The Latin American Casebook

Juan González-Bertomeu is Assistant Professor of Law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). He specializes in constitutional law, constitutional adjudication, empirical studies, and legal theory. He received his first law degree from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (1999), and obtained an LL.M. degree (2003) and a J.S.D. degree (2012) at NYU. Between 2004 and 2007, he worked for Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (ADC), a leading NGO based in Buenos Aires devoted to civil rights protection, strategic litigation, and justice reform. Mr. Gonzalez Bertomeu has taught constitutional law and legal philosophy at Universidad de Palermo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Universidad de San Andrés and Universidad de Buenos Aires.Roberto Gargarella is currently Professor of Constitutional Law, Universidad de Buenos Aires, since 1998, and Professor of Constitutional Law and Legal Philosophy, Universidad Di Tella, since 1995. He has also been Visiting Researcher at Harvard University (2010), Visiting Professor at Columbia University (2003, 2007-8), Central European University (2007), University of Bergen (2005), and Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, (1993-9). He has won numerous awards, including: Tinker Scholarship (2007), First Prize, National Contest of Essays, organized by Argentina's Supreme Court (2007), Fulbright Scholarship (2006), Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellow (2002-2003) and John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1999-2000).