Aníbal Quiroga León - Managing Partner

Professional Profile

Aníbal Quiroga León is a practicing lawyer with more than 35 years of professional experience. Specialist in General Litigation, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Procedural Law, Arbitration and General Procedural Law. Consultant for public entities and national and international private companies.

In the public sphere, he served as Deputy Member of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima and President of the Superior Court of Administrative Responsibilities of the Comptroller General of the Republic, was a member of the Review Commission of the Constitutional Procedural Code of the Ministry of Justice (2010) -2011).​​​​​​​


He is a Professor at Law School (Senior Professor) with more than 30 years of experience. He has been General Editor of the Derecho-PUCP Law Review of Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.


He is a member of recognized academic entities representing Law such as the International Association of Procedural Law, Iberoamerican Institute of Constitutional Procedural Law and the Peruvian Association of Constitutional Law.

Education

  • Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) and Attorney-at-Law, Faculty of Law, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (1983).
  • Doctoral Studies, Faculty of Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain (1985).
  • Advanced Specialization Studies at Universidad del País Vasco and Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo, Madrid, Spain (1983–1985).
  • Master's Degree in Legal Research, Graduate School, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2017).
  • Doctoral Degree Validation Process, Faculty of Law, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina (2018).
  • Doctoral Studies in Law and Political Science, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (2021).

Professional experience

  • Former Advisor to the Minister of Justice and the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission (1987-1988).
  • Former World Bank Consultant for the reform of the Judiciary (1992-1993).
  • Former Alternate Member of the Superior Court of Justice of Lima.
  • Former International Consultant for the project of principles and norms of the transnational civil process of the American Law Institute (ALI).
  • Unidroit Research Fellow (Rome, 2002).
  • Member of the Review Commission of the preliminary draft of the "Código modelo para Iberoamérica de procesos colectivos" (Model Code for Ibero-America of Collective Processes), of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law (2003).
  • Member of the Advisory Commission of the Constitution and Regulation Commission of the Congress of the Republic.
  • Member of the Justice Commission of the Congress of the Republic and the Ministry of Justice (2006).
  • Member of the ad-hoc Advisory Commission of the External Relationships Ministry in the Peru-Chile maritime dispute, at the International Court of Justice in The Hague (2007-2014).
  • Member of the Review Commission of the "Código Procesal Constitucional" (Constitutional Procedural Code) of the Ministry of Justice (2014-2017).
  • Member of the Advisory Commission of the Ministry of Defense (2011).
  • Member of the Advisory Commission of the Constitution and Regulation Commission of the Congress of the Republic.
  • Executive Secretary of the Research Center for Procedural and Comparative Law of Peru (Cedepro).
  • Former Executive Secretary of the Peruvian Chapter of the Iberoamerican Institute of Constitutional Procedural Law.
  • Practicing lawyer (1983 - present).

Academic experience:

  • Professor at the Faculty of Law of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú since 1985 and Full Professor since 1997. He also served as Academic Secretary (1985–1989) and as a member of the Faculty Council (1992–1998).
  • Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Political Science and the Graduate School of Universidad de Lima (1989–1996).
  • Full Professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidad de Lima (2017–2024).
  • Visiting Lecturer and Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidad de Cádiz (Jerez, Spain).
  • Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program at Universidad Panamericana de México.
  • Visiting Professor at Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina).
  • Visiting Professor at the IIJ of UNAM (Mexico).
  • Former Editor-in-Chief of Derecho PUCP, the law journal of the Faculty of Law of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
  • Former Editor-in-Chief of the Revista Iberoamericana de Derecho Procesal Constitucional (Lima- Mexico).
  • Professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC).
  • Professor at the Faculty of Law of Universidad de San Martín de Porres, teaching both undergraduate and graduate programs.
  • Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Science and Full Professor at Universidad César Vallejo (2024–Present).

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