Eduardo Zimmermann received a Law Degree from the University of Buenos Aires and a D.Phil in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He has been a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London; a Visiting Fellow at the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame; Visiting Professor at the Department of History, Paris I, Panthéon-Sorbonne, and Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. He teaches at Universidad de San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he has been Head of the Humanities Department and Rector. His research and publishing focuses on 19th and 20th century Latin American history, particularly on state building processes, legal and political history, and the history of political thought in the region. Among his publications are the following books: Los liberales reformistas. La cuestión social en la Argentina, 1890-1916 (1995); (ed.), Judicial Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Latin America (1999); (co-ed.): Los saberes del estado (2012); Las prácticas del estado (2013); Las fuerzas de guerra en la construcción del estado. América Latina, siglo XIX (2013).