About
Juan Carlos Esguerra is a partner at Esguerra JHR leading the Public Law, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution practice areas in Colombia. He has more than 40 years' experience advising national and international companies in arbitration, administrative, public and constitutional law, and civil and corporate law, and has held senior public positions including Minister of National Defense and Ambassador of Colombia to the United States; he was also Dean of Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Law School and has taught administrative and constitutional law for over thirty years.
Practice areas
Public LawInternational ArbitrationDispute ResolutionAdministrative LawConstitutional LawCorporate LawCivil Litigation
Office
Expertise
International & Domestic ArbitrationAdministrative & Constitutional LawPublic Sector / Government AdvisoryCivil and Corporate LawHigher Education & Legal Scholarship
Education
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana — Lawyer, 1972
- Pontificia Universidad Javeriana — Graduate Degree in Socioeconomic Sciences, 1972
- Cornell University — LL.M., 1973
Admissions
- Listed arbitrator, Bogotá Chamber of Commerce
- Listed arbitrator, International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)
- Ad hoc Justice, Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Ad hoc Justice, Consejo de Estado (Colombia)
- Ad hoc Justice, Colombian Constitutional Court
- Voting member, Colombian Academy of Jurisprudence (Academia Colombiana de Jurisprudencia)
Languages
SpanishEnglishGerman