Biographie

Roberto Gargarella is a lawyer and sociologist from the University of Buenos Aires. He holds a doctorate in law from the same university and from the University of Chicago (USA), and has done post-doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford University (UK). Roberto is Professor of Constitutional Theory and Political Philosophy at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and of Constitutional Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has been a professor or visiting scholar at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo (Norway), Pompeu Fabra (Spain), New York, Columbia, New Shcool and Harvard (USA). He has received the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1999) and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship (2002). He has published several books on constitutional theory and political philosophy, including “Latin American Constitutionalism” (Oxford U.P., 2013); “The Legal Foundations of Inequality” (Cambridge U.P., 2010), as well as “Justice versus Government”; “Theories of Justice after Rawls”; “The Legal Foundations of Inequality”; and “The Right to Protest: The First Right”.