Nuno Garoupa

Biographical Sketch

Nuno Garoupa is Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Graduate Studies, and former Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development (2018-2023). Previously, he taught at Texas A&M University School of Law (2015-2018), University of Illinois College of Law (2007-2015), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal (2001-2007) and Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (1998-2001). He also served as President of Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos, Lisbon, Portugal (2014-2016). Professor Garoupa received his DPhil in Economics from the University of York (UK), also holds an LLM from the University of London (UK) and an MA in Political Science from George Mason University.

He has longstanding research interests in the economics of law and legal institutions, empirical legal studies, and comparative judicial politics. Professor Garoupa served as President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2023–2026), President of the Spanish Association of Law and Economics (2017–2021), and on the Executive Board of the American Society for Comparative Law (2021–2023). He previously served as Vice-President of the European Association of Law and Economics (2004–2007) and on the boards of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (2006–2009) and the Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (2009–2011). He has also served as co-editor of the Review of Law and Economics (2004–2010), the International Review of Law and Economics (2012–2020), and Cambridge Elements in Law, Economics and Politics (2020–2021). In 2010, he received Spain’s Julián Marías Research Prize.