Javier El-Hage | |
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Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (
LLB) Complutense University ( LLM) Columbia University ( LLM) |
Carlos Javier El-Hage is an international attorney admitted to practice in the state of New York, United States. [1]
Born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, El-Hage obtained his law degree at Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He is also a Fulbright-LASPAU scholar, and holds master's degrees in international law from Columbia University School of Law, [2] and Complutense University of Madrid. [3]
El-Hage has worked as a professor of constitutional law at UPSA, [4] and has lectured on international law issues in the US and other places in Latin America, including at Harvard Law School, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect,[ citation needed] Brazil's Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado [3] and Argentina's University of CEMA. [5]
El-Hage's opinions in English have appeared in journals in the US and the UK, including in the Americas Quarterly, [6] Forbes magazine, [7] The Wall Street Journal, [8] the National Journal, [9] Wired, [10] and the Washington Post [11]
El-Hage is also the author of the book International Law Limitations for the Constituent Assembly: Democracy, Human Rights, Foreign Investment and Drug Control. [12] The book was presented as part of a package with relevant legal literature to all members of the Bolivian Constituent Assembly (BCA) 2007–2008. As a result, the author was invited by the BCA to provide expert testimony on international investment law and international human rights law.
In 2010, El-Hage authored HRF's report entitled, "The Facts and the Law behind the Democratic Crisis of Honduras 2009-2010", which was extensively quoted by the Honduras Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 2011 report. [13]
In 2011, El-Hage authored HRF's amicus curiae brief that was filed with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on the case of Leopoldo López Mendoza v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. [14] In 2011 and 2012, El-Hage participated as a judge at the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition, [15] organized since 1996 by American University's Washington College of Law. [16]
Javier El-Hage, general counsel for the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, which supported Mr. López during the case, said that if Venezuela ignores the ruling the opposition might question the entire election process next year. 'I believe that the Venezuelan government should respect the ruling. If not, the opposition could claim that the coming elections will not be free and fair,' he said. 'The decision has no appeal. In order to get to the IACHR, you have to exhaust all legal steps in Venezuela'.
Javier El-Hage pointed specifically to Insulza's handling of threats to free speech in Venezuela and the coup in Honduras last June. 'The secretary-general of the U.N. has absolutely no power to say anything about democracy of member states, but Insulza can express himself about both human rights and democratic rights,' El-Hage said. 'Insulza had a chance to mediate before and after the coup and didn't, and this misstep is a way of behaving that indicates how he responds to a crisis. Our contention is the issue of democracy is going to be completely off the agenda for the next five years if he is re-elected.' The OAS was unavailable for comment in Insulza's defense.
Javier El-Hage | |
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Born | |
Education |
Private University of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (
LLB) Complutense University ( LLM) Columbia University ( LLM) |
Carlos Javier El-Hage is an international attorney admitted to practice in the state of New York, United States. [1]
Born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, El-Hage obtained his law degree at Universidad Privada de Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He is also a Fulbright-LASPAU scholar, and holds master's degrees in international law from Columbia University School of Law, [2] and Complutense University of Madrid. [3]
El-Hage has worked as a professor of constitutional law at UPSA, [4] and has lectured on international law issues in the US and other places in Latin America, including at Harvard Law School, the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson Institute, the Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect,[ citation needed] Brazil's Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado [3] and Argentina's University of CEMA. [5]
El-Hage's opinions in English have appeared in journals in the US and the UK, including in the Americas Quarterly, [6] Forbes magazine, [7] The Wall Street Journal, [8] the National Journal, [9] Wired, [10] and the Washington Post [11]
El-Hage is also the author of the book International Law Limitations for the Constituent Assembly: Democracy, Human Rights, Foreign Investment and Drug Control. [12] The book was presented as part of a package with relevant legal literature to all members of the Bolivian Constituent Assembly (BCA) 2007–2008. As a result, the author was invited by the BCA to provide expert testimony on international investment law and international human rights law.
In 2010, El-Hage authored HRF's report entitled, "The Facts and the Law behind the Democratic Crisis of Honduras 2009-2010", which was extensively quoted by the Honduras Truth and Reconciliation Commission's 2011 report. [13]
In 2011, El-Hage authored HRF's amicus curiae brief that was filed with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, on the case of Leopoldo López Mendoza v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. [14] In 2011 and 2012, El-Hage participated as a judge at the Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court Competition, [15] organized since 1996 by American University's Washington College of Law. [16]
Javier El-Hage, general counsel for the New York-based Human Rights Foundation, which supported Mr. López during the case, said that if Venezuela ignores the ruling the opposition might question the entire election process next year. 'I believe that the Venezuelan government should respect the ruling. If not, the opposition could claim that the coming elections will not be free and fair,' he said. 'The decision has no appeal. In order to get to the IACHR, you have to exhaust all legal steps in Venezuela'.
Javier El-Hage pointed specifically to Insulza's handling of threats to free speech in Venezuela and the coup in Honduras last June. 'The secretary-general of the U.N. has absolutely no power to say anything about democracy of member states, but Insulza can express himself about both human rights and democratic rights,' El-Hage said. 'Insulza had a chance to mediate before and after the coup and didn't, and this misstep is a way of behaving that indicates how he responds to a crisis. Our contention is the issue of democracy is going to be completely off the agenda for the next five years if he is re-elected.' The OAS was unavailable for comment in Insulza's defense.