Salvador Leyva Morelos-Zaragoza is a PhD researcher at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, University of Galway. His research focuses on enforced disappearances and the implementation of international human rights decisions. He has worked with the Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights and has extensive experience in human rights litigation and research in Latin America. He holds an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law from the University of Notre Dame and has published on enforced disappearances and other human rights issues.