Jerónimo Lau Alberdi Adjunct Professor of Law

Phone: 540-458-8500

Email: jlaualberdi@wlu.edu

Office: 437 Lewis Hall

Areas of Expertise/Classes Taught

Comparative Law Seminar

Education

JD (Abogacía), Universidad Austral

LLM, Universidad Austral

LLM, Georgetown University

About

Jeronimo Lau Alberdi is an associate professor at Universidad Austral in Buenos Aires, Argentina and candidate for the SJD degree at the University of Virginia. In the fall of 2026 he teaches the Comparative Law Seminar as an adjunct faculty member at the Washington and Lee University School of Law.

Professor Lau Alberdi's teaching is informed by research interests in constitutional law in Argentina and the United States, comparative constitutionalism, judicialization of politics and judicial behavior. He is particularly interested in how, when and why courts and judges encroach upon the domain of politics and to what extent judicial power expands into a territory formerly occupied by other institutions. Ultimately, he focuses on the issues of case selection and legitimacy in Supreme Courts.

He earned his master's degree from Georgetown University and practiced law in Buenos Aires before coming to the U.S. He worked with Gregorio Badeni, Juan Carlos Cassagne and Alfonso Santiago, three of the most senior and well-known scholars in the field of public law in Argentina. He has filed certiorari petitions and argued and intervened in significant cases before the Supreme Court of Argentina. Most of these cases are being studied at law schools.