ACADEMY COMMITTEE FOR CHILE

Hon. Haroldo Brito Cruz, Academic Committee – Justice Haroldo Brito Cruz is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Chile. President of the Judicial Study Institute “Hernán Correa de la Cerda”. He has been president of the Association of Magistrates of the National Body of Justice, Latin American Federation of Magistrates. He has also been Vice President of the International Union of Magistrates. He is a professor of the Center University of Chile.

Hon. Héctor Carreño Seaman, Academic Committee – Justice Héctor Carreño Seaman is a former justice of the Supreme Court of Chile. He is a professor on the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile and of the Judicial Academy of Chile. Scholarship Holder Fulbrigth for the study of Law in the Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, California (1994). Internship on Paris and Burdeos about Evaluation System, Scholl of Magistrates (1997).

Hon. Diego Simpértigue Limare, Academic Committee – Judge Simpértigue Limare is currently judge of the Court of Appeal in Concepción. He has been president of the Association of Magistrates of the National Body of Justice. He is currently president of the Regional Association to Bio- Bio. He is university professor and director of the Judicial Study Institute.

Dr. Carlos Zepeda Hernández, Academic Committee – Mr. Hernández is a lawyer. He also has education on industrial civil engineering.  Dr. Zepeda Hernández is managing partner of Estudio “Espina, Zepeda & Acosta”, a law firm which specializes in business and corporative issues, handling national and international clients as D&S, McDonald Chile, Pfizer Chile, ING, Reebok Chile, Ernst&Young, Viña Tarapacá, Jucosa, Bancard, Corporación Educacional Pedro de Valdivia, Metalpar e Inmobiliaria Simonetti.

Dr. Raúl Tavolari Oliveros, Academic Committee – Mr. Oliveros is a lawyer. He is a profesor on the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile. He also teaches law at the Law School of the University of Valparaíso and of the Center University. He is co-author of the Criminal Law Procedure, co-author of the First DRAST of the organic law to the Public Department and Advicer of the Executive Authority in the DRAST of the Arbitration Law. He has published articles in legal publications on a variety of legal subjects. He is member of the International Association of Procedure Law. He is also honorary member of the Uruguayan Institute of Procedure Law. He is currently president of the Ibero American Institute of Procedure Law. Dr. Tavolari is the main managing partner of “Estudio Tavolari Abogados”, founded in Valparaíso on 1915 y and partner of “Estudio Tavolari Abogados & Rodríguez y Compañía” (Santiago).

Hon. Luis Francisco Avilés Mellado, Executive Director – Judge Mellado is currently criminal magistrate judge in the city of Santiago.  Previously he was a clerk for the Santiago Court of Appeals. He is a law graduate from the University of Chile and post graduate in criminal law in the University of Barcelona an Pompeu Fabra, Spain. He is also a litigation professor in the University Adolfo Ibáñez in Santiago and he is an assistant in the same area in the University of Chile. He cooperates with the Justice Study Center of the Law Faculty of the University of Chile and in the Judicial Studies Institute, and has also participated in several courses as an instructor in the Chilean Judicial Academy. 

Hon. Mauricio Olave Astorga, Executive Vice Director.  Judge Astorga has a degree in Criminal Law in the North Catholic University (Chile). Dr. Olave Astorga is currently judge of the Criminal Court in Santiago.

ACADEMY COMMITTEE FOR MEXICO

Hon. Jorge Arturo Camero Ocampo, President – In 1989, Judge Camero Ocampo graduated from the Universidad Autónoma in the state of Morelos, Mexico as an attorney.  He has specialties in: procedural law; administrative law; and criminal law and laws governing the judiciary from the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México, the Universidad Panamericana, and the Federal Judicial Institute, respectively.  He studied for a master’s degree in law with a constitutional focus at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Mexico.  During his career of more than twenty years of uninterrupted service in the Mexican federal judiciary, Judge Camero Ocampo has acted as the Clerk of Court and Clerk of the District Court and Clerk of the Circuit “Tribunal Colegiado” (a court having three or more judges).  He obtained the position of District Judge through a civil service exam, and starting in 2000, obtained an appointment as Circuit Magistrate through the civil service, a position that was confirmed by the full Federal Judicial Council in recognition of the performance over his judicial career.  In 2004, Judge Camero Ocampo was designated General Coordinator of the Circuit Magistrates.  In February of 2005, he was named President of the National College of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judiciary of the Federation of Mexico.  In October of that same year, he became the President-elect of the Ibero-American Association of Intellectual Property Judges, Prosecutors, and Jurists in Munich, Germany.  Judge Camero Ocampo has been a speaker at various forums, seminars, and symposiums, both national and international, and has also published various articles and legal studies in books and journals.  He was the co-author of the book “Ley General del Sistema de Medios de Impugnación en Materia Electoral Comentada” (General Law of the System of Methods of Impeachment in Electoral Matters).  He founded, and currently directs and manages, the television program “Justicia a Profundida” (Justice to Depth) which is transmitted over the judicial channel of Mexico.

