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Francisco Suarez Schanely

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Email: francisco.schanely.17@ucl.ac.uk

Francisco SS

Francisco joined the Faculty of Law in September 2024, after being awarded the Faculty of Laws Private International Law Research Scholarship.  Francisco holds two Master's degrees, from UCL and The University of Venezuela.

Francisco's interests lie within the general theory of private international law, treaty law and arbitration. His PhD thesis focuses on the effectiveness of recognition clauses as expressed in various treaty and domestic sources, particularly from Latin America and Europe, in preventing limping situations in Savignian conflict-of-law systems, including England.

 

Research Supervisors:

Research interests:

  • The recognition method in Inter-American and European PIL.

  • The judicial reform of the Venezuelan Private International Law Act of 1998.

  • Modern recognition theory and international arbitration.

 

Professional experience:

  • Private Practice. Suárez Schanely, