Fernando R. Tesón

Fernando R. Tesón is Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law, and Permanent Visiting Professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella Law School in Buenos Aires.

 He is the author of Discourse Failure: A Philosophical Essay on Deliberation, Democracy, and Consent (forthcoming), coauthored with Guido Pincione; A Philosophy of International Law (1998); and Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality (3rd ed., 2005); as well as of numerous articles, including "The Rawlsian Theory of International Law," in Ethics & International Affairs.

A native of Argentina, he holds a J.D. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Licence en droit international from the University of Brussels, and an S.J.D. from Northwestern University.

Resources by this Author:

• Ending Tyranny in Iraq: A Debate
• Of Tyrants and Empires: Reply to Terry Nardin [Full Text]
• Ending Tyranny in Iraq [Full Text]
• The Rawlsian Theory of International Law [Abstract]

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