Alejandro Garro

Biography

Professor Garro teaches at Columbia University School of Law, where he is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law. He is also Honorary Professor of Law at the National University of Buenos Aires.
Prof. Garro was awarded the degree of “abogado” from the National University of La Plata, where he practiced law during his formative years. He received a master’s degree by Louisiana State University, where he taught Comparative Law and Secured Transactions. He subsequently moved to New York to pursue further graduate legal studies at Columbia University School of Law, He was awarded a doctoral degree in law (JSD) by Columbia University and has been teaching at Columbia ever since.

He has authored books on international commercial arbitration (“Law and Practice of Arbitration in Latin America”, Juris Net, 2001; “Commercial and Labor Arbitration in Central America”, Juris Publications, 1991),International Sale of Goods (“Compraventa internacional de mercaderias, 2d ed., Thomson-Reuters, 2001), and secured transactions (“Difficulties in obtaining secured lending in Latin America, in Emerging Financial Markets and Secured Transactions, ed. by J. Norton and M. Andenas, Kluwer, 1998). He has played a significant role as legal advisor to the Argentine delegation to UNCITRAL’s efforts of law reform in the field of secured transactions and is currently a member of UNIDROIT’s working group on the preparation of the Guide to Enactment of the recently adopted Model Law on Factoring.

Professor Garro has been teaching International Business Transactions and Dispute Resolution at Columbia. He also teaches at the University of Buenos Aires, where he was appointed Honorary Professor of Law. He has been admitted to practice in Buenos Aires, New York. He is now Visiting Professor of Law at ICADE Law school in Madrid.