A native of Colombia, Francisco Reyes Villamizar teaches one semester every year at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University. He received his law degree from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. He has a master of laws degree in comparative law from the University of Miami. He codirects the Fundação Getulio Vargas Instituto Latino Americano e do Caribe de Direito e Economia (FGV-ILACDE), which operates from the Fundação Getulio Vargas's law school in São Paulo, Brazil. A former head of Colombia's Companies Superintendency, Colombian delegate to UNCITRAL, and professor of securities and corporate law at the Universidad de los Andes, he visited at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina and the Universidade Agostinho Neto in Angola. His activities have included lectures on law and economics to Brazil's supreme federal tribunal and Mexico's supreme court, coordinating the reform of Colombia's commercial code and a thorough updating of Colombia's company and bankruptcy law. His life has also been brightened by the recent arrival of a baby son.
Articles
Corporate Governance in Latin America: A Functional Analisis, The University of Miami Inter-American Law Review (2008)
Books
Un nuevo códigto civil para el siglo XXI: un ejercicio académico (with Juan Javier del Granado, Alejandro Guzmán Brito, Alfredo Bullard González, Bruno Meyerhof Salama, Carlos Pablo Márquez, Crispulo Marmolejo Gonzáles, Dante Haro Reyes, Eduardo Andrés Caamaño Rojo, Eduardo Andrés Pigretti, Félix Huanca Ayaviri, Fernando Castillo Cadena, Francisco González de Cossío, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri, Luciano Bennetti Timm, María del Pilar Bonilla, Mateo Miró, Maximiliano Marzetti, Mónika Infante Henríquez, Pablo Alejandro Iannello, Rafael Mery Nieto, and Santiago Montt), Juan Javier del Granado (2009)
Legal scholars in the Anglo-American common law can overlook the connection between particular ordinances and...