Dr. Juan Antonio Gaviria
SJD Program Graduate
Dr. Juan Gaviria successfully completed his S.J.D. degree at American University Washington College of Law. The title of his dissertation was “The Hold-Up Problem in Colombia Contract Law.” His areas of study include: law and economics, contract law, and international private law.
Degrees & Universities
S.J.D., American University Washington College of Law, 2014
LL.M., American University Washington College of Law, 2011
M.A., Universidad Eafit, Medellín, Colombia, 2011
LL.M., Universidad Externado, Bogotá, Colombia, 2009
J.D., Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
Publications
1. Gaviria, Juan. A Case Against the Laws on Conflicts of Interest in Colombian Corporate Law (forthcoming).
2. Gaviria, Juan & Lima-Campos, Aluisio. Introduction to Trade Policy. Work in progress. Book under contract with Routledge Publishers.
3. Gaviria, Juan. Sobre la Aplicación de la Teoría del Incumplimiento Eficiente de Contratos en el Derecho Colombiano (On the Application of the Efficient Breach Theory under Colombian Law). 44 Rev. Contexto sobre Derecho y Economía U. Externado de Col. (2016).
4. Gaviria, Juan. The Puzzle of the Lack of Colombian Case Law on the CISG. 26 Rev. Col. Derecho Int’l U. Javeriana (2015).
5. Gaviria Juan. An Experiment on the Role of Penalty Clauses and a Higher Level of Remedies for Breach of Contracts in the Prevention of the Hold-up Problem. 14(4) Richmond J. Global Law & Bus. (2015).
6. Gaviria Juan. Fundamentos Económicos de la Ley de Garantías Mobiliarias [Economic Fundamentals of the Securities Law]. Editorial Gustavo Ibáñez (Colombia). July, 2015.
7. Gaviria, Juan. El problema del hold-up en los derechos de Colombia, México y Estados Unidos [The Hold-up Problem in Colombia, Mexico and the United States]. Editorial Porrúa (México). July 2015.
8. Gaviria, Juan. Una propuesta de expansión del sistema de solución de controversias de la organización mundial del comercio como contrapeso a la tendencia creciente de los tratados de comercio preferencial [A Proposal to Expand the DSU of the WTO as a Counterweight to the Growing Trend of the Preferential Trade Agreements]. Revista Centro Derecho Económico Internacional del ITAM (México D.F.: http://dei.itam.mx/) December, 2013.
9. Gaviria, Juan. Obstáculos y Riesgos para una Exitosa Interacción entre Derecho y Economía en Colombia [Hurdles and Hazards to a Thriving Interaction Between Law and Economics in Colombia]. Contexto Revista de Derecho y Economía, Universidad Externado de Colombia, 2013.
(Received the José Ignacio de Márquez Award, which yearly recognizes the best Colombian paper on law & economics.)
10. Gaviria, Juan. A Note About the New Colombian Legal Rules on International Arbitration. 2(2) The Arbitration Brief (Nov. 2013).
11. Gaviria, Juan & Lima-Campos, Aluisio. A Case for Misaligned Currencies as Countervailable Subsidies. 46(5) Journal of World Trade 1017 (2012).
12. Gaviria, Juan & Plata, Luis. El Teorema de Coase y la Corte Constitucional Colombiana [The Coase Theorem and the Colombian Constitutional Court]. 4 Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad del Norte 22 (2012).
13. Equidad tributaria y reorganizaciones corporativas (“Tax Equity and Corporate Reorganizations”) in Revista de Derecho Fiscal 5 (2009): 77-99.
14. Retos del Derecho de Grupos Empresariales en el Siglo XXI (“Challenges of the Law of Entrepreneurial Groups in the Twentieth-one Century”) in Foro de Derecho Mercantil 9 (2005): 25-48.