You are invited to attend the Seminar by Jonathan Miller and Discussant, Horacio Spector:

"Borrowing a constitution: the U.S. constitution in Argentina and the heyday of the argentine supreme court (1852-1930)"

Basing his analysis on the Argentine case, Miller discusses the broader issue of the transplantation of laws and constitutions and its consequences. The talk, a summary of a book manuscript he recently completed, discusses the importation by Argentina of the American system of judicial review.

Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011
Time: 2:00-4:00 PM
Place: Weaver, Institute of the Americas Complex, UCSD

Jonathan Miller is a leading specialist in Latin American law. His field is constitutional law and civil liberties. He is a professor at the Southwestern Law School, in Los Angeles. He has been a Fulbright scholar in Argentina, where he taught at the University of Buenos Aires and the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. He also taught at ITAM in México. In the U.S., he practiced law at the firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn in Washington, D.C., where he focused on commercial litigation on behalf of foreign clients. During that time, his pro bono activities included representing victims of human rights violations by the 1976-83 Argentine military government before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In México, he directs a training program designed to help México in its transition from an inquisitorial system with written criminal proceedings to an adversarial, oral, criminal trial process. He has published extensively on argentine constitutional law, Inter-American law, legal transplantation issues, and international human rights law.

Horacio Spector is a specialist in legal theory. His approach belongs to the law and economics perspective. He has been a Guggenheim fellow, and taught at Oxford, Heidelberg, Toronto, and other universities. He has published on moral rights, the economic analysis of the law, the foundations of liberalism, and other subjects.

This event is sponsored by the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) at UCSD.