Adriana Garcia is a lawyer and legal scholar specializing in the rule of law, human rights, reparations, and judicial independence. She has held key positions at institutions such as the Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE), where she served as dean of students, and clerked for Judge Gabriel Leyva Lara at Mexico City’s Administrative Court.
She holds a JSD and an LLM from the University of Chicago Law School, a JD from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), and a master’s degree in law and economics from the Complutense University of Madrid. She has taught at CIDE, New York University, and John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York).
Her research and consulting work focus on access to justice, administrative courts, anti-corruption systems, and transitional justice, including projects with the United Nations, the Due Process of Law Foundation, and the Open Society Justice Initiative. She has developed litigation strategies in human rights cases across Latin America and Asia.
She has published extensively on judicial independence, reparations, transparency, and state financial liability, with recent work appearing in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization and volumes published by Oxford University Press and Tirant lo Blanch.
García was an event speaker at the Dialogue.
