Adriana Garcia is an experienced lawyer and legal scholar with a focus on the rule of law, human rights, reparations, and judicial independence. With a career spanning prestigious organizations and academic institutions, Adriana has played a significant role in promoting judicial independence and protecting human rights, particularly in Latin America. Her practical experience includes positions such as Dean of Students at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas’ (CIDE) Law School and law clerk to Judge Gabriel Leyva Lara at the Mexico City´s Administrative Court.

Adriana holds a doctorate (JSD) from the University of Chicago Law School, a juris doctor degree from the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, an LL.M. from the University of Chicago, and a master’s degree in Law and Economics from the Complutense University of Spain. She has taught at several universities, including CIDE, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (The City University of New York), and New York University (NYU).

As a professor at CIDE’s Law School, Adriana has been actively involved in research and initiatives related to law and economics, access to justice and administrative courts in Mexico. Her work on developing indicators for measuring access to justice has contributed to a comprehensive understanding of the field. Adriana has managed national projects, supervised research on Mexico’s National Anti-Corruption System, and provided expertise on reparations in transitional justice structures. She has also led projects on the right to access information and the administrative justice component of the Diálogos por la Justicia Cotidiana project, focusing on access to the justice system in Mexico.

In her role as an independent consultant, Adriana has made significant contributions to various organizations, including the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Venezuela, the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF), and the Open Society Justice Initiative (OSJI). She has developed litigation strategies to assist victims of human rights violations in Mexico, Brazil, Peru, Nepal, and Venezuela.

Adriana has published several papers and books on judicial independence, transparency, and state financial liability. Her most recent publications include “Testing an application of the political insurance model: The case of the Mexican state-level administrative courts” in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, “Truth and Justice as essential components of reparations in enforced disappeared cases” in Enforced Disappearances in Mexico, a sociolegal analysis of the phenomenon and “State Financial Liability, practice and lessons from Colombia and the United States” in State Financial Liability, advancements and challenges both published by Tirant Blanch. She has also published casebooks on Law and Economics and Administrative Law by Oxford University Press.