Gerardo Vildostegui

Education: Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley; J.D., Yale Law School; B.A. in Philosophy, Yale University.

Recent projects include: My Brother's Keeper

Personal interests include: travel, yoga, Scrabble, crosswords, duplicate bridge, birdwatching

Gerardo is a teacher and scholar of law and philosophy.  He is a graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of The Yale Law Journal, and he has taught constitutional law for the past 12 years, first at Rutgers University and then at New York Law School.  He has also taught various courses in philosophy at both Rutgers and the University of California, Berkeley, where he is working toward a Ph.D. in the subject.  Gerardo's research interests include international human rights, intergenerational ethics, and the ethics and economics of dementia care.  Gerardo has a longstanding interest in Puerto Rico:  In between college and law school, he lived in San Juan and worked as an advisor to the parties in the Morales Feliciano prison-reform litigation; ever since then he has focused part of his research and teaching on Puerto Rico's constitutional history and on the philosophical aspects of the Puerto Rican status question.

Gerardo was born and raised in Miami Beach, Florida.  He is the son of Cuban immigrants and a native Spanish speaker.