Alberto Pérez Pérez (

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, 15 June 1937 - 2 September 2017) was a Uruguayan legal scholar and human rights advocate. In the early 1970s he was Dean of the School of Law,

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. The civic-military dictatorship destituted him and he had to go in exile. Afterwards he was a member of the

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1937 births 2017 deaths Uruguayan lawyers Uruguayan human rights activists Uruguayan scholars of constitutional law University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni Southern Methodist University alumni Academic staff of the University of the Republic (Uruguay) Inter-American Court of Human Rights judges {{Uruguay-law-bio-stub