Licensed Attorney. He received his Master’s and Juris Doctor degrees from the University of Frankfurt, Federal Republic of Germany.
With a truly global perspective, he has pursued advanced studies in criminal Law and criminal justice administration at the prestigious Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and the Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (UNAFEI), Tokyo, Japan, respectively.
As a testament to his leadership and influence in the field, he served as Dean, Professor of Criminal Law, and Coordinator of the Master’s Program in Criminal Sciences at the Law School of the University of Costa Rica.
Former Judge of Cassation and Appeals Court of the II Judicial Circuit of San José. Former Director of the Judicial School. Worked as Alternate Magistrate of the Third Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica.
Lecturer and International Consultant in Criminal Law, Criminal Policy, and Personal Data Protection Law.
Member of the Ibero-American Network of Personal Data Protection.
He participated in discussing criminal legislation in various Central American and Caribbean countries. His contribution was fundamental to the discussion that led to the new Penal Code of Nicaragua in 2007 and Ecuador in 2010. He also participated for several years in various commissions to review the Draft of the Criminal Code of Costa Rica. He contributed as a drafter of the Model Law on Access to Public Information commissioned by the Organization of American States of the Draft for the Law for the Protection of the Individual against the Processing of Personal Data, which was the basis for the recently approved legislation on the protection of personal data in Costa Rica participated in the analysis and discussion of the Law for the Protection of Personal in Nicaragua and the draft laws law on access to public information in Honduras and El Salvador.
Author of several books, essays, and articles on criminal and procedural Law, Constitutional Law, criminal policy, computer law, and new technologies, especially personal data protection, published in Latin America and Europe.
His area of professional practice is criminal Law, and he has represented essential cases in this area before the country’s criminal courts.