Héctor Humberto Hernández

Héctor Humberto Hernández (17 February 1943 – 12 October 2021) was an Argentine jurist and philosopher.

Biography

Héctor Humberto Hernández was born at San Nicolás de los Arroyos in the province of Buenos Aires. Hernández attended the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). Towards the end of his undergraduate career, he studied Philosophy of Law under Guido Soaje Ramos, of whom he was one of his most outstanding and faithful disciples, assistant and associate at the UCA, and whom he himself characterised as "the founder of the Argentine Thomistic school of philosophy of law". He graduated in 1976: his thesis La Justicia en Cossio (Justice in Cossio) was rated outstanding by an examining board composed of Tomás D. Casares, Abelardo Rossi and Juan Alfredo Casaubon.

For years he was an independent researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and a member of the Philosophy Advisory Commission of that institution, where he devoted himself to the study of ethical-legal obligation and subjective law.

He was Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Law courses taught by Soaje Ramos and Casaubon at the University of Buenos Aires, Professor of Philosophy of Law at the Rosario branch of the UCA and Professor in charge of the subject Fundamental Rights in the Specialization in Constitutional Law at the Buenos Aires branch of the same university, Professor Emeritus at the FASTA University (Mar del Plata), where he held the chairs of Philosophy of Law and Legal Professional Ethics and directed the Institute of Philosophy of Law, Natural Law and Foundations of the Legal-Political Order. He was also a lecturer in the specialisation course in Tort Law at the Catholic University of Cuyo (San Luis) and at the National Technological University and the Institute of Higher Studies of San Nicolás de los Arroyos.

In 1965, he directed the magazine Palabra, of the Santa María de los Buenos Aires University Athenaeum, and several decades later, he founded and was the director of the special series Philosophy of Law of the publishing house El Derecho, of which thirty-four issues were published between 2001 and its closure in 2017.

He practised law in various fields, including his work in the State Prosecutor's Office of the Province of Buenos Aires and as Official Public Defender before the Federal Court of San Nicolás de los Arroyos for fourteen years.

See also

• Carlos Alberto Sacheri

Works

• La justicia en la ‘teoría egológica del derecho’ (1980)
• Estudio sobre Taparelli. Su filosofía jurídica: obligación y derecho subjetivo (1984)
• Familia, sociedad y divorcio (1986; preface by Jorge Manuel López)
• Justicia y ‘deuda externa’ argentina (1988)
• Ensayo sobre el liberalismo económico (1994)
• Valor y derecho. Introducción axiológica a la filosofía jurídica (1998)
• Derecho subjetivo. Derechos humanos. Doctrina solidarista (2000)
• Sacheri: Predicar y morir por la Argentina (2007)
• Fines de la pena. Abolicionismo. Impunidad (2010; with Camilo Tale, Ricardo Dip, Gerardo Bonastre & Siro De Martini)
• Orden social y esperanza cristiana (2014)
• Filosofía e Historia de las Ideas Filosóficas (2016)
• Pensar y Salvar la Argentina II. Sobre la participación política de los católicos (2016)
• Sacheri y el mandato argentino. Crítica de la ‘nueva cristiandad’. Para una historia del INFIP (2017)
• Inseguridad y garantismo abolicionista. Bases para la reconstrucción de la justicia penal (2017)
• La discusión académica. Historia del Centro Tomista del Litoral Argentino (2017; prologue by Luis González Guerrico)
• Violación de derechos en cadena. La Doctrina del Fruto del Árbol Venenoso (2018)
• Salvar vidas con el derecho penal (Testimonio de un Defensor) (2018)

External links

• Héctor Hernández - Conferencias