A native of Argentina, Hugo Alejandro Acciarri is respected and basically an authority on tort Law. He received a law degree, graduating first in his class, from Universidad Nacional de la Plata, Argentina, and a doctoral law degree, graduating summa cum laude, from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He has served as Academic Dean at the Universidad Nacional de la Plata, and at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, where he teaches civil law and economic analysis of law. 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. In the United States, he is on the law faculty of the Alben W. Barkley School of Law. He has also served as visiting lecturer at Harvard's Real Colegio Complutense, the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, the Universidad Carlos III, the Universidad de la Rioja and the Universidad de Granada, in Spain.
Articles
La Fórmula De Hand y el Cheapest Cost Avoider en el Derecho de Daños Argentino (with Melisa Romero), La Ley Buenos Aires (2007)
A través del análisis de una sentencia de un tribunal argentino se advierte que algunos...
Causa de los Actos Jurídicos, Redundancia y Eficiencia, La Ley (2007)
Una rápida intuición vincula redundancia a mayor dificultad de acceso y comprensión de cualquier conjunto...
¿Deben Emplearse Fórmulas Para Cuantificar Incapacidades?, Revista de Responsabilidad Civil y Seguros (2007)
¿Se debe indemnizar el dolor de las víctimas del 11 de septiembre? (with Andrea Castellano and Andrea Barbero), In Dret (2007)
El Análisis Económico del Derecho de Daños. Elementos Para Una Aproximación, Lexis-Nexis Jurisprudencia Argentina, Número Especial sobre Derecho y Economía (2006)
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, Francisco Reyes Villamizar, 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...
Contributions to Books
Intereses en las Obligaciones de Dinero. Un ensayo sobre clases jurídicas y criterios instrumentales para abordar la cuestión (with Pamela Tolosa and Matias Irigoyen Testa), Ensayos Jurídicos (2007)
Most legal literature on money interest assumes a set of distinctions in order to describe...
Garantías legales: Una aproximación al análisis económico comparativo de la institución en el marco de la integración regional, Colección de Derecho Económico III (2001)
Presentations
On Causal Apportioning and Efficiency in Tort Law (with Andrea Castellano and Fernando Tohme), Real Colegio Complutense, Harvard University (2007)
Mainstream economic analysis of tort law takes for granted that efficiency cannot be reached by...
Delay in Lawsuits and Interest Rate (with Andrea Castellano and Andrea Barbero ), Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) Annual Papers (2007)
Mainstream literature of the economic analysis of litigation, and classical legal scholarship, frequently deal with...
Torts and Social Costs: The Judgment Proof Problem as a Matter of Rational Choice (with Andrea Castellano and Andrea Barbero), Berkeley Program in Law & Economics (2006)
The Judgment Proof Problem has usually been analyzed as an issue concerning a type of...
Daños y Costos Sociales: el Problema de los Judgment Proof como una Alternativa de Elección (with Andrea Castellano and Andrea Barbero), Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) Annual Papers (2006)
Torts and Social Costs: The Judgment Proof Problem as a Matter of Rational Choice (with Andrea Castellano and Andrea Barbero), Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) Annual Papers (2006)
The Judgment Proof Problem has usually been analyzed as an issue concerning a type of...