Professor Juan Javier del Granado, Academic Dean at Alben Barkley Law School and Director of the
Latin American and Carribean Law and Economics Center at George Mason Law School, has just announced that next year’s
Law and Economics meeting will be held at the
Escuela Superior de Economia y Negocios (ESEN) in El Salvador.
Law and Economics is a program that offers training and courses to students, lawyers, and judges on the nexus between law and economics and on judicial issues that arise from that relationship. ESEN is a small private school, established by a group of business leaders, that has branched out to include a law school. Juan Javier says that hosting such a program in small countries like El Salvador is “of great strategic importance for law and economics.” Rafael Barraza, former president of the Salvadoran Central Bank, who led the dollarization process, and director of the University, has spoken at Atlas programs and at several Atlas supported think tanks. Carlos Cáceres, chairman of the board of Chilean institute
Libertad y Desarrollo, is also a member of the board of ESEN.
Great idea. am a lawyer by training. Was fortunate in that besides lecturing in law for 8 years, I also was my country’s Minister of Finance for 8 years. Since then I spend as lot of time understanding the challenge poverty presents us. I thus see the need for lawyers particularly in the developing countries to understand the interface between the law and economics.