Hon. Mr. Dr. Juan Vicente Sola

Dr. JUAN VICENTE SOLA

UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Law and Social Sciences.
• Diplôme from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
• Diplôme de Hautes Études Européennes, Collège Michel Servet, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.
• PhD in Economics (Eseade), Cum Laude.

TEACHING ACTIVITY

• Full Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
• Professor in the Doctoral Programme in Law (UBA).
• Director of the Master’s in Law and Economics (UBA).
• Director of the Center for Law and Economics Studies at the University of Buenos Aires.

ACADEMIC ACTIVITY

• Numerary Member of the National Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Argentina, where he heads the Institute of Social Sciences Methodology.
• Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences of Spain.
• Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED), Barcelona.

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

• Deputy Judge of the Federal Chamber for Administrative Litigation.
• Member of the Center on Capitalism and Society, Columbia University, where he lectures annually.
• Has shared panels with Nobel Prize laureates Amartya Sen, Robert Shiller, Hahnemann and Edmund Phelps.
• Speaker at international congresses: The Future of Europe, Oxford University (2016); The Age of Individualism, Columbia University (2017).
• Amicus Curiae before the Supreme Court of Argentina in landmark cases (Grupo Clarín v. National Government, Google Inc., Río Atuel, religious education in Salta, dispute over Laguna La Picasa, among others).

PUBLICATIONS

• El control judicial de constitucionalidad.
• Tratado de Derecho Constitucional (5 vols.).
• Tratado de Derecho y Economía (3 vols.).
• La Corte Suprema. El nuevo proceso constitucional.

AWARDS AND HONOURS

• Eisenhower Fellow (1988).
• Konex Award for the Best Jurist of the Decade in Constitutional Law (2016).
• National Foreign Service Institute – Gold Medal for Academic Excellence.