We are pleased to introduce our newest contributor, Martín Hevia, to Bill of Health.
Martín (SJD, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; Abogado, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina) is the Executive Dean and Director of the Law Programme (J.D. Equivalent) at the School of Law of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina), where he is an Associate Professor of Law. His research and teaching interests include comparative constitutional and private law; health law and reproductive rights; and legal theory and political philosophy.
Professor Hevia has acted as a legal consultant to the Argentine National Congress on the reform, actualization, and unification of the Argentine Civil and Commercial Codes, and as an Expert for the World Health Organization Public Health Law Consultation Group. He was Co Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Law & Equality (2004-2006) and Editor-In-Chief of Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica (1999-2000). He has also served as a Global Fellow at the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme, University of Toronto (2009) and Fellow in Comparative Law and Political Economy at Osgoode Hall, York University (2008).
At the University of Toronto, he was awarded the Alan Marks Medal to the Best Graduate Thesis of 2006-2007, the 2007 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award for extraordinary extra-curricular contributions to university life and was President of the Graduate Law Students’ Association.
Representative Publications:
Books:
- “Reasonableness and Responsibility: A Theory of Contract Law” (Springer Law & Philosophy Series, 2012)
- Teoría y Crítica del Derecho Civil y Comercial (Editorial Fontamara, 2012)
- “Derecho Privado y Filosofía Política: Fundamentos de la Responsabilidad Civil” (México, DF: Fontamara, 2011)
Articles:
- “From Recognition to Regulation: Access to In Vitro Fertilization and the American Convention on Human Rights,” Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. 25 (with Carlos Herrera Vacaflor, 2013).
- “Effective Access to Justice Against State and Non State Actors in the Framework Convention on Global Health: A Proposal,” Harvard Journal of Health and Human Rights (2013).
- “The Legal Status of Emergency Contraception in Latin America,” 116 International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 87 (2012).
- “Prenatal Management of Anencephaly,” 192 International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics 304 (with Rebecca Cook, Bernard Dickens, and Joanna Erdman, 2008).
SSRN Page: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=409717
