Nuno Garoupa is Professor of Law, the H. Ross and Helen Workman Research Scholar and Co-Director of the Illinois Program on Law, Behavior & Social Science at the University of Illinois College of Law. Currently, Nuno is also a Research Affiliate, FEDEA (Madrid). He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of York (UK), also holds an LLM from the University of London. He has a long established research interest in the economics of law and legal institutions. The results of this research have been published in the Journal of Legal Studies; Journal of Law and Economics; Journal of Legal Analysis; Journal of Law, Economics and Organization; American Law and Economics Review; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Oxford Journal of Legal Studies; American Journal of Comparative Law; Cambridge Law Journal; Journal of Comparative Law; Journal of Law and Society; European Review of Private Law; European Business Organization Law Review; Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law; European Economic Review; Economic Journal among other journals. Nuno has served as Vice-President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2004-2007), Member of the Boards of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (2006-2009) and of the Latin America and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2009-2011), and co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics (2004-2010) and of the International Review of Law and Economics (since 2012). He has been awarded the Spanish Julian Marias Research Prize 2010.
Articles
Choosing Between the Government and the Regions: An Empirical Analysis of the Italian Constitutional Court Decisions (with Lucia Dalla Pellegrina), European Journal of Political Research (2013)
Delays in Medical Malpractice Litigation in Civil Law Jurisdictions: Some Evidence from the Italian Court of Cassation (with Veronica Grembi), Health Economics, Policy and Law (2013)
Judging Under Political Pressure: An Empirical Analysis of Constitutional Review Voting in the Spanish Constitutional Court (with Fernando Gomez and Veronica Grembi), Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (2013)
Judicial Roles in Non-Judicial Functions (with Tom Ginsburg), Washington University Global Studies Law Review (2013)
On the Judicial Interest Rate: Towards a Law and Economics Theory (with Hugo Acciarri), Journal of European Tort Law (2013)
Unpublished Papers
Judicial Independence and Party Politics in the Kelsenian Constitutional Courts: The Case of Portugal (with Sofia AmaralGarcia and Veronica Grembi), University of Illinois Legal Working Paper Series (2008)
The Unsolvable Dilemma of a Paretian Policymaker (with Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci), George Mason University School of Law Working Papers Series (2004)
Scope of Liability, The Vanishing Distinction between Negligence and Strict Liability (with Pablo Salvador Coderch, Nuno Garoupa, and Carlos Gomez-Liguerre), Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) Annual Papers (2004)
Other
The Economics of Judicial Councils (with Tom Ginsburg), Berkeley Program in Law & Economics (2007)
CASHING BY THE HOUR: WHY LARGE LAWFIRMS PREFER HOURLY FEES OVER CONTINGENT FEES (with Fernando Gomez-Pomar), German Working Papers in Law and Economics (2006)
Regulation of Professions in the US and Europe: A Comparative Analysis, American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings (2006)
Sentencing Guidelines and TIS Legislation, Judges and Parole Boards: Has Bargaining Power Changed in Sentencing? (with Dhammika Dharmapala and Joanna Shepherd), American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings (2006)