Carlos Cortaza Vinueza is considered an expert in Civil and Criminal Procedure, Criminal Law, Economic Criminal Law and Tort Law, where he maintains an important professional presence in the field. During his professional practice, he has been and is a lawyer of public and private, national and international institutions, also of many belonging to the Ecuadorian financial system and, in addition, of all types of organizations, always in the area of litigation, particularly criminal and other related areas.
PRACTICE AREAS
- White-Collar Crime
- Economic Criminal Law
- Tort Law.
- Dispute Resolution
EDUCATION
- Universidad Externado de Colombia (Colombia, 2024)
- Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (Chile, 2023)
- San Francisco de Quito University (Ecuador, 2023)
- Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (Ecuador, 2021)
- University of Salamanca (Spain, 2015)
- University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 2003)
- University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 2001)
- National University of Cordoba (Argentina, 2001)
- Catholic University of Santiago de Guayaquil (Ecuador, 1994)
PUBLICATIONS
- Separation between criminal law and administrative sanctioning law.
- Criminal law and the press.
- The appeal in the Amparo de Libertad: A question of constitutional interpretation?
- Environmental crimes: Danger (concrete, abstracto or hypothetical) or injury?
- Functionalism in Criminal Law.
- Horizontal Effectiveness of Social Rights.
- New reforms to the Organic Integral Penal Code.
- Many other studies and opinion articles, as he has published writings on Criminal Law, Economic Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal Argumentation, in the main specialized law journals in Ecuador.
ACTIVITIES
- Professor of Criminal Law I and II (2004 and 2006) at Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo.
- Visiting Professor of Economic Criminal Law (2003) at Universidad Católica de Santiago de Guayaquil.
- Instructor of workshops on the Ecuadorian Organic Integral Criminal Code at Fiscalía Provincial de Guayas, Procuraduría General del Estado, and other private organizations.
MEMBERSHIPS
- Lawyers Forum of the province of Guayas.
- Bar Association of the Province of Guayas.
- Ecuadorian Association of Criminal and Criminological Sciences.
