Established to foster the economic approach to legal studies

Centro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Derecho y Economía

Welcome to the CLACDE

Since 1995, the members of the Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Association (ALACDE) have sought to raise awareness of ground-breaking work in the economic analysis of law through academic discussion and debates and responded to the urgent need to strengthen inter-university cooperation, at the organisation's annual law-and-economics meetings or at the group's Web site. Click here and you will be directed the ALACDE's web site hosted by IIT/Chicago-Kent College of Law. Now the ALACDE is in a position to develop a judicial training programme which actively targets judges, rather than simply expecting that the organization's other activities will raise awareness of law and economics in the legal profession and passively have a ripple effect on to the bench.

 

As part of this effort, the ALACDE and George Mason University School of Law's Law and Economics Center are establishing the Latin American and Caribbean Law and Economics Center (CLACDE), to ensure that this judicial training programme continues into the future throughout the Western Hemisphere. Since much of the effort will entail 'creating solutions as we go along,' a learning culture is a critical component of the judicial training programme. The members of the ALACDE seek to preserve for tomorrow the expertise that the people who organise these seminars have today, "tacit" knowledge in addition to "explicit" knowledge. This case for a more integrated institutional structure for the ALACDE through the creation of the CLACDE is at the core of achieving institutional memory and assuring that what is learned is preserved for the future.

 

Juan Javier del Granado, Director

Flavia Santinoni Vera, Associate Co-Director

 

Knowledge preservation efforts and the effective leveraging of organisational knowledge

 

Judges as legal norm entrepreneurs

 

A program of inter-university cooperation between the law faculties of the North and South

To contact us:

Tel. 1 (703) 993-8028

Fax 1 (703) 993-8181