Education CV
Ph.D. in Law, Pembroke College, University of Cambridge (2018—)
- Gates Cambridge Scholar.
- Co-convenor, International Law and Political Engagement (ILPE) series at the Lauterpacht Centre (2019-2021).
- Co-convenor, Cambridge PhD International Law Discussion Group (2019-2020).
- Managing Editor, Cambridge International Law Journal (2018-19).
Master of Laws (LL.M.), Harvard Law School (2017)
- Dean’s Scholar Prize for extraordinary work to the top student/s in the courses “Global Law and Governance” (Prof. David Kennedy) and “Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment” (Prof. Michael Klarman).
- Honors in 19 out of 21 graded credits.
- LLM paper: “The Interwar Legacy on the Jus ad Bellum: International Law between ‘Duels’ and ‘Pest Control’”, supervised by Prof. Samuel Moyn. Grade: honors. Nominated by Prof. Moyn to the Laylin Prize in International Law.
- Research Assistant at the Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC).
- Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Fellow; Graduate Program Grant.
Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Public International Law, The London School of Economics and Political Science (2016)
- Distinction (first class honours).
- Best performance of the Master of Laws class in International Criminal Law.
- Dissertation: “Alternative sanctions in Colombia and the International Criminal Court: The Nuances of Impunity in the Fight against Impunity”, supervised by Prof. Gerry Simpson. Grade: Distinction.
- Chevening Scholar.
Abogado (J.D. Equivalent), Torcuato Di Tella University (2013)
- GPA: 8,41/10.
- Award for Academic Excellence, Buenos Aires Bar Association (2011).
- Senior Editor, Argentine Journal of Legal Theory (Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica), 2010-2012.
- Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition (2012).
- Exchange program, Pompeu Fabra University (2011).
Academic appointments
- Associate Editor, EJIL: Talk!.
- Research Associate, Global Governance Centre – The Graduate Institute, Geneva (IHEID) (2020-21).
- Lecturer, Torcuato Di Tella University (2015; 2017-2018).
- Courses: “Private International Law” and “International Law Review”.
- Seminar teacher on international human rights law, Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS), Cambridge University (2019).
- Co-founder & Founding Editor-in-chief, Latin American Journal of International Law (Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional; 2013—).
- Organizing Committee, Latin American Society of International Law (LASIL-SLADI) Biennial Conference (2018).
- Research Assistant, Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (PILAC; 2016).
- Research Assistant to Senior Fellow Moreno Ocampo, Harvard Kennedy School (2015-2018).
- Teaching Fellow in Public International Law, Torcuato Di Tella University (2011-2014).
- Leading a two-hour per week seminar in the course convened by Prof. Alejandro Chehtman.
- Nominated for the Alfredo Canavese Teaching Award for Merit as one of the best ten teaching fellows across UTDT’s nine schools and main departments.
- Teaching Assistant to Professors Kathryn Sikkink and Luis Moreno Ocampo, Harvard Kennedy School (2015).
Distinctions and fellowships
- Gates Cambridge Scholarship (full PhD scholarship; 2018-22).
- CUHK Faculty of Law Summer Workshop (full scholarship), The Faculty of Law of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2017).
- Dean’s Scholar Prize in Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School (2017).
- Dean’s Scholar Prize in Global Law and Governance, Harvard Law School (2016).
- Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat Fellow, Harvard University Committee on General Scholarships (2016-17).
- Grant, Harvard Law School Graduate Program (2016-17).
- Chevening Scholar, United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office (2015-16).
- Fulbright Scholar, University of Massachusetts Civic Initiative Argentine Young Leaders Program (2014).
- Teaching Grant, Torcuato Di Tella University (2013-2014).
- Alfredo Canavese Teaching Award for Merit Nominee, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2013).
- Award for Academic Excellence, Buenos Aires Bar Association (2011).
Non-academic work experience
- Consultancy on international law and politics.
- Member of the Campaign Committee, Marcelo Kohen’s Campaign for the Election to the International Court of Justice in 2022.
- Advisor to Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey, Government of the Salta Province (Argentina).
- Law Clerk, Office of the Federal Public Defender General of Argentina.
- Legislative Counsel, Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
- Research Assistant (full-time), O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University.
Fields of research
History and theory of international law, regionalism, Latin America and international law, international human rights law, international organisations, global governance, international criminal law.
Supervisors
Prof. Sarah Nouwen.
Representative Publications
Selected publications
- Article: Small Powers, International Organizations, and the Role of Law: Jorge Castañeda's Views from Mexico, 34(2) European Journal of International Law (forthcoming 2023).
- Article: In Defense of International Law? (with Sarah Nouwen), 36(2) Temple International and Comparative Law Journal.
- Book chapter: The Americas in and before a Century of International Criminal Law (with Justina Uriburu) in Liliana Obregón, Laura Betancur-Restrepo, and Juan M. Amaya-Castro (eds.), and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarin (assistant ed.) The Oxford Handbook of International Law and the Americas (Oxford University Press, forthcoming); University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 11/2022.
- Article: Modest International Law: COVID-19, International Legal Responses, and Depoliticization (with Justina Uriburu), 114 (3) American Journal of International Law (2020).
- Article: América Latina y la Historiografía del Derecho Penal Internacional (Latin America and the Historiography of International Criminal Law), Estudios Sociales (2020).
- Book chapter (in Spanish): Partidos Políticos ("Political Parties") in Roberto Gargarella & Sebastián Guidi, Comentarios de la Constitución de la Nación Argentina: una mirada igualitaria (Comments on the Constitution of Argentina: An Egalitarian Approach) (Buenos Aires: Thomson Reuters – La Ley, 2016).
- Book chapter (in Spanish): Artículo 110 ("Article 110") in Roberto Gargarella & Sebastián Guidi, La Constitución Nacional comentada (Annotated Constitution of Argentina) (with Justina Uriburu).
- Book (in Spanish): Máximos Precedentes – Derecho Constitucional Tributario ("Leading Precedents – Constitutional Tax Law"); Buenos Aires: Thomson Reuters – La Ley, (2013). Baistrocchi, Eduardo (Editor), Quintana, Francisco José et. al. (Assistant Editors).
- Article (in Spanish): Los Límites Morales del Mercado: Comentario a los Libros de Michael Sandel y Debra Satz ("The Moral Limits of the Market: Comments on the Recent Books by Michael Sandel and Debra Satz"), Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica 13 (2012).
- Interviews: I have conducted and edited several interviews for their publication in Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional, including to Kevin Jon Heller, Juan Méndez, Luis Moreno Ocampo, Kathryn Sikkink, Alicia Ely Yamin, and Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni.
- Translations: I have translated several works from English to Spanish for their publication in Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional and Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica, including works by Hilary Charlesworth and Christine Chinkin, Alejandro Chehtman, Máximo Langer, Michael Sandel, and Gerry Simpson.
Main accepted conference papers and presentations
- International Law from Latin America, panel on ‘Non-Western Approaches to International Law’, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting (Washington DC, 29 March-April 1, 2023).
- Human Rights in War, Rapid Response Webinar on the War in Ukraine, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) and Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) of the University of Cambridge (7 March 2022).
- In Defence of International Law? (with Sarah Nouwen), Workshop on ‘International Law and the Politics of History’, Temple University Beasley School of Law (18 February 2022).
- Small Powers, International Organisations, and the Role of Law: Jorge Castañeda’s Views from Mexico, 'Re-Theorizing International Organizations Law' workshop, European Journal of International Law (online, 7-8 December 2021).
- Small Powers, International Organisations, and the Role of Law: Jorge Castañeda’s Views from Mexico, Alternative Approaches to International Organizations in International Law: Potentials, Complexities and Pitfalls, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (Geneva, Switzerland; 14-15 October 2021).
- The Americas in and Before a Century of International Criminal Law, Terceras Jornadas Australes de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Universidad Austral de Chile (6 September 2021).
- ‘Small Powers’, the Promise of International Organisation, and the Role of Law: A View from the Semi-Periphery in the Early Cold War, AHILA (Association of European Latin Americanist Historians) XIX Congress, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (26-27 August 2021).
- Breakthroughs and Continuities in Responses to Authoritarian Violence: the Consolidation and Boundaries of International Human Rights Law in Inter-American Regional Organisation, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, University of Chicago (26-30 May 2021).
- Populism and International Law in Latin America (with Justina Uriburu), Ph.D. Colloquium, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (19 November 2020).
- Modest International Law: COVID-19, International Legal Responses, and Depoliticization (with Justina Uriburu), guest lecture in the course “Selected Issues of Public and Private Law in the time of the COVID 19 emergency”, European University Institute (29 October 2020).
- Critique, Change, and History: Economic and Social Rights in Latin American Perspective, Segundas Jornadas Australes de Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos, Universidad Austral de Chile (15 October 2020).
