Laver holds a law degree from the Buenos Aires University Law School and LLM and SJD degrees from the University of Virginia Law School. Laver was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School pursuing research on the relationship between anti-corruption legal and institutional reforms and cultural norms and its implications for the strategies and practices of international development organizations. As a Network Fellow, he continued research on judicial corruption in Latin America, particularly studying the influence of pervasive favoritism on judicial actors and how such influence conditions the effects of formal guarantees of judicial independence.