Buenos Aires Faculty Bios
Marina Bericua
Global Adjunct Professor of Law
Marina Bericua serves as the Director of Government Affairs, Corporate, and Legal Affairs for Microsoft in Argentina and Uruguay. Previously, she held the position of Director of Legal and Compliance at JPMorgan Argentina, overseeing operations in Chile, Uruguay, and Peru. Additionally, she has been the Director of the Master’s in Business Law program at the University of San Andrés, an Advisor to the Board of the National Securities Commission of Argentina and a Banking Senior Associate at Bruchou, Fernandez Madero and Lombardi Law Firm. Bericua also taught in the Law and MBA programs at the University of San Andrés. She is a Board Member of various industry associations, including the Argentine Chamber of Software and the Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications of the Argentine Republic and of the non-profit organization "Chicas en Tecnología". Bericua holds a law degree from the University of Buenos Aires, an LL.M. degree from Columbia University Law School, and is a Fulbright Scholar.
Paola Bergallo
Global Associate Professor of Law
Paola Bergallo is Professor of Law at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Independent Researcher at Argentina's National Research Council (CONICET). Her work brings together comparative public law and empirical legal studies to examine how legal rules travel into policy and social practice in Latin America, in the fields of development, gender, and health. She has served as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Argentine Congress. In fall 2026 she is the Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and she received a 2026 Konex Award (Diploma al Mérito) in the Humanities, a distinction conferred once a decade in each field.
Professor Bergallo directs the Program on Law and Development at Di Tella Law School and has led research projects for the World Bank, UNFPA, PAHO, and Argentine think tanks such as CEDES and Fundar. She holds a JSD and JSM from Stanford Law School, an LLM from Columbia University, and an LLB with honors from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Andrés de la Cruz
Global Adjunct Professor of Law
Andres de la Cruz is a seasoned advisor of governments, companies and financial institutions confronting critical decision-making instances related primarily to financial issues, such as capital raising activities, restructurings and litigation. During his 33 years of work in four of Cleary Gottlieb’s offices (Brussels, New York, Frankfurt and Buenos Aires), he developed a uniquely multidisciplinary cross-border practice, assisting clients worldwide with complex matters that cross multiple borders and practice areas.
He has been a key player in sovereign debt management advising the governments of Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, as well as acting in landmark transactions in other regions, such as Greece’s 2012 debt restructuring. From December 2023 to February 2025, he served as Deputy Treasury Attorney General of the Republic of Argentina, where he supervised significant cross-border disputes and investment arbitrations. He currently serves as the director of the Law School at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella, in Buenos Aires.
Mr. de la Cruz’s work has earned international recognition: The American Lawyer named him “Dealmaker of the Year” in 2017 for his role in Argentina’s $16.5 billion debt offering, and the International Financial Law Review (IFLR) honored him with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2023 for his contributions over 30 years to the development of Latin America’s capital markets.
Guillermo Jorge
Global Adjunct Professor of Law
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, at San Andrés University and at Universidad Torcuato de Tella. 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 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).
Julio César Rivera Jr.
Global Adjunct Professor of Law
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
María Florencia Saulino focuses on environmental law, federalism, and comparative constitutional law. She is a Global Clinical Professor of Law at NYU and a Professor of Law at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina, where she directs the Center for Public Law Studies. She joined the law faculty of Universidad de San Andrés in 2016 and served as Dean from 2017 to 2020. Previously, she was Professor of Law at Universidad de Palermo, where she directed the Center for Environmental Law and Policy. She clerked for Chief Justice Ricardo Lorenzetti at the Argentine Supreme Court from 2008 to 2010. 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. Her recent book, "Derecho Constitucional Ambiental" (La Ley, 2026), develops a comprehensive constitutional framework for Argentine environmental law.
Professor Saulino holds a Doctorate in Law from Universidad de Buenos Aires, where her dissertation received the Premio Facultad for the best doctoral thesis of 2016, and an LL.M. in Environmental Law from NYU Law. She was later a postdoctoral research fellow at NYU's Center on Environmental and Land Use Law.