Janice conducted more than two years of fieldwork in Mexico and Colombia, and previously worked as a human rights accompanier in Colombia. Gallagher’s first book, entitled "Bootstrap Justice: The Search for Mexico's Disappeared" (Oxford University Press, 2023) argues that the sustained mobilization of the families of the disappeared have been the key catalysts for legislative and judicial advances, and under certain political configurations have poked holes in the near blanket impunity for serious crimes in Mexico. This study is part of a larger research agenda of state-civil society relations, specifically how informal institutions, relationships and mobilization shape judicial and human rights outcomes. Her research has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, and in many popular venues such as the Huffington Post and openglobaldemocracy.net.Specialties: Legal mobilization, transnational advocacy networks, transitional justice, contentious politics, Latin American courts