Venice Commission of the Council of Europe

President Justice, Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court

EDUCATION

• Doctorate Degree, University Escuela Libre de Derecho
• Lawyer and Public Notary, University of Costa Rica

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Legal Counsel for the Legislative Directorate and Presidents of the Legislative Assembly (1986-1990)
• Legal Counsel for the party leader of the Partido Liberación Nacional (1990-1993)
• Counsel for the Minister of the Presidency (1996-1998).
• Constitutional Procurator of the Republic (1999-2009)
• Associate Justice of the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice (2009 – to date)
• President of the Constitutional Chamber since 2018 to date)
• Current Law Professor of the Escuela Libre de Derecho
• Former Professor for LL.M. programs at the Universidad Estatal a Distancia and the University of Costa Rica
• Coauthor of six books and author of the following books: Elements of Economy in the Constitution; Budgetary Law; The Protection of the Fundamental Rights in the Constitutional Jurisdiction and its Vicissitudes; Current Problems of Constitutional Law, Heading Towards a Constitutional Populism. Other publications for review articles of Public Law.
• Speaker at various events. Among them at the International Congress and Meeting of the Sub-Commission for Latin America of the Venice Commission. The Guarantees of Democratic Process: International Standards and Constitutional Principles in Comparative Perspective, Mexico City, Mexico, November 2018.
• Lecturer at the International Congress on “Digital Technologies: Democracy and Regulation from Europe and America”, Mexico City, Mexico, June 2023.