  Within the Standard Model, in spite of neutrino oscillations, the flavor of
charged leptons is conserved in very good approximation, and therefore charged
Lepton Flavor Violation is expected to be unobservable. On the other hand, most
new physics models predict charged Lepton Flavor Violation within the
experimental reach, and processes like the $\mu \to e \gamma$ decay became
standard probes for physics beyond the Standard model. The MEG experiment, at
the Paul Scherrer Institute (Switzerland), searches for the $\mu \to e \gamma$
decay, down to a Branching Ratio of about $5 \times 10^{-13}$, exploiting the
most intense continuous muon beam in the world and innovative detectors. In
this talk I will present the latest results from MEG, and the status of its
upgrade (MEG-II), aiming at an improvement of the sensitivity by one order of
magnitude within this decade.
