Santiago Legarre
Santiago Legarre (born May 24, 1968, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine attorney and law professor at the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). He earned his law degree in 1992, a Master of Studies in legal research from Oxford, and a PhD from the University of Buenos Aires. His Oxford dissertation, “The Historical Background of the Police Power,” was published in 2007 by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law. After clerking for the Argentine Supreme Court, he began teaching at Universidad Austral in 1995 and moved to UCA in 2007.
Legarre has held visiting and teaching roles around the world. In 2011 he was a guest at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt. Since 2012 he has been a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School and Strathmore Law School. In the United States, he also teaches at the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. He has given lectures at many top schools, including Harvard, Cornell, Georgetown, and Oxford, and has spoken in India, China, and Europe on topics such as constitutional law and natural law.
His work focuses on constitutional law and jurisprudence. He has published in journals such as the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Tulane Law Review. Legarre also teaches a workshop on creative writing for law students and, in 2006, co-founded the online magazine Sed Contra, serving as its first editor-in-chief. He is a researcher at CONICET and writes for La Nación.
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