Helena Alviar Garcia
Helena Alviar Garcia is a Colombian S.J.D. from the Harvard Law School and served as full professor and dean of the Law School of Universidad de los Andes. She is a professor and researcher at the Sciences Po Law School.
She co-founded Dejusticia, a Tang Prize awardee for the rule of law.
Academic career
Alviar-Garcia has taught courses on Property, Public law, legal theory, feminist theory, etcetera, and wrote/edited books and scholarly articles thereof.Alviar-Garcia has been a visiting professor in universities in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Università di Torino, University of Miami, Universidad de Puerto Rico, and University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Alviar-Garcia was notably the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard in 2017, Bok Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Penn Law School in 2015, and Tinker Visiting Professor at UW-Madison in 2008.
Major publications
Books
- Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America. H Alviar Garcia, Taylor & Francis.
- Authoritarian constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique. H Alviar García, G Frankenberg, Edward Elgar Publishing.
- Law and the new developmental state: the Brazilian experience in Latin American context. DM Trubek, HA García, DR Coutinho, A Santos, Cambridge University Press.
- Social and economic rights in theory and practice. HA García, K Klare, LA Williams, Taylor & Francis.
- Feminismo y crítica jurídica. H Alviar García, IC Jaramillo Sierra.
- Nuevas tendencias del derecho administrativo. Helena Alviar García.
- Constitución y democracia en movimiento. H Alviar Garcia, J Lemaitre Ripoll, B Perafán Liévano, Universidad de los Andes.
Select book chapters and journal articles
- Abogados de ficción: libros que hablan de derecho y el derecho en la literatura. Alviar Garcia, Helena et al..
- Law and the new developmental state. DM Trubek, H Alviar Garcia, DR Coutinho, A Santos, Cambridge University Press
- Searching for women and sustainable development in Colombia: Restructuring the limits. H Alviar García, Fordham Environmental Law Review 23
- Perspectivas de género en la educación superior: Una mirada latinoamericana. Helena Alviar et al.. Editorial Universidad Icesi.
- Feminismo y crítica jurídica. El análisis distributivo como alternativa crítica al legalismo liberal. Bogotá, Siglo del Hombre. H Alviar García, IC Jaramillo Sierra. Barraza Morelle, C. & Gómez López, C. Un derecho para las mujeres: la despenalización parcial del aborto en Colombia. Bogotá, La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujere.
- g New Tools. H Alviar García, Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Institutions, and Rights, 77-93
- Leon Duguit´s influence in Colombia: the lost opportunity of a potentially progressive reform. H ALviar García, Order from Transfer. Comparative Constitutional Design and Legal Culture.
Awards and recognition
- Fulbright Award of Excellence