ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
1990-1996. Law Degree (Attorney) from the Universidad Santiago de Cali.
1997- 1998. Specialist in Criminal Law, Universidad Santiago de Cali.
2003. University Congress of Criminal Law Students. The criminal justice system facing the challenges of the new society. Salamanca, Spain.
2003. 10th Course on Current Issues in Criminology: The Different Perspectives of Crime. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2005. Course on social economy, development and self-employment: new sources of employment. Organized by the Fundación Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2012. Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Policy and Criminal Law: Current Issues, at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2012- Postgraduate Diploma in Current Issues in Constitutional Law, at the Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2013. Postgraduate Diploma in the Protection of Constitutional Rights in Contemporary Democracies, at the Universidad de Salamanca.
2012. Specialization in Criminal Law of New Technologies. Bogotá. Colegio Abogados de Bogotá.
2014. PHD CANDIDATE IN THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM “Ciencias jurídicas, económicas y sociales” (Legal, Economic and Social Sciences) at the Universidad de Burgos, Spain, with the doctoral thesis: FOUNDATIONS FOR A CRIMINAL THEORY OF PERPETRATION BY LEGAL PERSONS, supervised by Prof. Dr. D. (accredited Full Professor) Miguel Ángel Iglesias Ríos of the Universidad de Burgos, Spain.
2013. DIPLOMA OF ADVANCED STUDIES (DEA) FROM THE UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA.
2014. Postgraduate Diploma, Update on the Criminal Justice System, at the UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA, SPAIN.
2015. Postgraduate Diploma in the Prevention of Corruption in the Public and Private Sectors. Universidad de Castilla- la Mancha.
2015. Executive Program Course for Compliance Officers (Legal Controller). Wolters Kluwer Formación S. A., Madrid.
2015. Postgraduate Diploma in Administrative and Financial Law: Assistance to Public Institutions. Universidad de Salamanca.
2015. Course on the REFORM OF THE SPANISH CRIMINAL CODE, 2015. Klower Wolkter S. A. Formación.
2015. COMPLIANCE OFFICER Course. United States Interamerican affairs.
2015. 4th Congress of Young Researchers in Criminal Sciences. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2016. Course on Political Campaign Strategy, George Washington University, Washington DC.
2016. Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Law. Special Part. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2015. Compliance Officer Course at the Interamerican Usa Communittty Affairs, held in Miami, United States.
2015. Forensic Auditor Course, with the Interamerican USA Communitty Affairs, held in Lima, Peru, under the auspices of the Universidad San Marcos de Perú.
2015. Advanced Diploma in Human Rights and Conventionality Control, from the Universitá di Bologna Scuola Superiore di Studi Giuridichi and the Asociación Colombiana de Derecho procesal constitucional, held in Bogotá DC.
2015. Participation in the International Seminar “Expert or Expert Witness” in the American adversarial criminal justice system, held in Lima, Peru.
2015. Attendance at the 1st International Congress of the FICP held in Barcelona, 29 and 30 May 2015.
2017. Attendance and Paper on Compliance at the 2nd International Congress of the FICP held in Bogotá, DC, on the premises of the Universidad del Rosario.
2016. Postgraduate Diploma in Criminal Law. Special Part. Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
2017. Course on campaign simulation. Escuela Internacional de Gobierno de Madrid.
2017. Attendance at the Semana forum, “Corruption as the worst form of violence”, in Bogotá, DC, on 19 and 20 April 2017.
2017. Forum on legal certainty, organized by the Università di Salerno in Bogotá DC, 27 April 2017.
2017. 2nd International Compliance Congress, organized by Thomson Reuters, at the Faculty of Medicine of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, on 11 and 12 May 2017.
2017. 2nd International Congress on Transparency and Access to Public Information, at the Faculty of Information Sciences of the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid, from 27 to 29 September 2017.
2018. 3rd International Compliance Congress, organized by Thomson Reuters. Madrid.
2018. Compliance Officer Course. Anti-Money Laundering. Obliged Entities. New York, April 2018. United States Interamerican Community Affairs.
2018. Corporate Governance. Emphasis on financial risk management and administrative
corruption. United States Interamerican Community Affairs. New York, April 2018.
OTHER COURSES AND SEMINARS
Various courses and seminars on Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure in Colombia and Europe, and attendance at numerous forums.
