Santiago Legarre

Brief Biography

Universidad Católica Argentina (Argentina)
February 2 to February 11, 2010
Comparative Constitutional Law

LL.B. (Universidad Católica Argentina ), M.St. ( Oxford ), Ph.D. (Universidad de Buenos Aires). Professor, Department of Law, Universidad Católica Argentina. From 1995-2007, Professor, Department of Law, Universidad Austral.

Professor Legarre taught Comparative Constitutional Law at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 2003 and 2005, and in 2007 he taught for the LSU Buenos Aires Summer Program.  In 2009 he was a Visiting Professor at Valparaiso University School of Law (Indiana). His research interests lie in constitutional law and jurisprudence, and his recent publications include The Historical Background of the Police Power, 9 Univ. of Penn. J. of Const. Law 745 (2007) and Nature and Dimensions of Stare Decisis, with Julio C. Rivera, in Olivier Moréteau et al., eds., Essays in Honor of Saúl Litvinoff (2008).