Institutional Development and Rule of Law

Background

I am a budding lawyer, academic, and development consultant working at the intersection of Law and Institutions.

I assist international development partners, inter-governmental agencies, host governments, non-governmental organizations, and other institutional stakeholders on matters of governance, institutional design & development, constitutional reform, legal education, and the promotion of the Rule of Law through law-based, institutional capacity building tailored to local conditions.

Training

I hold a terminal degree in business (MBA) from the Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business, a global Top-35 MBA Program in Seoul, South Korea.

I am a JD/PhD Candidate at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law and the Center for Constitutional Democracy, in Bloomington, Indiana. I am on track to receive a PhD minor in Political Science, and possess advanced graduate studies in Anthropology and Area Studies.

I have also spent time at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, where I focused on commercial dispute resolution and business regulations in Mainland China.

Expertise

I was trained with one foot in the Law and another in the Social Sciences.

I am passionate about using empirical research and legal know-how to arrive at optimal institutional outcomes for governments and organizations embroiled in difficult institutional reform processes.

I was trained to approach institutional puzzles in ways that recognize and account for their inherent social complexity; to move beyond a ‘one-size-fits-all’, ‘best practices’ approach; and to account for an institution’s given ‘fit’ with local conditions.

The importance of this approach is backed by empirics: Wherever institutional practices do not fit within or respond to endogenous, local ways of thinking, doing, or acting, institutions fail time and time again.

Experience

I have provided technical assistance on institutional reform and capacity-building efforts to governmental stakeholders and civil society organizations in Indonesia, Myanmar and Lao PDR.

I am co-founder and Director of Operations & Finance at the AMICUS Institute for Governance: A non-profit organization dedicated to providing law-based developmental and community empowerment assistance to international partners, governments, and other non-governmental organizations on areas of governance, institutional design & development, constitutional reform, legal education, and economic development.

Through my work at AMICUS, I have had the opportunity to advise international governmental and non-governmental partners on matters of bankruptcy, treaty harmonization, and legal education.

I possess both law firm and corporate professional experience as well: As a Visiting JD Scholar in Brazil, I advised Demarest Advogados & Votorantim Cimentos on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance and anti-corruption measures.

Joel Bonilla-Blondet

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