ALEJANDRO ESPINOZA BUSTOS

Lawyer, Universidad de Concepcion (1990)

Post Graduate Diploma in criminal investigation, Forensic Medicine and Forensic Science, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain (2001)

Diploma in Criminal Procedural Law Reform, Universidad Alberto Hurtado (2003)

Post Graduate Diploma in Litigation in Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA (2004)

Post Graduate Diploma in forensics and criminal investigation, Universidad de Murcia, Spain (2014)

Post Graduate in Advanced Litigation Techniques, School of Law, California Western, USA (2018)

Professional Practice

Criminal, civil, commercial and administrative litigation. Mr. Espinoza is a lawyer with vast experience in trials and complex cases, leading the defense of Senators, Representatives, former Ministers of State, Senior Officers of the Armed Forces, Mayors, Prosecutors and other public officials. He has also acted as prosecuting attorney in practically all the cases of rape with homicide of children and teenagers that have occurred in Chile in the last 20 years. He has extensive experience in the defense of media companies, such as television channels and radio stations. In the corporate area, he has a long practice in criminal litigation, representing banks and financial institutions, insurance companies, airlines, energy utilities, telecommunications companies, fishing businesses and real estate corporations, among others.

Relevant background

Director of Foundation “Amparo y Justicia” (1998 to date); Speaker in several seminars of Criminal Procedure Reform, Alberto Hurtado University (2004); Speaker at the Conference on sexual offenses against minors, San Diego, USA (2012); Speaker at Congress organised by the World Society of Victimology, The Hague, The Netherlands, (2012); Speaker at Congress on victimology in Melbourne, Australia (2014). Member of the Criminal Procedure Code Reform Commission, Ministry of Justice, (2018), Member of the Chilean Bar Association. Member of the Institute of Criminal Sciences.

Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Languages: Spanish-English