Santiago Legarre

Santiago Legarre graduated from Universidad Católica Argentina in 1992 with honors. He then served as a clerk for Justice Antonio Boggiano at the Argentine Supreme Court for two years. He received his Master of Studies in Legal Research degree from Oxford University in 2004 and a Ph.D. from Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2003. His dissertation, “The Historical Background of Police Power,” was published by the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law in 2007.

Prof. Legarre has taught for over 30 years, starting at Universidad Austral in 1995. He later moved to UCA in 2007 and has since remained there as a tenured professor of law. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School and Strathmore Law School (Kenya). Prof. Legarre has also taught courses at LSU Law School.

He is the author of three books and co-author of another four, in addition to over 70 published articles. His work has been published by several law journals, including Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, Loyola Law Review, Louisiana Law Review, Tulane Law Review, American Journal of Jurisprudence, Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law, Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, Journal of Civil Law Studies, the aforementioned University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, among others.

He has given lectures at many law schools, both in the United States (Harvard Law School, Cornell Law School, Georgetown Law Center, NYU Law School, Columbia Law School, to name a few) and abroad (SciencesPo, University of Zurich, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, Kalinga Institute of Technology, and Jindal Global Law School). 

Prof. Legarre is a researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council, the main Argentine scientific government agency. He was also a guest at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory (Frankfurt) in 2011.