International Conference on the Future of Legal Education

Martin Bohmer

Mr. Böhmer is the Dean of the Law School at Universidad de San Andrés in Buenos Aires, as well as Professor of Law at the University of Buenos Aires. He serves as Director of Justice Area at CIPPEC. Among his honors, Mr. Böhmer was chosen as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum 2002, Davos, Switzerland, and by the Ashoka Foundation as a Innovators for the Public Fellow. He has also served as a Fulbright fellow, as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Law School, and as an Advisor for the Consejo para la Consolidación de la Democracia (Council for the Consolidation of Democracy) an advisory body for Constitutional and Judicial Reform to Argentine President Raul Alfonsín. Mr. Böhmer is also one of the founders of the Asociación por los Derechos Civiles (Association for Civil Rights). He is the former Dean of the Universidad de Palermo Law School, and the first Director of its Public Interest Law Clinic. Mr. Böhmer received his law degree from the University of Buenos Aires and his Master of Laws and is a JSD candidate at Yale Law School.