A native of Bolivia, Juan Javier del Granado's own research interests are in the area of economic analysis of Roman law, and particularly, the architecture de l'ordre juridique. He received a bachelor's degree in politics, economics, rhetoric and law from the University of Chicago and a three-year juris doctor degree from Northwestern University. He also acquired a habilitation in civil law and law degree from the Universidad Mayor de San Simon, which bestowed upon him its gold medal. He is a research fellow at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México's prestigious Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas. He formerly directed the Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Center at George Mason law school. He has served as the John M. Olin Fellow in law and economics and the Lloyd M. Robbins Fellow in legal history at Boalt Hall, associate director of the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American Studies and on the faculty at ITT/Chicago-Kent. His recent projects include infusing law and economics into the classroom at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City and the Escuela Libre de Derecho in Mexico City.
Economic analysis of Roman law et d'ordre juridique
The Genius of Roman Law, from a Law and Economics Perspective, San Diego International Law Journal (2011)
Law and economics aids us in understanding why Roman law is still worthy of admiration...
Oeconomia iuris: Un libro de Derecho del siglo XVI, refundido para el siglo XXI (2010)
Es un libro-joya: una hermosa y fructífera combinación de talentos y lecturas; de ahondamiento y...
Desde el genio del Derecho romano hasta la innovación del análisis económico del Derecho: hacia la proyección de un nuevo Derecho adjetivo, Escuela Libre de Derecho (2010)
La ley debe evolucionar para adaptarse a las realidades propias del siglo XXI. Lo que...
The genius of Roman law, from a law and economics perspective, European Association of Law and Economics (2009)
Law and economics aids us in understanding why Roman law is still worthy of admiration...
Análisis económico del corpus iuris ciuilis, Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2009)
Law and game theory
A critical study of the common law, from a law and economics perspective, Florida International University College of Law (2010)
United States legal realism survived in the later part of the 20th century in the...
Oeconomia iuris: Un libro de Derecho del siglo XVI, refundido para el siglo XXI (2010)
Es un libro-joya: una hermosa y fructífera combinación de talentos y lecturas; de ahondamiento y...
El siglo XIX, ¿un siglo de barbarie?, Universidad Francisco Marroquín New Media (2009)
Juan Javier del Granado manifiesta que el siglo XIX dejó serias consecuencias que han repercutido...
El análisis económico del razonamiento jurídico (with Maximiliano Marzetti), Ensayos selectos sobre Teoría de Juegos y Derecho Contemporáneo (2009)
Las legislaturas poseen legitimidad formal para sancionar leyes por haber sido sus miembros elegidos por...
The Cost of Cooter, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2008)
Legal scholarship is permeated by two powerful intellectual currents. One is ancient, the long tradition...
Legal bibliographies
Annotated bibliography of the legal literature of Chile (with Juan Carlos Marín), The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2008)
This article assembles a suggested reading list of law books from Chile for those seeking...
Annotated bibliography of the legal literature of Brazil, The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2007)
This article assembles a suggested reading list of law books from Brazil for those seeking...
Annotated bibliography of the legal literature of the Dominican Republic (with Mónika Infante Henríquez), The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2007)
This article assembles a suggested reading list of law books from the Dominican Republic for...
Annotated bibliography of the legal literature of Bolivia, The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2006)
This article assembles a suggested reading list of law books from Bolivia for those seeking...
Annotated bibliography of the legal literature of Mexico, The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2006)
This article assembles a suggested reading list of law books from Mexico for those seeking...
Legal dictionaries
Diccionario de enlaces de la lengua (1994)
A philologist/grammarian/lexicographer and legal scholar, the author has taken painstaking care to compile a dictionary...
Legal philology
Roman law and ratio decidendi in Spanish Colonial law, 16th through the 19th centuries (with Alejandro Mayagoitia), Ratio Decidendi: guiding principles of judicial decisions (2010)
To a lawyer, that part of the decision which is binding and is to be...
