Rubén Hernández

Oller Abogados

Rubén is Senior Partner and Director of the Constitutional practice group at Oller Abogados, the premiere fundamental rights specialization in country. Considered as one of the top constitutional law experts by several publications not only in Costa Rica but in Latin America, he is one of the editors of the original Constitutional Law Jurisdiction project in Costa Rica, approved in 1991.

He is part of the panel of experts in Human Rights of the United Nations (UN) and as such was the writer of the Constitution of Equatorial Guinea (1982).

Ambassador to Italy (l994-1998), he also formed part of the arbitration tribunal in the dispute between Costa Rica and Italy over a floating dock (Geneva, 1998).

He is a retired professor of the Universidad de Costa Rica including the post graduate degrees in Public Law. He is currently a guest professor at various universities in the United States, Latin America, France, Spain and Italy. He has published 22 books on constitutional law, electoral law and parliamentary law one of them in English and another in Italian. Likewise, his articles have been part of numerous specialized publications in Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Latin America. Advisor to several local and international companies and an active litigant in administrative concerns as well as Constitutional and before the Commission and Interamerican Court of Human Rights.

EDUCATION

• Law Degree from Universidad de Costa Rica (1971).
• Doctorate in Constitutional Law from Istituto di Diritto Publico de la Universita La Sapienza in Roma, Italia (1973).

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