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Associate

Sebastián Contreras

scontreras@besabogados.cl

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Sebastián joined the firm in 2018. He has focused his practice on criminal, civil, and regulatory litigation, handled before ordinary courts and public agencies such as the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Financial Market Commission, and the National Economic Prosecutor's Office.

Professional experience

  • Associate attorney at Claro & Cía. Criminal litigation and arbitration (2015-2018).

Education

  • Master in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences, Universities Pompeu Fabra and Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2023). Awarded as the best student of the Master, academic year 2022-2023.
  • Law Degree, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2015), graduated with highest distinction and awarded the Monseñor Carlos Casanueva prize, granted for outstanding academic performance and collaboration with the activities of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica (2014). He also received awards for outstanding academic performance (2011 and 2010).

Academic experience

  • Profesor de Ética Profesional (Penal), Facultad de Derecho de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2024 a la fecha).
  • Assistant of the Criminal Law course of professors Claudio Feller Schleyer and María Elena Santibáñez Torres, Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2014 -2022).
  • Assistant of the course Economic Criminal Law of Professor Claudio Feller Schleyer, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School (2015, 2017).
  • Assistant of the course Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure and Rule of Law of Professor Claudio Feller Schleyer, Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (2019).

Publications

  • Co-author of the work "Incommunicability in special crimes. Un análisis a la luz de la doctrina chilena", in "Justicia como legalidad. Estudios en homenaje al Profesor Luis Ortiz Quiroga", ed. Thomson Reuters, 2020.
  • Co-author of the paper "Consideraciones sobre el nuevo delito de administración desleal en el derecho chileno", in Derecho & Sociedad (52), 2019.

Languages

  • English.
  • Spanish

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