1992. First Seminar on the New Code of Criminal Procedure. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
1993. Workshop Seminar on Criminal Evidence. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
1994. 2nd International Seminar on Criminal Law. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
1994. Second Seminar on the New Code of Criminal Procedure. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
1995. Seminar on the Anti-Corruption Statute, Ley 190 de 1995. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
1995. 3rd International Seminar on Criminal Law. Universidad Santiago de Cali.
2017. Conference on Criminal Policy and Criminal Prosecution. Bogotá DC. Organized by the Fiscalía General de la Nación, on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. 4, 5 and 6 July 2017. DISTINCTION
Recognition for the loyalty shown to the Universidad de Salamanca, for multiple participations in its specialization courses in Law (Salamanca, 26 June 2014).
HONORARY DOCTORATE (HONORIS CAUSA) FROM THE UNIVERSIDAD PRIVADA ICA, PERU. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Former Lecturer at the Universidad Santiago de Cali, for two terms: adjunct (hourly) lecturer. Trial lawyer 1996- 2018.
LANGUAGES: ENGLISH Instituto Harris, Cali- Colombia. ITALIAN: Università di Bologna, Italy.
PUBLICATIONS
1997 Equitipicidad, culpabilidad, preterintención y subrogados penales. Ediciones Jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez. ISBN: 958- 9333-88-5.
1998 Control de legalidad de las medidas de aseguramiento, Testaferrato, detención domiciliaria, y auxiliares en la Litis. Ediciones jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez. ISBN 958-9333-77- X.
1999 El anónimo como forma ilegal de activar la jurisdicción penal. Ediciones jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez. ISBN: 958-8087-12-0.
2002 El deber de probidad funcionarial como bien jurídico en el delito de Peculado a costa del garantismo penal. Estudios en Homenaje al profesor Herney Hoyos Garcés. Ediciones jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez. ISBN: 958-8087-82-1.
2005 Derecho penal y control social. Con referencia especial a la sociedad colombiana. In the book Serta in Memoriam Alexandri Baratta. Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca. Also published on the website of Carlos Parma, Argentina, www.carlosparma.ar
2006. La exigencia de un método en el debate actual de la cuestión de la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas. ¿Tiene un futuro la dogmática penal de las personas jurídicas?. Ediciones jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez. ISBN 958-97791-9-0.
2007. Dos estudios en el nuevo Derecho penal hipermoderno: la exigencia de un cambio de paradigma en el tema de la in-migración a la medida del ser humano y Derecho penal y control social. Con especial referencia a la sociedad colombiana. Ediciones jurídicas Gustavo Ibáñez, 2002. ISBN: 958-978-8297-86-6. Also published on the website: www.carlosparma.com
2012. Hacia dónde va el derecho penal. Un nuevo fundamento basado en el sentido común. EQUITIPICIDAD. 2nd EDITION Ratio Legis, Salamanca, Spain. ISBN: 9788493975623.
2012. La responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas. Una tarea inconclusa en España y Colombia. Ratio Legis, Salamanca, Spain. ISBN: 978-8494 014468.
2013. Participation in the International Congress on the Implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in Spain, Seville, 4 to 6 November 2013.
2014. La eficacia de las decisiones de la CIDH y del TEDH. Con especial referencia al hábeas corpus preventivo. Grupo Editorial Gustavo Ibáñez. ISBN: 978- 958- 749- 310-8.
2015. El descontrol como fundamento de la responsabilidad empresarial. El Compliance (su definición) eficaz como causal de irresponsabilidad de las personas jurídicas. La urgente necesidad en Colombia de castigar penalmente a las empresas. Revista Actualidad Penal No. 17. Instituto Pacífico, Lima, Peru. ISSN: 2313-268X.
2015. La necesidad del contenido propio del deber de las personas jurídicas delineados por un más allá de la eficacia de los programas de cumplimiento. Revista Actualidad Penal No. 12. Lima, Peru. ISNN: 2313-268X
2015. El ocaso de la noción del bloque de constitucionalidad. In AA. VV. ABOGACÍA y DERECHO. Gestión de conflictos jurídicos. Havana, Cuba. 2015. ISBN: 978-959-7234-31-9.
2016. La responsabilidad administrativa de las personas jurídicas. Introducción para una responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en Colombia. Editorial Grupo Ibáñez. ISBN: 978-958-749-516-4
2017. El compliance eficaz como causal de irresponsabilidad de las personas jurídicas. La urgente necesidad en Colombia de castigar penalmente a las empresas. Argentine journal
Pensamiento Penal. The same article in the Proceedings of the 2nd International Congress on Current Problems of Criminal Law, organized by the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, and the Fundación Internacional de Ciencias Penales.
