Juan Carlos Cassagne

Practice Areas

His areas of practice include Administrative Law, Public Law, Constitutional Law, Public Procurement, Administrative Procedure, Public Contracts, Public Services Regulation, Comparative Administrative Law.

Professional Memberships

- Honorary Member, National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires (President, 2022–2025).

- Honorary Academician, Royal Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation (Madrid).

- Corresponding Academician, Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (Madrid).

- Member, Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence; Peruvian Academy of Law; Academy of Political and Social Sciences of Venezuela; Mexican Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation; National Academy of Law of Uruguay; National Academy of Legal Sciences of Bolivia.

- Member, International Academy of Comparative Law (Paris).

- Member, Inter-American Academy of International and Comparative Law.

- Full Member, National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires (since April 16, 2024).

- Honorary Member, Institute of Administrative Law, University of the Republic (Uruguay).

Publications

Author of more than 400 scholarly articles and over 30 books, including:

- Principialismo y las Fuentes de la Constitución Nacional (Ediar, 2023).

- Derecho Administrativo y Derecho Público General. Estudios y semblanzas (IBdeF, 2020).

- Curso de Derecho Administrativo, 13th ed. (Thomson Reuters, 2021).

- Os Grandes Principios do Direito Público (Contra Corrente, São Paulo, 2017).

- El Derecho Administrativo (Palestra, Lima, 2017).

- Temas del Derecho Público (IBdeF, 2017).

- El Estado Populista (IBdeF, 2017).

- Numerous edited collective works such as Tratado General de Derecho Procesal Administrativo (La Ley, 2011), Summa de Derecho Administrativo (Abeledo-Perrot, 2013), and Tratado General de los Contratos Públicos (La Ley, 2013).

Career

- Founder and Partner, Cassagne Abogados (1989–present).

- Director, Revista de Derecho Administrativo (1989–present).

- Director, Specialization in Administrative Law, University of Belgrano.

- Former Director, Institute of Administrative Law “Prof. Rafael Bielsa” (UBA).

- Former Professor of Administrative Law, University of Buenos Aires (1974–2004); Professor Emeritus (2024).

- Former Professor, Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina; Professor Emeritus (2008).

- Visiting Professor at Paris X (Nanterre), University of Pau, Autonomous University of Madrid, University of Salamanca, and others.

Personal

Born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, December 2, 1937.

Awards

Education

Experience

- Director of Legal Affairs, Secretariat of Industrial Development, Ministry of Economy.

- Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Industry and Mining.

- Extensive postgraduate and doctoral teaching in universities across Argentina, Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

Languages Spoken

Spanish and French