Helena Alviar Garcia

Helena Alviar Garcia is a Colombian S.J.D. from the Harvard Law School and served as full professor and dean of the Law School of Universidad de los Andes.^[3] She is a professor and researcher at the Sciences Po Law School.^[4]

Helena Alviar Garcia
Born	Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Occupation(s)	Legal scholar, professor
Known for	International law, transitional justice, social and economic rights, feminism, Latin American law and development[1] [2]
Academic background
Alma mater	Harvard University (S.J.D. and LL.M.) Universidad de los Andes (Law)
Academic work
Institutions	Sciences Po Paris University of Wisconsin-Madison Universidad de los Andes (Colombia) (Law)

She co-founded Dejusticia, a Tang Prize awardee for the rule of law.^[5]

Academic career

Alviar-Garcia^[6] has taught courses on Property, Public law, legal theory, feminist theory, etcetera, and wrote/edited books and scholarly articles thereof.^[7][8][9]

Alviar-Garcia has been a visiting professor in universities in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, including Harvard Law School, University of Pennsylvania, Università di Torino, University of Miami, Universidad de Puerto Rico, and University of Wisconsin in Madison.^[10][11]

Alviar-Garcia was notably the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at Harvard in 2017, Bok Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Penn Law School in 2015, and Tinker Visiting Professor at UW-Madison in 2008.^[12]

Major publications

Books

• Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America (2021). H Alviar Garcia, Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-38699-8
• Authoritarian constitutionalism: Comparative Analysis and Critique (2019). H Alviar García, G Frankenberg, Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 978-1-78811-785-2
• Law and the new developmental state: the Brazilian experience in Latin American context (2013). DM Trubek, HA García, DR Coutinho, A Santos, Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-34451-8
• Social and economic rights in theory and practice (2014). HA García, K Klare, LA Williams, Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-317-96443-8
• Feminismo y crítica jurídica (2013). H Alviar García, IC Jaramillo Sierra. ISBN 978-958-665-797-6
• Nuevas tendencias del derecho administrativo (2016). Helena Alviar García. ISBN 978-958-35-1104-2
• Constitución y democracia en movimiento (2016). H Alviar Garcia, J Lemaitre Ripoll, B Perafán Liévano, Universidad de los Andes. ISBN 978-958-774-215-2

Book chapters and journal articles

• Abogados de ficción: libros que hablan de derecho y el derecho en la literatura (2021). Alviar Garcia, Helena et al. (Eds. Ana María Ferreira, Lina M. Céspedes-Báez). ISBN 978-958-784-704-8
• The Unending Quest for Land: The tale of broken constitutional promises (2011). H Alviar García, Texas Law Review 89 (7)
• The classroom and the clinic: the relationship between Clinical Legal Education, Economic Development and Social Transformation (2008). H Alviar García, UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs
• Social Policy and the New Development State: The Case of Colombia (2013). H Alviar García, Law and the New Developmental State: The Brazilian Experience in Latin American Context, Cambridge University Press, New York
• Legal reform, social policy, and gendered redistribution in Colombia: The role of the family (2011). HA GarciaAm. UJ Gender Soc. Pol'y & L. 19, 577
• The Distributive Politics of Impunity and Anti-Impunity: Lesssons from Four Decades of Colombian Peace Negotiations (2016). H Alviar Garcia, Anti-Impunity and the Human Rights Agenda, 185-215
• Neoliberalism as a form of authoritarian constitutionalism (2019). HA García, Authoritarian Constitutionalism, 37-56
• The legal architecture of populism: exploring antagonists in Venezuela and Colombia (2020). H Alviar García, NAUMAN, Gerald L. Human Rights in a Time of Populism, 81-99
• Family as a legal concept (2015). IC Jaramillo Sierra, H Alviar, CS, 92-109, Universidad Icesi
• Law and the new developmental state (2013). DM Trubek, H Alviar Garcia, DR Coutinho, A Santos, Cambridge University Press
• Searching for women and sustainable development in Colombia: Restructuring the limits (2012). H Alviar García, Fordham Environmental Law Review 23(2)^[13]
• Perspectivas de género en la educación superior: Una mirada latinoamericana (2020). Helena Alviar et al. (Eds. Isabel C. Jaramillo Sierra, Lina F. Buchely Ibarra). Editorial Universidad Icesi. ISBN 978-958-5590-57-1
• La discusión en torno a la política de desarrollo agrario: perspectivas encontradas? nuevas soluciones? (2016). H Alviar García, Perspectivas jurídicas para la paz, 470
• Distribution of resources led by courts: a few words of caution (2014). H Alviar García, Social and Economic Rights in Theory and Practice
• Feminismo y crítica jurídica. El análisis distributivo como alternativa crítica al legalismo liberal. Bogotá, Siglo del Hombre (2012). H Alviar García, IC Jaramillo Sierra. Barraza Morelle, C. & Gómez López, C.(2009) Un derecho para las mujeres: la despenalización parcial del aborto en Colombia. Bogotá, La Mesa por la Vida y la Salud de las Mujere (in Spanish). ISBN 978-958-665-797-6
• Más alla de la constitución: Obstáculos a la función social de la propiedad (2012). H Alviar García, La función social de la propiedad en las constituciones colombianas
• Violence against women as an economic issue: making sense of a fragmented field (2016). H Alviar García, Brazilian Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 3(2), 53-72
• Manual de derecho administrativo (2009). H Alviar, Bogotá: Editorial Temis
• Rethinking Law and Development in Colombia: How a Dynamic Approach Could Overcome the Chasm Between Law and Ideas of Economic Development (2016). H Alviar García, The law and Development Review 9 (2), 411-435
• Engulfed by the family: women in the Colombian Development State between 1966 and 1990 (2015). H Alviar Garcia, Revista Direito GV 11 (2), 365-390
• What Does It Mean to Be a Latina Dean-Reflections from the South (2011). HA Garcia, Cal. WL Rev. 48, 439
• International Law and Transitional Justice: Exploring Some Challenges Through the Colombian Case (2022). H Alviar-García, L Betancur-Restrepo, Cambridge University Press 116, 302-306
• The Evolving Relationship Between Law and Development: Proposing New Tools (2017). H Alviar García, Law and Policy in Latin America: Transforming Institutions, and Rights, 77-93
• Leon Duguit´s influence in Colombia: the lost opportunity of a potentially progressive reform (2013). H ALviar García, Order from Transfer. Comparative Constitutional Design and Legal Culture. ISBN 978-1-78195-211-5

Awards and recognition

• Fulbright Award of Excellence (2015)^[14]