NYU Law Abroad

Buenos Aires Faculty Bios

Paola Bergallo

Global Associate Professor of Law

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Paola Bergallo is a professor at the Law School and, by courtesy, at the School of Government of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. She is a member of the country’s national research institution (CONICET), a guest principal researcher at FUNDAR, and a global fellow at the Center for Law and Social Transformation at Bergen University. 

Professor Bergallo’s work has combined scholarly and advocacy approaches to gender, health, and food rights, subjects she has addressed from comparative and empirical perspectives. She has directed several action-research projects in Argentina and Latin America, and more recently, she has founded law and development programs at FUNDAR and Di Tella. She has advised pro bono the National Program on Reproductive Health, the Office of Gender of the Supreme Court, and several local NGOs. She has been an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Colombia Constitutional Court, and the Argentine Congress. She has conducted research on health and food rights for UNFPA, PAHO, the World Bank, and FAO. She is a member of the Organizing Committee of the Seminario de Teoría Constitucional (SELA), a Latin American network of Law Professors hosted by Yale Law School, and a founding member of Red Alas, where she now directs the regional program Investigar en Red on gender, law and public policy. 

Professor Bergallo holds a JSM and JSD from Stanford Law School, an LLM from Columbia University, and an LLB with honors from Universidad de Buenos Aires. She has received fellowships from the Norwegian Research Council, Fulbright, the Hewlett Foundation, and Stanford Law School.
 

Andrés de la Cruz

Global Adjunct Professor of Law

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Mr. de la Cruz is a partner in the New York and Buenos Aires offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton. Mr. de la Cruz’s practice focuses on advising private and public sector clients in connection with cross-border corporate and financial matters, including debt restructurings, securities offerings, structured financing, as well as mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. In recent years, Mr. de la Cruz has worked on numerous transactions, including security offerings, restructurings and refinancings in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Mr. de la Cruz’s corporate practice in Latin America is distinguished among the best in the region by Chambers Global, Chambers USA, Chambers Latin America and The Legal 500 Latin America. He is also recognized as a leading capital markets and project finance lawyer by The Legal 500 U.S. Mr. de la Cruz received an Abogado degree from the University of Buenos Aires in 1985, an LLM degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1987, and a Diploma from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in 1988.

 

Guillermo Jorge

Global Adjunct Professor of Law

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Guillermo Jorge is a partner at Bruchou & Funes de Rioja, a leading law firm in Argentina. He heads the Compliance, Internal Investigations and Business Crime practice. A recognized expert in anti-corruption and anti-money laundering compliance in Latin America, Guillermo has been involved in a significant number of high-profile investigations and has led several legal reform processes in the region. He has extensively published on topics of his specialty and is a frequent speaker at international conferences. Guillermo is a lecturer at the International Anticorruption Academy and at San Andrés University. He was a fellow at Stanford University (2002 and 2009), at the National Endowment for Democracy (2006).

 

Nahuel Maisley

Global Associate Professor of Law

Nahuel Maisley

Nahuel Maisley holds a Law Degree and a Doctorate in Law from the University of Buenos Aires, and an LLM in International Legal Studies from NYU Law. He is an Associate Researcher at CONICET, the Argentinean National Council for Scientific Research, and an Associate Professor of International Law at the University of Buenos Aires. He is also a fellow in the “InfraReg” project at the Institute for International Law and Justice, at NYU.

Nahuel has received a number of scholarships and awards, including the Hauser Global Scholarship, the Jerome Lipper Award in International Legal Studies, the Thomas Franck Scholarship in International Law, the Lloyd N. Cutler Fellowship in International Law, and UBACyT and DeCyT scholarships. His work, which usually combines legal and political theory with international law, has been published in various books and journals, including the NYU Law Review, the Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences, and the European Journal of International Law. In the past, Nahuel has been a visiting scholar at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) and at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law (Heidelberg).

 

Mariana Pargendler

Global Professor of Law

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Mariana Pargendler is Full Professor of Law at Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV) Law School in São Paulo, where she is also a director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Governance. Her scholarship examines problems in corporate law, corporate governance, and contract law from an economic and comparative perspective. She holds an LL.B. and a PhD (Law) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), as well LL.M. and J.S.D. degrees from Yale Law School. While at Yale, she was a research fellow at the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management, as well as an Olin fellow at the Center for Studies in Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School. Prior to joining academia, she was a corporate associate at the New York office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. 

 

Julio César Rivera Jr.

Global Adjunct Professor of Law

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Professor Julio César Rivera, Jr. is a partner at Marval O’Farrell Mairal in Buenos Aires. His expertise focuses on international arbitration, international investment law and complex and cross-border commercial litigation. He regularly acts as counsel in international commercial arbitrations under ICC and UNCITRAL Rules, involving the oil & gas industry, M&A transactions, construction disputes and electricity-related matter. He is also a professor at the Law School of Universidad de San Andrés where he teaches courses on International Investment Law and Conflict of Laws. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Universidad Católica Argentina in 1997 and obtained an LL.M from Harvard Law School in 2000. He also received his PhD in law from the Universidad de Buenos Aires in 2008.

 

María Florencia Saulino

Global Clinical Professor of Law

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María Florencia Saulino focuses on environmental law, federalism, and comparative constitutional law. She is a Global Clinical Professor of Law at New York University and a Professor of Law at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina. Prior to joining the NYU Law Abroad faculty, she clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti in the Argentine Supreme Court. She joined the law faculty of Universidad de San Andrés in 2016 and served as Dean from 2017 to 2020. She directs the Public Law Center of Universidad de San Andrés. She has worked as a research consultant for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, the World Bank, and the United Nations Development Program.

Professor Saulino holds a Doctorate in Law from Universidad de Buenos Aires and an LL.M. from NYU Law, where she was a post-doctoral research fellow at NYU’s Center on Environmental and Land Use Law.