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Jorge Luis Varela del S.

Attorney

Education: Philosophy Faculty, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Bachelor of Philosophy, 1983). School of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Bachelor of Laws, 1986). University of Wisconsin, Diploma in North American Law and Legal Institutions and American Constitutional Law (1989). The Washington College of Law of The American University, Master of Laws in International Environmental Law, MILS (1991). The National Law Center at George Washington University, SJD Doctorate in Public Law (1997).

Admitted to Practice: 1987.

Academic Activity: Professor of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Legal English and North American Law, and Comparative International Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Universidad Diego Portales, Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad Gabriela Mistral and Universidad del Desarrollo. He is also professor of International Environmental Law and Comparative Law at Tulane University (Louisiana) and at universities in Central America (1986-2014). Speaker and scholar at various universities in the U.S. (between 1989 and 2016).

Other Activities: Former international staff member at OEA and PNUMA, with headquarters in Mexico; Nairobi, Kenya; and Washington DC. Consultant for BID USAID, USEPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) and the World Bank (1989-2005). Government advisor for Perú, Paraguay, Bolivia, Brazil, Panama and El Salvador between 1997 and 2006.

Publications: As author or co-author:

• “El Recurso de Protección en Materia Tributaria.”
•  “Estudio Crítico Constitución 1980.”
• “Nafta and the Environment”. Kluwer Law International, Seymour Rubin, Dean C. Alexander (editors) The Hague-London-Boston.
• “Liberalización del Comercio Internacional y Protección del Medio Ambiente (co-authored).
• La Irreprochable Conducta Anterior en la Doctrina y la Jurisprudencia”, by Editorial Jurídica de Chile.
• Investigator for permanent publications in Pontificia Universidad Catolica’s Revista Chilena de Derecho (during the 80s and 90s); Universidad del Desarrollo’s Revista de Actualidad Jurídica (2010 to 2013). Author of multiple publications between 1986 and today.

Languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese.