Alejandro Chehtman

Alejandro Chehtman is Dean and Full Professor of Law at Torcuato Di Tella Law School. He is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of Extraterritorial Punishment, and co-editor of Latin American International Law in the 21st Century (with Sergio Puig and Alexandra Huneeus), both published by Oxford University Press. He has published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Stanford Journal of International Law, Leiden Journal of International Law, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice, Journal of Law & Courts, among many others.

Alejandro studied Law at the University of Buenos Aires, where he graduated with honors, and did his MSc in Political Theory and his PhD in Law at the London School of Economics. Before coming to Di Tella he clerked at the Federal Appeals Chamber for Criminal Matters and at the Public Defense Office in the City of Buenos Aires.

He has held many visiting polistions, including as Fellow at the Law Department at LSE, Marie Sklodowska-Curie at the Faculty of Laws at University College London,Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona, Visiting Professor at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies and Visiting Professor in LUISS, in Rome.