Edgardo Buscaglia received his legal postdoctoral training in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California at Berkeley law school. He also received a master's in law and economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was a Fulbright and ITT scholar. A fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and director of the International Law and Economic Development Centre, he lectures at the University of Virginia and is a visiting professor at the law school of the Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de Mexico. He serves as a legal/economic senior adviser to several international organizations (e.g. UN and World Bank), bilateral institutions in the United States (e.g. USAID) and in Europe (e.g. GTZ), and the US Government. A small sample of his publications is listed below.
Articles
The Paradox of Expected Punishment: Legal and Economic Factors Determining Success and Failure in the Fight against Organized Crime, Review of Law & Economics (2008)
The legal and economic analysis presented here empirically tests the theoretical framework advanced by Kugler,...
Mecanismos de sostenibilidad de las reformas legales y judiciales en países en desarrollo: principios y lecciones aprendidas a través de la experiencia internacional, The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2006)
This article provides a survey of the best international practices based on the judicial reform...
An empirical assessment of the impact of formal versus informal dispute resolution on poverty: A governance-based approach (with Paul Stephan), International Review of Law and Economics (2005)
Based on governance-related criteria, this article provides the empirical jurimetric verification of the how, where,...
Intellectual Property Law: Theory vs. Implementation , Brown Journal of World Affairs (2005)
The paper provides a jurimetric identification of the legal and judicial factors explaining the best...
Undermining the Foundations of Organized Crime and Public Sector Corruption , Essays in Public Policy (2005)
This paper provides a jurimetric account of the main political, social, criminal justice, and economic...
Books
Terrorismo y delincuencia organizada, un enfoque de Derecho y Economía (with Andrés Roemer) (2007)
Contributions to Books
An Economic Analysis of Corrupt Practices within the Judiciary in Latin America, Essays in Law and Economics (1997)
Popular Press
Stark picture of justice - The judiciary in Latin America must be strengthened if the private sector is to prosper, Financial Times (1995)
Working papers
Judicial Corruption in Developing Countries: Its Causes and Economic Consequences , Berkeley Program in Law & Economics, Working Paper Series (1999)
None available
Presentations
´El Chapo´ Guzmán en Forbes, El Universal (2009)
´El Chapo´ Guzmán se codea con millonarios La presión internacional obligaría a una investigación para...
Infiltrados, la muerte de Mouriño, CNN en Español (2008)
Carmen Aristegui platica con Edgardo Buscaglia, investigador del Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) y...