Biography
Sergio Puig de la Parra specializes in international economic law, with a focus on investment and trade law, business and human rights, and empirical legal methods. He holds the joint Chair in International Economic Law at the European University Institute (EUI), where he is affiliated with both the Law Department and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Since March 2025, he has also served as the Director of the Max Weber Programme at EUI.
Prof. Puig earned his degrees from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México and Stanford Law School, where he completed his JSD and JSM. Before transitioning to academia, he practiced law in both Mexico and the United States, and also worked for organizations such as the World Bank.
He has taught at several institutions, including Stanford University, where he led the Stanford Program in International Legal Studies (SPILS), an interdisciplinary program that integrates law with other fields of study. He is also a co-founder of TradeLab, an innovative organization that combines clinical education with real-world legal assistance in international trade and investment law.
Prof. Puig has contributed extensively to 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, examines the intersection of Indigenous rights and international economic law. In his most recent book, Latin American International Law in the Twenty-First Century (co-authored with Chehtman and Huneeus), Prof. Puig offers the first comprehensive survey of Latin America's approaches, developments, and contributions to international law.