A native of Chile, José Francisco García teaches constitutional law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and constitutional theory and economic analysis of law at the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. He has served as the John M. Olin Fellow at the University of Chicago law school, where he obtained a doctorate in law. In Chile, he currently directs the justice program at the think-tank Libertad y Desarrollo. In 2007, the Chilean newspaper El Mercurio named him one of its top 100 young innovators under 35 who are changing the face of Chile's economy.