Luciana Marcela Gutiérrez
Lawyer from Córdoba, specialist in criminal law with a Master's in International Criminal Law and Transnational Crimes (UNIR). Lawyer with the Argentine Ministry of Defence; represents victims of arbitrary detention and torture in Venezuela before the IACHR and UN mechanisms.
Argentine lawyer, born in Córdoba, specialist in criminal law and holder of a Master's degree in International Criminal Law and Transnational Crimes from the International University of La Rioja (UNIR, Logroño, Spain). She is a lawyer with the Argentine Ministry of Defence.
She has acted as defence counsel in complex criminal cases, including the "Caviahue" large-scale drug-trafficking case under the narcotics law, which originated in Cape Verde (Africa), and has represented senior authorities and political figures in the Province of Córdoba. She represents more than forty victims of arbitrary detention and torture in Venezuela, including the Argentine gendarme Nahuel Gallo, before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Committee against Torture.
At EICC she brings her experience in criminal litigation, evidence and the international protection of victims to representation mandates before the ICC and the regional human rights systems.
Education and credentials
- Lawyer, specialist in criminal law (Córdoba, Argentina). Master's degree in International Criminal Law and Transnational Crimes, International University of La Rioja (UNIR), Logroño (Spain).
- Lawyer, Ministry of Defence of Argentina.
- Course "Inter-American Human Rights System", Organization of American States – Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (September 2025).
- Seminar "Building the future: integrating AI into education policy", IIEP-UNESCO, Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (June 2024).
- Course "Evidential reasoning in cases involving gender-based and domestic violence", Criminal Procedure Chamber of the Institute of Legal Studies, Córdoba Bar Association (2024).
- Crisis-management course in Public International Law, Escuela Superior de Guerra "Teniente General Luis María Campos" – Universidad Católica Argentina.
- Seminars on Criminal Law and Human Rights (2009, delivered by Eugenio Raúl Zaffaroni) and "Infanticide" (2010), Faculty of Law, National University of Córdoba.
- Author of "La valoración de la prueba testimonial cuando la víctima es testigo" (The assessment of testimonial evidence when the victim is a witness), Editorial Dialéctica, São Paulo (Brazil).
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