Alejandro Chehtman holds a BA from the University of Buenos Aires and an MSc in Political Theory from the LSE. In 2009, he was awarded his PhD in Law from the LSE for his thesis 'The Morality of Extraterritorial Punishment'. Alejandro has taught Public International Law at the LSE as a Teaching Fellow (2005-9), for which he received a teaching award. He has also taught Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law at the University of Buenos Aires, and International
Criminal Law at the University Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina. He joined the Faculty of Law at UCL in September 2008 as Research Associate for the Centre for International Courts and Tribunals. At UCL he works on the DOMAC Project, on the impact of international criminal tribunals on domestic prosecutions
in mass atrocity cases. He has published articles in Law and Philosophy and the New Criminal Law Review.