A native of Argentina, Horacio Spector takes a law and economics approach to legal theory. He earned his law degree and doctor of laws degree from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is Dean of the law school at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where he teaches law and economics and legal theory. A 1992 research fellow with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation at Harvard University, and twice fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Heidelberg, he has visited at Oxford University's Balliol College, the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University, the University of Toronto, and the Universidad de Alicante in Spain.
Articles
Symposium, Promises, Commitments, and the Foundations of Contract law: Introduction, Chicago- Kent Law Review (2006)
Books
Rights, Equality, and Liberty: Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law and Philosophy Lectures 1995-1997 (with Guido Pincione) (2000)
What are moral rights? What role do they play in liberalism? Which rights do we...
Contributions to Books
Justicia y Bienestar desde una perspectiva de derecho comparado, Análisis Económico del Derecho (2006)
Comment on professor Gopal Sreenivasan’s A Hybrid Theory of Claim-Rights, Problemas contemporáneos de la filosofía del derecho (2005)
Enunciados jurídicos y razones para actuar, Decisiones Normativas en los campos de la ética, el Estado y el derecho , Essays in honor of Julia Barragán (1999)
Op-Ed pieces