Alvaro Santos
Professor of Law
LL.B., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; LL.M., S.J.D., Harvard
Areas of Expertise:
Comparative and Foreign Law, International Law, International Trade, Labor and Employment Law
Alvaro Santos is as an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches and writes in the areas of international trade, law...
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Alvaro Santos is as an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He teaches and writes in the areas of international trade, law and economic development, transnational labor law, and legal theory. He is author of The Word Bank's Uses of the "Rule of Law" Promise in Economic Development, in The New Law and Development: A Critical Appraisal (Cambridge 2006), which he co-edited with David Trubek.
Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty in 2007, Professor Santos taught at the University of Texas as a Visiting Assistant Professor (2005-2007). He has also taught at Tufts University, Melbourne Law School, and at the University of Turin-ILO Master's program. Professor Santos serves on the editorial board of the Law and Development Review. He earned a S.J.D. and LL.M. from Harvard Law School, and a LL.B. from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Alvaro Santos, The Trouble with Identity and Progressive Origins in Defending Labour Law, in Global Governance: Critical Legal Perspectives (Hart Publishing forthcoming).
Books
- Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context (Alvaro Santos, David M. Trubek, Helena Alvair Garcia & Diogo R. Coutinho eds., Cambridge University Press 2013). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Alvaro Santos, Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico, 52 Va. J. Int'l L. 551-632 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Alvaro Santos, International Law and Its Discontents: Critical Reflections on the War on Drugs or the Role of Law in Creating Complexity, 106 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 172-176 (2012).
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Alvaro Santos, Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico, in Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context (Alvaro Santos, David M. Trubek, Helena Alvair Garcia & Diogo R. Coutinho eds., Cambridge University Press 2013). [BOOK]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Alvaro Santos, The Trouble with Identity and Progressive Origins in Defending Labour Law, in Global Governance: Critical Legal Perspectives (Hart Publishing forthcoming).
Books
- Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context (Alvaro Santos, David M. Trubek, Helena Alvair Garcia & Diogo R. Coutinho eds., Cambridge University Press 2013). [BOOK]
- The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (Alvaro Santos & David M. Trubek eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2006). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Alvaro Santos, Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico, 52 Va. J. Int'l L. 551-632 (2012). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Alvaro Santos, International Law and Its Discontents: Critical Reflections on the War on Drugs or the Role of Law in Creating Complexity, 106 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 172-176 (2012).
- Alvaro Santos, Three Transnational Discourses of Labor Law in Domestic Reforms, 32 U. Pa. J. Int'l L. 123-202 (2010). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
- Alvaro Santos, Labor Flexibility, Legal Reform, and Economic Development, 50 Va. J. Int'l L. 43-106 (2009). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Alvaro Santos, Working Borders: Linking Debates About Insourcing and Outsourcing of Capital and Labor, 40 Tex. Int'l L.J. 691-805 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W]
Book Chapters and Collected Works
- Alvaro Santos, Carving Out Policy Autonomy for Developing Countries in the World Trade Organization: The Experience of Brazil and Mexico, in Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context (Alvaro Santos, David M. Trubek, Helena Alvair Garcia & Diogo R. Coutinho eds., Cambridge University Press 2013). [BOOK]
- Alvaro Santos & David M. Trubek, Introduction: The Third Moment in Law and Development Theory and the Emergence of a New Critical Practice, in The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal 1-18 (Alvaro Santos & David M. Trubek eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2006). [BOOK]
- Alvaro Santos, The World Bank's Uses of the "Rule of Law" Promise in Economic Development, in The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal 253-300 (Alvaro Santos & David M. Trubek eds., New York: Cambridge University Press 2006). [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [BOOK]
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Address:
600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
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Office Location:
McDonough 460
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Assistant:
Lydia McDaniel
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Phone:
202-662-9542 (Direct) / 202-662-9406 (Assistant)
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