Santiago Carbajal is an Argentine J.S.D. candidate at Yale Law School, where he obtained his LL.M. in 2024. Before coming to YLS, he studied law at the University of Buenos Aires, where he taught Analytical Jurisprudence, Professional Responsibility, and Administrative Law. Santiago also served as a career law clerk in the Judiciary of the City of Buenos Aires and conducted research for CIPPEC, a think tank focused on designing and implementing public policies.
Santiago's research lies at the intersection of law and philosophy, with a focus on analytical jurisprudence, public and administrative law, and related questions in moral philosophy and epistemology. His dissertation examines the notion of deference and the nature and limits of judicial review of executive discretion, asking what kind of normative assessment courts make when they review administrative decisions for reasonableness or arbitrariness, and seeking to provide an account of what makes a decision unreasonable or arbitrary in the relevant legal sense. He is particularly interested in what it means to hold decision-makers accountable for how they exercise their discretion. In related areas of public law, Santiago is interested in the nature and extent of presidential pardons and in cognate questions in moral philosophy, such as the nature of forgiveness and mercy.
Doctoral Committee:
Daniel Markovits (co-chair), Michael Della Rocca (co-chair), Gideon Yaffe (reader), Scott J. Shapiro (reader).
Education:
LL.M., Yale Law School
LL.B. (Hons), University of Buenos Aires.
Contact:
santiago.carbajal@yale.edu