Aura Guerra de Villalaz

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Law and Political Science
(Panama University)
Master of Laws (M.D) U.N.A.M.
(Autonomous University of Mexico)
Doctorate Studies U.N.A.M.

EXPERIENCE

Panama University:

• Director of the Legal Research Center
• Professor of Criminal Law
• Seminar Professor (Graduation Work)
• Dean of the Faculty of Law
• Professor of Criminal Law Masters

Santa Maria La Antigua University:

• Professor of Criminal Law (General Part)
• Professor of Criminal Law (Special Part)
• Professor of Human Rights Master

Latin University:

• Professor of Criminal Procedural Law

Autonomous University of Chiriqui:

• Professor of Criminal Procedure Law

Judicial Authority:

Seventh Circuit Judge, Criminal Branch

• Fourth Circuit Judge, Civil Branch
• Rapporteur of the Supreme Court of Justice
• Secretary of the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice
• Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice

Public sector. National and International:

• Director of the Civil Registry
• Latin American Representative in the Prevention Committee of the Crime, ECOSOC, United Nations (1980-1990)
• Judge Ad-Littem of the International Criminal Court for the Crimes of Rwanda
• Security Council of the United Nations (2004-2008)
• Member of the review commission of the Minimum Rules for the Treatment of the Prisoners. UN (2010-2015)

Exercise of the Legal Profession

• Member of the Forensic Firm CARRILLO, VILLLALAZ Y MUÑOZ
• Member of the Forensic Firm VILLALAZ Y ASOCIADOS

OTHER EXECUTORIES

• Member of the Review Commission of the Criminal Code (1982)
• Member of the Codifying Commission of the Family Code
• Member of the Review Commission of the Draft of the Penal Code (1998)
• Member of the Review Commission of the Proposed Draft Code of Procedure Criminal (1999)
• Drafting Commission of the Regulation of the Judicial Career and of the School Judicial
• Drafting Commission of Law 11 of 1981 (organic of the University of Panama)
• Coordinator of the Study-Diagnosis of the Administration of Justice in Central America and Panama. (1986-1988)
• Environmental Crimes – (Revision and elaboration of the Law)

INVESTIGATIONS, CONFERENCES, SEMINARS-WORKSHOPS AND PUBLICATIONS

• Criminal Jurisprudence. Center for Legal Research (1944-1967)
• Constitutional Jurisprudence Volume I, II and III.
• Legal Research Bulletins, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
• Yearbooks of Law (Recensions, magazines, jurisprudence, articles) number 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
• The Crime of Abortion Caused. Editorial Senda (1980)
• Women’s rights. Separate
• Treaty of Panamanian Criminal Law. Editora Panamá Viejo (1977), Reissue, (1980). Coauthor.
• Women and the Struggle for their Rights. University Editor (1985)
• Criminal Codification in Panama. Printing Agency Judicial (1994)
• The Rule of Law in Panama. Criminal Justice Material. Printing Organ Judicial (1995)
• Criminal Justice in the Nineties. Printing Judicial Body (1997)
• The Civil and Criminal Cassation. Imprenta Temis, Bogotá, 2nd ed. Legal Systems (2001)
• Special Criminal Law Treaty, Volume I (2001)
• Comments to the Criminal Code. Edit. Mizrachi & Pujol (2001)
• Special Criminal Law Mizrachi & Pujol (2002)
• Criminal Law Manual. General Part Edit. Chen, Panama (2009)
• Compendium of Criminal Law. Special part Panama (2010), 3rd. Edition (2017)
• The Criminal and Civil Liability of the Physician (2015)
• Articles in national and foreign magazines on Criminal Law, Juvenile Law, Family Law, Prison Law, Human Rights and Women’s Rights
• Conferences and presentations at Conferences, Seminars, Forums in Centers National and Foreign University Students (Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Honduras, Ecuador, Chile, Guatemala, Spain, Canada, Austria, Italy)
• Radio and television program on legal, social and political issues. (1963 – 1968 Radio 10, Home Radio, KW Continent 2012-2015)

RECOGNITIONS

• Medal Dr. Raquel de León
• Medal Clara González de Berhinger
• Medal of Merit – CEIJAP
• Chapter of Honor Sigma Lambda. U.P.
• Distinguished Woman – 2000. Santa María la Antigua University
• Citizen values (2001)
• Member of the Presidential Commission to fight Corruption (2002)
• Medal of Merit Ricardo J. Alfaro. National Bar Association (2007)
• One Hundred Featured Women. Centennial of the Republic (2003)
• Magazine of the Public Ministry “Aura Emerita Guerra de Villalaz” (2014)
• Living of Teachers of the Faculty of Law of the University of Panama (2012)
• Justo Arosemena Medal, National Legislative Assembly (2017)

LANGUAGE

Spanish and English