Raquel Romero

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Raquel Romero

Senior Associate, El Salvador
raquel.romero@ariaslaw.com

Experience

Raquel is part of the Litigation Department. She has solid experience in the judicial field, which allowed her to specialize in civil, commercial, intellectual property and constitutional procedures. In addition to that, she has experience and knowledge in the fields of electricity and telecommunications, and administrative procedures before sanitary authorities. She is a professor of Constitutional Law and Procedural Law at various universities in the country, at a undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Career

Bachellor of Laws from the Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas. Honorable Mention Cum Laude.

Authorized by the Supreme Court of Justice to practice as Lawyer and Notary.

Master in Constitutional Law from the Menéndez Pelayo International University and the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies of Madrid.

Master in Human Rights and Democratization for Latin America and the Caribbean from the International Center for Political Studies of the University of San Martín, Argentina.

To obtain her masters degrees, she has been a fellow of the Ministry of the Presidency of Spain and the European Union, respectively.

Her complementary training includes, among others, the following studies:

Diploma in Labor Law, Judicial Training School.

Course Notions of American Immigration Law. Specialized Institute of Higher Education for Diplomatic Training (IEESFORD) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Diploma in Human Mobility. Specialized Institute of Higher Education for Diplomatic Training (IEESFORD).

Diploma in Womens Human Rights. Organization of American States and Austral University of Argentina.

Diploma on Legislative Technique. CEDDET Foundation and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).

Diploma on Constitution and open society of interpreters. José Simeón Cañas Central American University.

Diploma on “Constitutional democracy and legal protection of the citizen”. José Simeón Cañas Central American University.

Diploma on Oral litigation techniques and Evidentiary Law. José Simeón Cañas Central American University.

Seminar on cybercrime and digital evidence. International Law Enforcement Academy.

Seminar on New Trends in Constitutional Law. Royal Complutense College at Harvard and Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies of Madrid, Spain.

Memberships

International Bar Association (IBA)

Publications

Chapter on book: Romero Arias, Brenda Raquel (2021). The protection of internally displaced persons in El Salvador. Advances, challenges and opportunies, in Díaz-Tendero Bollain, Aída. “Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups in Central American and the Caribbean”. Centre for Latin American and the Caribbean Studies at Nacional Autonomous University of Mexico. 137-174.

Romero Arias, Brenda Raquel (2017). The analysis of the context in the Case-Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on amnesty laws, right to truth and forced disappearances. XII Legal Research Contest. Executive Technical Unit of the Justice Sector.

Romero Arias, Brenda Raquel (2017). The ownership of rights of legal persons in the Inter-American Human Rights System according to Advisory Opinion 22/16. Civil and Social Law Review, number 2. Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador.