Fernando Tesón is an Argentine-American legal scholar who is known for his contributions to the philosophy of law (especially, the law of humanitarian intervention) and to

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theory. He is the Tobias Simon Eminent Scholar at Florida State University College of Law. His publications include ''Humanitarian Intervention: An Inquiry into Law and Morality'' (3rd ed fully revised and updated, Transnational Publishers 2005); ''Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation'' (Cambridge University Press 2006) ith Guido Pincione ''A Philosophy of International Law'' ( Westview Press 1998); and many articles in law, philosophy, and international relations journals and collections of essays. Before entering academia, Professor Tesón was a career diplomat for the

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in Buenos Aires for four years. He resigned from the Argentine foreign service in 1981 to protest against the

human rights abuses of the Argentine government The history of human rights in Argentina is affected by the Dirty War and its aftermath. The Dirty War, a civic-military dictatorship comprising state-sponsored violence against Argentine citizenry from roughly 1976 to 1983, carried out primaril ...

and serves as permanent visiting professor, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tesón is also the founder, director, arranger, and bandoneón player, of ''Tango Sur'', an

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band. Since 2012 he has been a member of the Honorary Council of the Argentine Liberal Libertarian Party.

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