Articles

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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...

 

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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...

 

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The future of the economic analysis of law in Latin America: a proposal for model codes (with M.C. Mirow), Chicago-Kent Law Review (2008)

Nothing excites civilian lawyers and judges more than commissions for codification. Codification is more than...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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Annotated bibliography of the legal literature of Argentina, The Latin American and Caribbean Journal of Legal Studies (2006)

This article assembles a suggested reading list of law books from Argentina for those seeking...

 

Books

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Flor de Granado y Granado (2011)

This is a collection of works by one of Latin America's most distinguished academic and...

 

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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...

 

Potosi (2003)

The ayllus tacitly / believe the whispered threats / which thunder in the sky /...

 

Legis imperium (1995)

This is an unusual book with a fascinating thesis and a wonderfully eclectic scholarly range....

 

Diccionario de enlaces de la lengua (1994)

A philologist/grammarian/lexicographer and legal scholar, the author has taken painstaking care to compile a dictionary...

 

Ensayos filosóficos, jurídicos y psicológicos (1994)

Conceived in the style of Menippean satire, this text is written in a mixture of...

 

La gran verdad : metafísica trascendental y deductiva (1989)
 

Contributions to Books

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...

 

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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...

 

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O Direito Privado precisa ser reprivatizado (post facium), O novo direito civil: ensayos sobre o mercado, a reprivatização do direito civil e a privatização do direito público (2008)
 

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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...

 

Op-Ed pieces

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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...

 

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Hallan obra de Bentham en Guatemala, Siglo XXI (2009)

Con el reciente hallazgo, se inicia una investigación sobre la posible influencia que el Constitutional...

 

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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...

 

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For Latin America, there oughta be a (private) law, The American Spectator (2009)

Even Richard Posner now says we need a little more regulation. Nothing could be further...

 

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El genocidio de América, Blog de Bartomolé Clavero (2008)

Con los pueblos indígenas de América están en deuda monumental las gentes indígenas de Europa,...

 

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¿Qué le depara el futuro a Iberoamérica en lo concerniente a su orden jurídico?, New Media Universidad Francisco Marroquín (2008)

El Dr. Juan Javier del Granado, en entrevista con Luis Figueroa, responde a la interrogante...

 

Working Papers

The Cost of Cooter, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2008)

Legal scholarship is permeated by two powerful intellectual currents. One is ancient, the long tradition...

 

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Un nuevo código civil para el siglo XXI: un ejercicio académico (with 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, 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), Instituto Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Derecho y Economía (2008)

Legal scholars in the Anglo-American common law can overlook the connection between particular ordinances and...

 

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...

 

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...

 

A new generation of restatements: Latin America’s law and economics civil code (with Maximiliano Marzetti), ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2007)

Why is Latin America’s law and economics civil code project superior to Europe’s Common Core...

 

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...

 

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...

 

Why baroque scholastics laid the foundations for legal thought before the Enlightenment, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2007)

The Enlightenment’s legacy enriches thought at the same time that it impoverishes thought. We tend...

 

From slavery to integration: the social legacy of Roman Law, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2007)

Roman private law accounts for different experiences of slavery and racial segregation in the Americas....

 

Law-and-economics and legal formalism: never the twain shall meet?, ITAM-ILACDE Working Papers (2006)

Law and economics adherents claim to be the natural heirs of legal realism. However, law...

 

Presentations

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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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...

 

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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)
 

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La genialidad del Derecho romano, una perspectiva desde el análisis económico del Derecho, Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2009)

Law and economics aids us in understanding why Roman law is still worthy of admiration...

 

El análisis económico del Derecho Romano, Cátedra Álvaro d'Ors (2008)
 

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In comparative praise of the Anglo American law school, The Alben W. Barkley School of Law (2007)

In 1992, Judge Harry T. Edwards launched an attack on many United States law professors’...

 

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An economic analysis of legal reasoning, Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2007)

Legislatures have positive legitimacy to make law because of the power of the people who...

 

Reprivatizing private law as a countermeasure to Latin America's costly dalliances with socialism, Latin American Law Workshop (2007)
 

An economic analysis of private law, Latin American Law and Economics Association (2006)

As ancient as the distinction between private and public law is, the concept is still...

 

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...

 

Amicus Briefs

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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...