Francisco Alvarado
Other affiliations
Mansfield College
Biography
Francisco Alvarado is a DPhil Probationer Research Student at Mansfield College, supervised by Professor Dorota Leczykiewicz. In the Faculty of Law, he is co-convenor of the Comparative Law Discussion Group alongside Professor Lionel Smith.
He holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Chile, where he graduated with distinction (distinción máxima). He then earned a Master of Laws (LL.M.) in European and Comparative Private Law from the University of Edinburgh, graduating with distinction. He later completed a Master of Laws (LL.M.) at Harvard Law School, where he was a Fellow student of the Project on the Foundations of Private Law and received honours for his LL.M. paper.
He has also practised law in Chile. His expertise lies in complex litigation, encompassing civil, commercial, class action, and antitrust disputes. He worked for four years at a major law firm in Chile, followed by another four years as a Court Clerk at the Chilean Antitrust Court.
Research
His doctoral research explores the phenomenon of opportunism from the perspective of the law of wrongs. He analyses how this phenomenon is addressed by various rules and doctrines, employing a comparative approach between civil and common law systems.
Teaching
Francisco is an Assistant Professor of Private Law at the University of Chile, where he teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and supervises dissertations in private law. At the undergraduate level, he teaches courses on Introduction to Private Law, Property, Contracts, and Torts. At the postgraduate level, he teaches the seminar “Foundations of the Comparative Method for the Study of Private Law.”
Scholarships and Distinctions
Chilean Government – “Becas Chile”
Full tuition scholarship to pursue the DPhil in Law at the University of Oxford.
Chilean Government – “Becas Chile”
Full tuition scholarship to pursue the LL.M. at Harvard Law School.
Centro de Competencia (CeCo), Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
Recognition awarded for authoring one of the three most consulted papers in 2022, among more than forty works written by lawyers and economists for CeCo.
Tercentenary Award for Excellence, University of Edinburgh, School of Law
One of only three scholarships available across all LL.M. and MSc programmes offered by Edinburgh Law School.
Ewen Cameron Scholarship in Comparative and European Private Law, University of Edinburgh, School of Law
Single scholarship awarded to a student in this LL.M. programme.
University of Chile, School of Law
Merit scholarship awarded to the top ten applicants.