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Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia is an internationally well-known scholar and practitioner, highly-regarded as one of the intellectual founders of the discipline known as "Law and Economics of Development" http://works.bepress.com/edgardo_buscaglia/20/ http://encyclo.findlaw.com/0580book.pdf. Since 1990, Dr. Buscaglia studies the impact of legal and judicial frameworks on economic development and the economic analysis of organized crime and associated corruption. As such, he has so far performed applied field research on the economic analysis of judicial and civil society sectors in 109 countries within Asia, Africa, and in Latin America http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1121129

Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia is currently a Senior Research Scholar in Law and Economics at Columbia University's School of Law (NY, USA) since 2005 http://www.law.columbia.edu/fac/Edgardo_Buscaglia and from 1991 until 2008 he served as a Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9883

Dr. Buscaglia also serves pro-bono as President of the Citizens' Action Institute (Instituto de Acción Ciudadana), a civil society organization aimed at rescuing and protecting victims of organized crime within societies suffering from weak states http://www.institutodeaccionciudadana.org/

Since the early 1990s Dr. Edgardo Buscaglia is frequently interviewed and publishes op-ed pieces internationally, for example, with The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/31/opinion/global/mexicos-deadly-power-vacuum.html  with the Süddeutsche Zeitung http://www.sueddeutsche.de/panorama/drogenkrieg-in-mexiko-die-verlorene-schlacht-1.66275 with CNN http://blogs.cnnmexico.com/aristegui/tag/edgardo-buscaglia/ with BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14322001 and many other media channels.

A sample of his most recent academic peer-reviewed publications include:  http://works.bepress.com/edgardo_buscaglia/

"Best and Not so good Practices against Public Sector Corruption" (2011)  http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?currency=US&id=14003

"The Paradox of Expected Punishment" (2008) in The Review of Law and Economics http://www.scribd.com/mobile/doc/40209969 ;

"Controlling Organized Crime Linked to Public Sector Corruption: Results of a Global Trends Study" with Jan van Dijk (United Nations Forum, United Nations Press, 2003) http://www.unodc.org/pdf/crime/forum/forum3_Art1.pdf

plus many other peer-reviewed publications since the early 90s http://works.bepress.com/edgardo_buscaglia/

Dr. Buscaglia is also the coeditor (with William Ratliff and Robert Cooter) of The Law and Economics of Development (JAI Press) and the coauthor (with William Ratliff) http://search.library.wisc.edu/catalog/ocm36755987

Dr. Buscaglia received his legal postdoctoral training in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at the University of California at Berkeley Law School. He also received a master's in law and economics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was a Fulbright/ITT scholar between 1985 and 1989. http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9883 He has held visiting professorships at Georgetown University (USA 1998-1999), Washington College (USA between 1993-1998)), and at the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM, between 2003-2013); UNAM (México during 2012) and Universidad de San Andrés (2013) http://www.hoover.org/fellows/9883 http://www.udesa.edu.ar/Sobre-San-Andres/Cuerpo-Docente/Detalle-de-profesor?pid=694237