2017. Proyecto Hoowarr sobre una responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en Colombia. Grupo Editorial Ibáñez. ISBN 978-958-749.
2017. Bases para un derecho penal de las máquinas. Argentine journal Pensamiento Penal No. 283, 10 July 2017.
2017. ASPECTOS SUSTANCIALES Y PROCESALES DE LA RESPONSABILIDAD PENAL DE LAS PERSONAS JURÍDICAS. Las nuevas personas en el derecho penal: la persona jurídica
propiamente dicha, la persona electrónica y la persona evolutiva. Editorial Leyer, in press. Blog: www.derechopenal, formerly attached to the online newspaper www.elpais.es, Spain. Blog: derecho penal in the www.elpais.es community, Spain. Topics covered:
1. Paramilitarism, guerrillas and drug trafficking in Colombia. Towards a rational-pragmatic criminal law, 2. Memory in hypermodern times, 3. Climate change and the criminal liability of legal persons, 4. The need for a paradigm shift on immigration tailored to the human being. To be continued, 5. Christmas hyperconsumption, 6. The need for a method in the current debate on the criminal liability of legal persons, 7. The new science of emotions. The 21st-century woman. The hypermodern woman, 8.
Sensitive intelligence, 9. More on evidentiary discovery, 10. Stages of evidentiary discovery, 2. 11. The effects of habeas corpus, 12. Where is criminal law heading? 13. The
theory of punishment today, 14. A few points on telephone interceptions in Colombia, 15. License of the multinational DRUMOND suspended in Colombia, 16. The case of the mining company Drumond in Colombia, similar to the Prestige oil tanker case in Spain, 17. The criminal liability of legal persons. An unfinished task in Spain and Colombia, 18. The criminal liability of legal persons in Spain. To be continued. References to the Drumond, Calenturitas and Interbolsa cases in Colombia, 19. The criminal liability of legal persons. To be continued. References to cases in Colombia, 20. The doctrine of domestic terrorism, 21. The Interbolsa case and the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia, 22. The recognition of the criminal liability of legal persons. A necessary step towards OECD membership, 23. The OECD, regarded as the club of good practices, invites Colombia on Thursday 29 May 2013, and the criminal liability of legal persons, 24. Colombia formalizes its accession to the OECD.
OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:
CEO of the Asociación colombiana de Derecho penal empresarial ASCOLDPEM.
Member of the Asociación Iberoamericana de Derecho penal económico y de la Empresa.
Member of CUMPLEN.
IN THE PROCESS OF ACAMS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING CERTIFICATION.
Columnist for the newspaper ARGUMENTOS, published by Editorial Gustavo Ibáñez, based in Bogotá DC, 2014, first edition:
“la responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en Colombia, una tarea pendiente”.
“El ocaso del bloque de constitucionalidad”.
“La necesidad de un contenido concreto y propio de los deberes de la persona jurídica, y un criterio de autoría penal para la persona jurídica ” Parts I and II.
“La cuestión antidemocrática de la contratación pública directa con las fundaciones en Colombia. La necesidad de un nuevo Estado en Colombia, para una verdadera transparencia democrática de buena gobernanza”.
“La infracción de deber propio de las empresas”. “El Compliance eficaz como causal de irresponsabilidad de las personas jurídicas”.
“Bases para un Derecho penal de las máquinas” . Columnist for the newspaper La Crónica del Quindío:
“Motivos del Proyecto Hoowarr”.
“Una tarea pendiente en Colombia”.
“Breve Ojeada al Proyecto Hoowarr sobre una responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas” (Spain) .
Director of the Anuario Corporate Compliance. Grupo editorial Ibáñez.
IN ÁMBITO JURÍDICO:
Interview in the newspaper ÁMBITO JURÍDICO. “¿ Hay que consagrar la responsabilidad penal de las empresas?
“La necesidad en Colombia de castigar penalmente a las empresas ” in Ámbito Jurídico.
“El Compliance program y la responsabilidad penal o administrativa de las personas jurídicas”, in Ámbito Jurídico.
“El caso Odebrecth y los partidos políticos”, in Ámbito Jurídico. “Propuesta de ley sobre responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas”, in Ámbito Jurídico.
“Lo que el empresario debe saber acerca de un compliance program ”, Revista empresarial de Legis. Also published in the newspaper ¿El Por qué? of Mexico City. Also in the online magazine Legal Today by Thomson Reuters, Madrid, Spain.
