Leonel González Postigo

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Argentinian. PhD (C) from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Procedure from Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (Canada); Latin American Diploma in Criminal Procedure Reform from the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Diego Portales (Chile); Lawyer with a specialization in Criminal Law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina).

He served for eight years as Director of Training and is currently an external consultant to the Justice Studies Center of the Americas (JSCA), a technical body of the Organization of American States (OAS). He was also General Coordinator of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Criminal and Social Sciences (INECIP), a non-governmental organization in Argentina.

He has experience in technical assistance, as a consultant in the evaluation of the implementation of the Adversarial Criminal System in Panama; in the evaluation of the impact of the Management Model of the Public Prosecution Service of Guatemala; in the project "Evaluation of the Criminal Procedure Reform in Chile ten years after its implementation throughout the country"; in the Technical Assistance Project for the Implementation of the Code of Criminal Procedure in Uruguay; and Team Leader in the Project "Preventive Detention in Bolivia", among other projects.

He has participated as a lecturer or professor in seminars and training programs in the United States, Canada, Austria, The Netherlands, Qatar, China, Philippines, South Africa, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia, Guatemala, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

He is the author of several books. The most recent is "Jueces y juezas de garantías en la litigación penal" (Didot, Argentina, 2021). He is the editor of the journals "Sistemas Judiciales" (JSCA-INECIP) and "Nueva Doctrina Penal" (Editorial Hammurabi and INECIP); member of the UNESCO Chair of Culture of Peace and Human Rights at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain); Member of the Argentine Association of Procedural Law and of the Argentine Association of Professors of Criminal Procedural Law; Regional Vice-President (South America) of the International Organization for Judicial Training (IOJT) for the period 2017-2022; and has been an Expert before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on two occasions.