Marcela Prieto Rudolphy is assistant professor of law at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law and Profesora Adjunta Extraordinaria en la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Escuela de Derecho.
Prieto graduated summa cum laude from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2020, she obtained her JSD degree from New York University. Her dissertation won the 2021 NYU University-Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award in Social Sciences.
From 2012-2014, Prieto worked at the Chilean Ministry of Interior prosecuting crimes against humanity committed during Augusto Pinochet's military dictatorship.
She is co-editor in chief of the Spanish issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law.