Alejandro Chehtman is Dean and Full Professor of law at Torcuato Di Tella Law School, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is also Executive Director of the Latin American Society of International Law.

Alejandro is the author of The Philosophical Foundations of Extraterritorial Punishment, and co-editor of Latin American International Law in the 21st Century (with Sergio Puig and Alexandra Huneeus), both published by Oxford University Press. He has published in leading journals including the European Journal of International Law, Harvard International Law Journal, Law & Philosophy, Legal Theory, and the Journal of International Criminal Justice, among many others. He is finishing a book project on a theory of asymmetrical warfare, forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2027. 

Alejandro studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, where he graduated with honors, and did his MSc in Political Theory and his PhD in Law at the London School of Economics. He clerked at the Federal Appeals Chamber for Criminal Matters and at the Public Defense Office in the City of Buenos Aires. He has also served at the research panel at Matrix Chambers, London. 

He has held many visiting positions, including as fellow at the Law Department at LSE, Marie Sklodowska-Curie at the Faculty of Laws at University College London, fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, and visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School, University of Arizona, the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (London), and at LUISS, in Rome.