests lie in evidence law, epistemology, and evidence-based public policy reform. Her dissertation examines the problems raised by the use of naked statistical evidence in legal adjudication, with particular attention to the epistemic and cognitive considerations that bear on its perceived inability to satisfy legal standards of proof.
Doctoral Committee
Professor Gideon Yaffe (Chair), Professor Keith DeRose (Reader), Professor Joshua Knobe (Reader), Professor Dan Kahan (Reader), and Professor Ketan Ramakrishnan (Reader)
Education
J.S.D., Yale Law School (in progress)
LL.M., Yale Law School, 2025
M.A. in Criminal Law, Universidad de San Andrés, 2025 (hons)
LL.B., Universidad de San Andrés, 2020 (hons)
Contact Information
lara.benitez@yale.edu