Esguerra JHR

Public Law, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Partner of the Public Law, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice areas

He has more than 40 years of experience advising national and international companies in arbitration, administrative law, public law, constitutional law and civil and corporate law.

Apart from his professional experience, Juan Carlos Esguerra has occupied various public positions in Colombia such as: Secretary General and Vice-Minister of Communications, elected Delegate to the National Constitutional Assembly in 1991, Minister of National Defense, Ambassador of Colombia to the United States, and Minister of Justice.

He was Dean of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Law School, and for more than thirty years he has been a professor of Administrative Law and Constitutional Law in the same University. He has also served as professor of Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Economic Law at the Externado University, Andes University, and Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario University. Additionally, he is a member of the Cornell Law School Advisory Council (U.S.A.).

Spanish, English, German

He is a voting member of the Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence (Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia), and has been an ad hoc Justice for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Consejo de Estado, and Colombian Constitutional Court.

Listed arbitrator of the Bogotá Chamber of Commerce and the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris (ICC).

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Lawyer, 1972 Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Graduate Degree in Socioeconomic Sciences, 1972 Masters Degree in Law (LL.M), Cornell University, 1973