Adriana Garcia
Adriana Garcia Garcia is an expert advisor with the Rule of Law Lab at NYU Law.
She is a lawyer and legal scholar with a focus on the rule of law, human rights, reparations, and judicial independence. She has worked at the intersection of practice and academia, holding positions such as Dean of Students at the Law School of the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico and law clerk to Judge Gabriel Leyva Lara at Mexico City’s Administrative Court.
At NYU Law’s Rule of Law Lab, Adriana contributes her experience to projects across Latin America. Most recently, she has been actively analyzing Mexico’s judicial reform, co-authoring the report A Threat to Judicial Independence: Constitutional Reform Proposals in Mexico.
Adriana holds a doctorate (J.S.D.) and an LL.M. from the University of Chicago Law School, a J.D. from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico. She has taught at several universities, including CIDE, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY), and NYU.
Adriana has published several papers and books on judicial independence, transparency, and state financial liability. Her most recent publications include “Testing an application of the political insurance model: The case of the Mexican state-level administrative courts” in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, “Truth and Justice as essential components of reparations in enforced disappeared cases” in Enforced Disappearances in Mexico, a sociolegal analysis of the phenomenonand “State Financial Liability, practice and lessons from Colombia and the United States” in State Financial Liability, advancements and challenges both published by Tirant Blanch. She has also published casebooks on Law and Economics and Administrative Law by Oxford University Press.