“El fundamento de la responsabilidad administrativa de las personas jurídicas”, published in the newspaper ¿Por qué?, Mexico City.
“La responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas, medida para combatir la corrupción”, in the newspaper DÍGAME, Bucaramanga, Santander.
“Proyecto Hoowarr sobre responsabilidad penal de las personas jurídicas en Colombia. La medida eficaz o adecuada para combatir la corrupción en nuestro país. In the newspaper ¿Por qué?, Mexico City.
“La importancia del Compliance penal en Colombia”, newspaper Ámbito Jurídico by Legis. “La importancia de los ´Compliance Program´, in Revista Ámbito Jurídico Empresarial No. 9, June 2107.
“Bases para un Derecho penal de las máquinas”, in the Mexico City newspaper ¿Por qué? Also published in the legal newspaper Ámbito Jurídico by Legis, Bogotá DC.
LECTURES:
2016. The administrative liability of legal persons. Introduction to the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia. April 2016. Hotel Marriot, Santiago de Cali.
2018. The need to recognize the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia as an effective measure to combat corruption. The new profession of Compliance Officer. Lecture at the Universidad Cooperativa, Cali.
2018. The criminal liability of legal persons and Compliance in Colombia. The inadequacy of the individual theory of crime to combat corruption. Hotel Intercontinental, Cali, Colombia.
2018. Lecture in Guayaquil: The criminal liability of legal persons and the future of criminal law. 29 and 30 March 2019.
2018. Colombia and Corporate Criminal Liability. The OECD and its requirements. The idea of a new criminal theory for companies to combat corruption. Presentation of the Hoowarr Project on the criminal liability of legal persons in Colombia, as an effective measure to combat transnational bribery, money laundering and/or terrorist financing, and environmental crimes. Palacio de Justicia, Armenia, Quindío.
2018. The criminal liability of companies. A mission for Commercial Lawyers too, delivered to the Colegio de abogados Comercialistas de Cali, at the Club Ejecutivos de Cali.
2018. Lecture in Bogotá DC, at the Ibáñez bookshop. 2018. Lectures at the Universidad Villareal, San Marcos and at the Colegio de abogados de Lima, Peru. The criminal liability of legal persons and Compliance.
2018. Lecture at the Federación de Cannabis del Cauca.
2018. Lecture at FANALCA; Cali- Valle del Cauca, on 26 September 2018.
2018. Lecture in Cusco, Peru: “The current state of the question of the criminal liability of legal persons”. 11 and 12 October 2018.
2018. Lecture in Santiago de Cali, Universidad del Valle: Is criminal liability of legal persons necessary in Colombia? 10 April.
2019. Lecture in Santiago de Cali, 23 and 24 April, on the criminal liability of legal persons.
2018. Lecture on the current state of the criminal liability of legal persons and Compliance, at the Corporación universitaria la Republicana in Bogotá.
2018. Lecture on the criminal liability of legal persons in Medellín.
2019. Lecture in Cartagena, 17 May, on the criminal liability of legal persons.
2019. Lecture at UMECIT on the criminal liability of legal persons in Panama City, 26 April.
2019. Lecture on the criminal liability of legal persons in Nueva Loja, Ecuador, 28 and 29 May.
2019. Lecture on the criminal liability of legal persons in Bogotá, on 16, 17 and 18 October.
OTHER INFORMATION OF INTEREST
1998 Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, 28 October 1998.
2003-2004. Research stay at the universities of Bologna and Modena & Reggio Emilia, Italy, under the supervision of Full Professor Massimo Donini.
2004- Guest scientist at the Institut für Kriminologie und Wirtschaftsstrafrecht of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany). Under the then direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Klaus Tiedemann
2005. Research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
2014. Candidate for Justice of the Honorable Constitutional Court following the departure of Justice Nilson Pinilla.
2016. List of Candidates for Attorney General (Fiscalía General de la Nación).
2016. President and Executive Director of the Asociación colombiana de derecho penal empresarial ASCOLDPEM.
2018. Master’s student in Corporate Compliance at EIS Innovative School. Madrid.
2018. In training to obtain the CAMS ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING certification, Miami, United States.
2018. Member of the Asociación Franco- Colombiana de juristas.
2016. Member of the Fundación Internacional de Ciencias Penales, based in Barcelona.
2018. GENERAL DELEGATE TO THE WORLD ORGANIZATION FOR PEACE OMPP/WOFP
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