Roberto Gargarella

About

Roberto Gargarella is a lawyer and sociologist from the Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA 1983-5); Doctor in Law (UBA, 1991). Master in Law (University of Chicago, 1992); Doctor in law (University of Chicago, 1993). Post-doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford (1995). Senior researcher at CONICET. He is currently Professor of Law at the Torcuato di Tella University and the University of Buenos Aires and leads the ERC-funded research project “Institutional Changes for Democratic Dialogue (ICDD) at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He received a John Simon Guggenheim grant (1999) and also a Harry Frank Guggenheim grant (2002). He has published numerous books and articles, including, “Razones para el socialismo,” with F. Ovejero (Paidós, 2000); “Courts and Power in Latin America and Africa,” with S. Gloppen  et al. (Palgrave, 2009); “The Legal Foundations of Inequality” (Cambridge U.P., 2010), “Latin  American Constitutionalism” (Oxford U.P., 2013); “The Latin American Casebook. Courts  Constitutions and Rights,” with J. G. Bertomeu (Routledge 2016); “Constituent Assemblies”, with  J. Elster et al (Cambridge U.P. 2018); and “La derrota del derecho en América Latina. Siete Tesis”  (Siglo XXI, 2020).