Nuno Garoupa is Professor of Law and the H. Ross and Helen Workman Research Scholar
at the University of Illinois College of Law. He is also a Member of the Lemann Institute
Internal Advisory Committee, University of Illinois. Currently, Nuno also holds the
following research appointments: Searle-Kauffman Fellow in Law, Innovation, and Growth
(2009-2010); and 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 is
a former Associate Professor (Tenured), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain; Professor
(Catedrático), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Research Professor of Law at the
University of Manchester School of Law, UK; and Research Professor at IMDEA (Madrid),
Spain. 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 Law, Economics and Organization;
American Law and Economics Review; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Oxford Journal of
Legal Studies; American Journal of Comparative Law; Journal of Comparative Law; Journal
of Law and Society; International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family; Berkeley Journal
of International Law; Columbia Journal of Transnational Law; Alabama Law Review; 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 Board of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (2006-2009), and
co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics (2004-2010). He currently serves as a Member
of the Board of the Latin America and Caribbean Law and Economics Association.
