Alex Van Weezel
Alex Van Weezel Partner +56 2 2367 3017 Secretary: Andrea Venegas LANGUAGES: Spanish, English and German.
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PRACTICE AREAS

Criminal, Litigation, Administrative Law and Administrative Procedural Law, Data Protection and Cybersecurity, Constitutional.

EXPERIENCE

Alex van Weezel focuses on Litigation and Arbitration, White-Collar Crime and Administrative Penalties.

He is professor of Criminal Law in Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and in Universidad de Chile. He is author of Beteiligung bei Fahrlässigkeit (Berlin, 2006), Delitos tributarios (Santiago, 2007), Error y mero desconocimiento en derecho penal (Santiago, 2008), Pena y sentido. Estudios de derecho penal (Lima, 2009), Límites de la imputación penal (Bogotá, 2011), La garantía de tipicidad en la jurisprudencia del Tribunal Constitucional (Santiago, 2011) and of numerous articles about Criminal, Criminal Procedural and Theory of Law. Along with the litigation practice (White Collar Crime, Regulated Markets and the liability rising therefrom), he is Professor of Law at Universidad Católica de Chile and at Universidad de Chile teaching Criminal Law.  He teaches also PhD and post degree programs and participates as relator in programs of specialization focused to participants of the Criminal Procedural System in Chile and abroad.

He is member of Chilean Bar and Ciminal Sciences Institute.

He joined Claro & Cia. in 2006 and became partner in 2016.

EDUCATION

Ph. D., Rheinische Friedrish-Wilhelms- Universitt Bonn, DAAD Scholarship, 2005.

J.D., Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, 1993.

Recipient of Tocornal and Pedro N. Montenegro awards, granted to the best student of his class, 1993