Professor of Law; Anne Fleming Research Professor

Alvaro Santos

L.L.B., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; LL.M., Harvard; S.J.D., Harvard

 
 
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202.662.9542

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asantos@law.georgetown.edu

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Alvaro Santos is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA) at Georgetown Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of international trade, economic development, transnational labor law and drug policy. In 2018, he served as Deputy Chief Negotiator of the USMCA Agreement for the newly elected government of Mexico.

Professor Santos is co-editor of the books World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization (2019), Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin America (2013) and The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (2006). He is also the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters. He serves on the editorial boards of the American Journal of Comparative Law, the Journal of International Economic Law, the Law and Development Review, and the Latin American Journal of International Trade Law.

He served as Co-Director of the Center for Transnational Legal Studies (CTLS) in London in 2014-15. He regularly teaches at Georgetown’s Global Trade Academy and Harvard’s Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) and has also taught at the University of Texas, Tufts University, Melbourne Law School, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), and the University of Turin. He received an LL.B. with high honors from Universidad Nacional Autonóma de México (UNAM) and an LLM and SJD from Harvard Law School.

BOOKS
World Trade and Investment Law Reimagined: A Progressive Agenda for an Inclusive Globalization (Alvaro Santos, Chantal Thomas & David Trubek eds., London: Anthem Press 2019).
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Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context (David M. Trubek, Helena Alviar Garcia, Diogo R. Coutinho & Alvaro Santos eds., Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press 2013).
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The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (David M. Trubek & Alvaro Santos eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2006).
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CONTRIBUTIONS TO LAW REVIEWS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY JOURNALS
Alvaro Santos, Drug Policy Reform in the Americas: A Welcome Challenge to International Law, 114 Am. J. Int’l L. (Unbound) 301-306 (2020).
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MAY 15, 2021

¿POR QUÉ ES IMPORTANTE UNA GLOBALIZACIÓN ECONÓMICA INCLUSIVA?“, coverage in CNN en Español’s ‘Globo Economía’, May 15, 2021, interviewing Professor Alvaro Santos.

JULY 8, 2020

“A NORTH AMERICAN INTEGRATION THAT INCLUDES THE PEOPLE,” an opinion piece by Professor Alvaro Santos, in North American Project, July 8, 2020.

JUNE 25, 2020

SOCIALISM PAST AND FUTURE – OR SOCIALISM IS PAST, AND THE FUTURE?,” an opinion piece by Professor Alvaro Santos, in the Law and Political Economy Project (LPE), June 25, 2020.

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