Prof. Langer teaches International Criminal Law, Criminal Adjudication, and Latin American Legal Institutions at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has an LL.B. degree from the University of Buenos Aires and an LL.M. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard University where he was awarded several fellowships, including the Edmond J. Safra Graduate Fellowship in Ethics from the Harvard University Center for Ethics and the Professions, and a fellowship from the Center for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations at The Hague Academy of International Law.
While at the University of Buenos Aires, Prof. Langer served as a legal clerk in an Argentinean Federal District Court, and after graduation worked in criminal defence. Before going to Harvard, he also served as Director of the Non-Conventional Offences Program at the Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences and worked as legal advisor to the Commission of Justice and Criminal Law.
His teaching career began at the University of Buenos Aires where he served as a Graduate Teaching Fellow, and continued at Harvard, where he was a Teaching Fellow under Professor Carol Steiker, and a Byse-Rockefeller Center Fellow.
Prof. Langer has published articles and book chapters in English, Spanish and Chinese, on criminal law and procedure, and has given presentations and seminars on various aspects of criminal law in the United States, Asia, Europe and Latin America. He has published an article which analizes whether managerial judging reforms that were introduced to expedite procedure at the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) achieved their goal. His article is available at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1422685