- Beyond Absences and Contributions: How to Think the History of International Human Rights Law in Latin America?, AHILA (Association of European Latin Americanist Historians) XIX Congress (September 2020, suspended).
- Beyond Absences and Contributions: How to Think the History of International Human Rights Law in Latin America?, III Conference on Dialogues of International Law — Change in International Law, Di Tella University (29 October 2019).
- Latin America and the Prehistory of International Criminal Law, Claiming Rights from the Margins: Latin America and the Regional Construction of International Law, Université Paris Diderot (7 March 2019).
- The ‘Historical Turn’ in International Law and Latin America: Reflections on ‘The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas’, Book Launch: Juan Pablo Scarfi, “The Hidden History of International Law in the Americas” (OUP 2017), National University of San Martín, Argentina (17 November 2017).
- The Interwar Legacy on the Jus ad Bellum: International Law Between ‘Duels’ and ‘Pest Control’, I Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Dialogues of International Law, Di Tella University (26 October 2017).
- Crimes Against Humanity in Venezuela: Beyond the Threshold of Suspicion, Argentine Council for International Relations – CARI (21 May 2015).
Blog posts (selection)
- Third World Analogies and First World Solutions, The Global. Available at: https://theglobal.blog/2021/03/24/third-world-analogies-and-first-world-solutions/.
- Transitional Justice and Enduring Imagination, Opinio Juris. Available at: http://opiniojuris.org/2020/09/15/transitional-justice-symposium-transitional-justice-and-enduring-imagination/.
- Human Rights and Egalitarian Futures after the Pandemic, The Global Initiative for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (GI-ESCR) — Debate on COVID-19 pandemic and ESC rights. Available at: https://www.gi-escr.org/blog/human-rights-and-egalitarian-futures-after-the-pandemic.
- Derecho internacional, participación política y una serie de conversaciones en el Lauterpacht Centre, aquiescencia. Available at: https://aquiescencia.net/2020/05/06/derecho-internacional-participacion-politica-y-una-serie-de-conversaciones-en-el-lauterpacht-centre/.
- La crisis en Venezuela y la Corte Penal Internacional: la iniciativa siempre ha sido de la sociedad civil (The Crisis in Venezuela and the International Criminal Court: Civil Society has Always had the Initiative), commissioned piece for CEPAZ (Centro de Justicia y Paz). Available at: https://cepaz.org/articulos/la-crisis-en-venezuela-y-la-corte-penal-internacional-la-iniciativa-siempre-ha-sido-de-la-sociedad-civil/.
- I am a former contributor to the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Blog (http://www.oneillinstituteblog.org) and have also contributed to other blogs including the Harvard Africa Policy Journal.
Media (selection)
- Hacer justicia con el idioma: el español en la Corte de La Haya (‘Doing Justice to Language: Spanish in the World Court’), Infobae América (28 July 2022). Available at: https://www.infobae.com/america/opinion/2022/07/28/hacer-justicia-con-el-idioma-el-espanol-en-la-corte-de-la-haya/.
- Una alternativa para Venezuela: la Corte Penal Internacional (An Alternative for Venezuela: the International Criminal Court), The New York Times (25/09/2018, with Rodrido Diamanti). Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2018/09/25/opinion-venezuela-corte-penal-internacional.
- Venezuela y los derechos humanos en la era de la gobernanza global (Venezuela and Human Rights in the Era of Global Governance), Infobae América (11/05/2018). Available at: https://www.infobae.com/opinion/2018/05/11/venezuela-y-los-derechos-humanos-en-la-era-de-la-gobernanza-global/.
- Crimea, Gaza y el Estado Islámico: entre los conflictos étnicos y la desigualdad internacional (Crimea, Gaza, and ISIS: between ethnic conflicts and global inequality), Informe Escaleno (05/2015). Available at: http://www.informeescaleno.com.ar/index.php?s=articulos&id=344.
- I have published several other op-eds and short articles, including in Revista Noticias (Argentina), El Cronista (Argentina), and Ratio (LSE).
Other media appearances
- My professional work as an international lawyer has been covered by the media, for example in El País (Spain), El Mundo (Spain), La Nación (Argentina), and El Nacional (Venezuela).
- I have also been interviewed by Net TV and Diario Perfil (Argentina), Radio Nacional (Argentina), El Mercurio (Chile), Internacional con Ñ (podcast).
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