Dr Gabriel Gari, BA & LLB (UDELAR), LLM (LSE) PhD (London)

Gari

Senior Lecturer

Location: Lincoln's Inn Fields
email: g.gari@qmul.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7882 8216

Gabriel is a lecturer at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary, University of London. He lectures on the LLM courses on International Economic Law, Law of Finance and Foreign Investment in Emerging Economies, Securities Regulation and Regulation of Financial Markets. He has also lectured at Penn State University’s summer programme (International Business Transactions), Universidad de Montevideo (Regulation of International Trade) and Universidad de la República (Legal Research Methodology and Sociology of Law). Gabriel holds degrees in Law and Sociology. Before joining CCLS, Gabriel practised law in Uruguay and worked for the Uruguayan Supreme Court of Justice.

Gabriel is currently working on a research project for the Inter-American Development Bank on incentives for the offshore industry and the consistency of free zone incentives with WTO law. He has also been consultant to the European Commission on a study on barriers to trade in services in Argentina and Brazil and to the European Parliament on the transposition of Life Assurance Directives in the UK, submitting evidence to the Committee on the inquiry of the ELAS affair. He also did consultancy work for UNDP and UNICEF on judicial reform in Central and South America.

Publications:

Key publications

Books

  • The Liberalisation of Trade in Services in MERCOSUR, (Cameron May, 2009), 269 pages, ISBN 13: 978 1 905017 843

Journal Articles

  • “The use of Free Zones for the Promotion of the Offshore Industry in MERCOSUR Countries: A Reasonable Choice?” (forthcoming, Inter American Development Bank Working Paper, summer 2011).
  • “Free Zone Incentives in MERCOSUR Countries and WTO Law”, 6 Global Trade and Customs Journal 5, (2011).
  • "Winners and losers in Luxembourg: A statistical analysis of judicial review before the European Court of Justice and the Court of First Instance (2001-2005)" (co-author with Takis Tridimas) 35 European Law Review 131 (2010) ISSN: 0307 5400
  •  “Assessing the Lamfalussy Process: successes and failures” (co-author with Rosa Lastra),  Journal of International Banking and Financial Law (2009) 7 JIBFL 379, ISSN: 0269-2694
  • “Legal Instruments for the Liberalization of Trade in Services at the Sub-Regional Level: The MERCOSUR Case”, 25 Penn St. Int'l L. Rev 659 (2007), ISSN: 1546-3435
  • “Trade in Services in MERCOSUR: A Pending Task”, 10 Law and Bus. Rev. Am. 545 (2004), ISSN: 1571-9537

Commissioned Reports

  • Consistency of incentives for the offshore industry with WTO law in MERCOSUR countries, commissioned by the Inter American Development Bank (June 2010)
  • Study on the existing level of liberalization of selected service sectors in Argentina and Brazil, commissioned by the European Commission (December 2008)
  • UK legal system, in the context of the Equitable Life Affair, in comparison with implementing legislation in Ireland, Germany and Spain. Project No IP/A/EQU/ST/2006-066, commissioned by the Committee of Inquiry into the collapse of the Equitable Life Society, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (with Takis Tridimas, Andrea Lista, Carsten Gerner-Beuerle and José Antonio Gutierrez)
  • Adequacy of available remedies under UK and EU legislation for policyholders from the UK and other member states in the context of the Equitable Life Affair. Project No IP/A/EQUI/ST/2006-068, commissioned by the Committee of Inquiry into the collapse of the Equitable Life Society, EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT (with Takis Tridimas, Andrea Lista, Carsten Gerner-Beuerle and José Antonio Gutierrez)

Work in Progress

  • Analysis of the suitability of the GATS for the offshore industry
  • “What role for judiciary bodies in economic integration processes?  A case study of MERCOSUR Permanent Review Tribunal’s Advisory Opinions and the proposal for a Court of Justice”
  • “Disciplines on capital transfers in trade and investment agreements”

Research interests:

“Gabriel’s current research concerns the tensions between trade and investment disciplines and the policy space to manage capital flows, the role of courts in regional economic integration processes and the value of GATS for the offshore industry. His research interests lie in international economic law, including WTO law, regional trade agreements (in particular MERCOSUR law), international investment law, and the law and economic development nexus.”