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Professor John Hill traveled to Argentina where he delivered lectures on his recent scholarship and met with elected officials.

At the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) law program, Professor Hill discussed his next book, Unfolding Freedom: John Stuart Mill and the Modern Supreme Court, which is under review at Cambridge University Press. Argentinians are interested in United States constitutional developments, and they teach Mill in their law school theory courses, so there was a lot of interest in the May 16 talk, Professor Hill said.

He presented a similar talk on May 18 at the Universidad San Andres law program. The talk was attended by, among others, Carlos Fernandez Rosenkrantz, who is both the first Jewish justice appointed to the Argentine Supreme Court and the nation’s leading scholar on Mill, Professor Hill said.

Professor Hill also met with several Argentine members of Congress, known as the House of Deputies, including Omar Abboud, the first Muslim elected to the legislature in Argentina, and Mercedes de las Casas, who provided a tour of Eva Peron’s office.

In the photo, taken at the library of the Argentinian House of Deputies, is Wandia Katomo, a visiting law student from Kenya at UCA; Florencia Ratti, a UCA graduate student in law; UCA Professor Santiago Legarre; and Omar Ahmed Abboud.

Professor Hill holds a J.D. and a doctorate in philosophy, both of which he received from Georgetown University. In addition to being a professor of law and a Grimes Fellow at IU McKinney, where he teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, torts, jurisprudence and ethical and legal issues at the end of life, and an adjunct professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at IUPUI.