

At Harvard, he was awarded several fellowships, including the Edmond J. program at Harvard Law School in 1998 and then switched to the S.J.D. from the University of Buenos Aires Law School (1995), where he was editor of the University of Buenos Aires Law Review, was awarded the Fundación Universitaria del Rio de la Plata Fellowship and graduated in the top 1% of his class. He is also a Member of the American Law Institute and a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

He also serves on several editorial boards, including the executive editorial board of the American Journal of Comparative Law, and was co-director of the Annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop (co-sponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law). He was the founding director of the UCLA Center for Southern Cone Studies and the founding faculty director of the UCLA School of Law Criminal Justice Program (2016-2021). He has also served on various boards and committees of the American Society of Comparative Law, the American Society of International Law, and the UCLA Latin American Institute. Brandeis Visiting Professor of Law), NYU School of Law, the School of Law of Aix-Marseille University in France, the University of Göttingen in Germany, and the PUCRS in Brazil. Professor Langer is also President of the American Society of Comparative Law, the leading organization in the United States promoting the comparative study of law.īesides teaching at UCLA, Professor Langer has taught at the University Torcuato DiTella School of Law in Argentina (where he has won multiple teaching awards), Harvard Law School (where he was Louis D.

His work has been translated into multiple languages, and has received awards from different professional associations.

He regularly lectures in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States on criminal law and procedure issues. Price Chair in Law and is a leading authority on domestic, comparative and international criminal law and procedure.
