Mario R Osorio Hernandez

Mario R. Osorio Hernandez is a Senior Fellow at Georgetown Law, where he focuses on research, writing, and teaching at the intersection of trade, investment, tax, antitrust, sustainable development, and legal theory.

In addition to his academic work, Mario serves as a secretary/assistant to international trade panels established under the United States-Canada-Mexico Agreement (USMCA) and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

He began his career leading the government and legal affairs division of a trade association representing companies in Colombia’s oil, gas, and energy sectors. Subsequently, Mario served as a political appointee at Colombia’s tax and customs administration, where he provided expert guidance on trade, customs, and tax law. He played a pivotal role in supporting the passage of several tax bills, contributed to Colombia’s accession to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and held key positions in numerous international negotiations.

Mario earned his S.J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Georgetown University and received his LL.B. and B.A. (Economics) from Universidad de Los Andes (Colombia). He has held various academic appointments, fellowships, and teaching assistantships at Georgetown, and served as an adjunct professor at Universidad de los Andes.

His most recent publications are available on SSRN: https://ssrn.com/author=2789324

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Research Project

Is International Economic Law International or Economic (or Law)? This research project challenges conventional wisdom about the nature of the law of the world economic order, with a view to widening the ideational lens through which scholars and professionals perceive the legal and institutional dimensions of global economic governance. It contests beliefs that experts often take for granted in their interactions with systems of liberal international economic ordering, questioning the traditional connections between law, history, political economy, and economics. The overriding goal of this project is to encourage experts to transcend the limits of technocratic discourse, prioritizing the bargaining for surplus between interest groups and the political struggle over rents, over a focus on text, policy, and principles as the prevailing themes of legal analysis.