Hon. Osmar Armando Cruz Quiroz, Executive Director – Judge Cruz Quiroz is originally from Veracruz, Mexico.  He is a graduate of the Law School of the Universidad Nacional  Autónoma of Mexico.  He completed specialties in constitutional law and administrative law in the postgraduate studies division of that university.  He was Clerk of the District Court and of the Circuit “Tribunal Colegiado” (a court having three or more judges).  At the Supreme Court of Mexico, he served as Study and Account Secretary, Special Minister Secretary, Technical Secretary of the Supreme Court, and Head of the Constitutional Controversies and Unconstitutional Actions Unit.  In 2000, he was named District Judge and Circuit Magistrate in 2001.  He is currently assigned to the Ninth “Tribunal Colegiado” of the First Circuit for Administrative Matters.  Judge Cruz Quiroz has published diverse legal works, of which stand out: Cuadro Histórico de Controversias Constitucionales Tramitadas en el Período de 1917-1994 (“Historical Description of Constitutional Controversies Processed from 1917 – 1994”); Comentario al artículo 5 de la Ley General de Sistemas de Impugnación (“Commentary on Article 5 of the General Law of Systems of Impeachment), edited by the Senate of the Republic and the National College of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judiciary of the Federation of Mexico; Efectos de las sentencias en Controversias Constitucionales y Acciones de Inconstitucionalidad, (“Effects of Judgments in Constitutional Controversies and Unconstitutional Actions”); Juicios Orales (“Oral Trials); and the article Los efectos Generales en las Sentencias Constitucionales (“The General Effects of Constitutional Judgments”) in the book La Ciencia del Derecho Procesal Constitucional (“The Science of Constitutional Procedural Law”).  He took diploma courses in strategic political analysis, strategic management in public administration, and legal reasoning at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) and the international law of human rights at the Federal Judicial Institute.  Judge Cruz Quiroz participated in the courses “Select Topics of Contemporary Legal Thinking,” “Structure and Function of the Federal Judiciary,” “Specialization in the Administration of Justice in Circuit Tribunals,” and “Specialization Relating to a Federal Judicial Career.”  He has been a commentator for the “Third Regional Congress on Northeastern Electoral Tribunals,” the “First National Congress on Constitutional Justice in Mexico,” the congress of “Constitutional Justice in Federative Entities.”  He has been a speaker at various academic events at the Supreme Court of Mexico and the Electoral Tribunal of the Mexican judiciary.  Judge Cruz Quiroz is a professor in the Legal Culture Club of the Supreme Court as well as in various institutions of higher education in Mexico City and states throughout Mexico where he has given classes, courses, and conferences on constitutional law, constitutional controversies, unconstitutional actions, legal reasoning, judicial ethics, and administrative protection.  He is a professor of the specialty of the Ministry of District Courts and Circuit Tribunals, a basic course on the training and preparation of clerks of the judiciary, and a course on the preparation of clerks for the Supreme Court given by the Federal Judicial Institute.  Judge Cruz Quiroz is a member of the U.S.-Mexico Bar Association, the Association of Supreme Court Clerks, and the National College of Circuit Magistrates and District Judges of the Judiciary of the Federation of Mexico of which he is the Academic Coordinator.  He is a commentator on Justicia a Profundidad (Justice to Depth), transmitted over the Judicial Channel of the Supreme Court, which deals with diverse subjects such: oral trials; judicial public politics, computing in the judicial function, the constitutional defense of federative entities, political rights, and copyright law, among others.