Biography

Sergio Puig de la Parra specialises in international economic law, including investment and trade law, business and human rights, and empirical legal methods. He holds a joint Chair in International Economic Law at the European University Institute and serves at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. He is also the Evo DeConcini Professor of Law at the University of Arizona, where he was the director of the International Trade and Business Law Program.

Prof. Puig’s academic journey includes degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Stanford Law School, where he earned his JSD and JSM. Before joining academia, he practiced law in Mexico and the United States, working with institutions like the World Bank and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

Prof. Puig has held teaching positions at Stanford University, Duke University, University of Sydney, and the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a co-founder of TradeLab, an organization aimed at promoting clinical education and providing legal assistance in international trade and investment law.

As an active scholar, Prof. Puig has published extensively in leading journals and has co-edited the Journal of International Economic Law since 2020. His book, “At the Margins of Globalization: Indigenous Peoples and International Economic Law,” highlights his commitment to exploring complex issues within international law and governance and his interest in the boundaries and intersections of different legal fields.

Fields of expertise

• Global economics