El derecho indiano y la escolástica barroca: Una lectura fresca y actual de los emblemas de Juan de Solorzano y Pereira, Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano (2010)
This discussion of Latin America and the Caribbean's legal tradition, steeped in baroque scholasticism, is...
Oeconomia iuris: Un libro de Derecho del siglo XVI, refundido para el siglo XXI (2010)
Es un libro-joya: una hermosa y fructífera combinación de talentos y lecturas; de ahondamiento y...
Hallan obra de Bentham en Guatemala, Siglo XXI (2009)
Con el reciente hallazgo, se inicia una investigación sobre la posible influencia que el Constitutional...
Law is plumbing; law is not philosophy, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2007)
The Romans were experts at the practical. Law and plumbing are two of Rome's greatest...
Literary works
Flor de Granado y Granado (2011)
This is a collection of works by one of Latin America's most distinguished academic and...
Oeconomia iuris: Un libro de Derecho del siglo XVI, refundido para el siglo XXI (2010)
Es un libro-joya: una hermosa y fructífera combinación de talentos y lecturas; de ahondamiento y...
La deuda oculta de Gabriel García Márquez con fray Benito Jerónimo Feijoó, Ilustre Colegio de Abogados de La Paz (1997)
Por casi 30 años, de 1967 a 1997, ha causado asombro entre sus lectores la...
The anxieties of Anglo American gothic, XCIII Sonetos (1991)
This book is a collection of sonnets assembled by the Spanish-American poet laureate. In the...
Legal education
Diplomado/Maestría en Derecho Estadounidense, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados de México (2011)
A diferencia de los programas de enseñanza del derecho en los Estados Unidos, esta oferta...
Law and Economics Program in El Salvador, May 2010, Atlas Economic Research Foundation Network News (2009)
Juan Javier del Granado says that hosting such a program in small countries like El...
El genocidio de América, Blog de Bartomolé Clavero (2008)
Con los pueblos indígenas de América están en deuda monumental las gentes indígenas de Europa,...
Latin America’s equivocal legal legacy: the international law system and rule-of-law accountability, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2008)
Although largely ignored by legal historians, Latin American legal scholars, from the 16th down to...
A great civilian misunderstanding: codes are not statutes, codes are restatements, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2008)
Civilian legal scholars may benefit from codification projects undertaken in different legal traditions. The very...
Future of law in the 21st century
Controversia constitucional No. 106/2009 - Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (2011)
The brief argues that the U.S. government's bailout of Citigroup fails to violate Mexican law...
A critical study of the common law, from a law and economics perspective, Florida International University College of Law (2010)
United States legal realism survived in the later part of the 20th century in the...
Between ancient Roman law and modern law and economics, introducing the legal system for 21st-century Latin America and the Caribbean, Northwestern University School of Law (2010)
Within the civil-law world, law and economics is more likely to become dominant in Latin...
Wikicódigocivil y la recodificación del ordenamiento jurídico en el siglo XXI, Escuela Libre de Derecho e Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (2010)
Como un sistema de incentivos y sistema de comunicación, el Derecho privado decisivamente hace posible...
Desde el genio del Derecho romano, hasta la innovación del análisis económico: hacia la proyección de un nuevo código civil modelo para Latinoamérica, Universidad del Pacífico, Escuela de Postgrado (2009)
La lupa viene desde hace tiempo ampliando la visión que tienen los latinoamericanos sobre el...
Economic analysis of the common law and ius commune
The path dependence of the common law, from a Roman law perspective, Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2011)
Most law and economics scholarship commends the United States’ legal system as a model of...
Las insuficiencias del common law angloamericano, Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Escuela Libre de Derecho (2010)
Los latinoamericanos sufrimos de una especie de fetichismo por el ordenamiento jurídico del país del...
A critical study of the common law, from a law and economics perspective, Florida International University College of Law (2010)
United States legal realism survived in the later part of the 20th century in the...
The genius of private law (beyond private property rights and free contracting), ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2008)
Both the civil-law and the common-law traditions are equal when it comes to defining property...
Well, are property rights absolute?, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2007)
This paper argues that one reason for the obvious success of Rome was its legal...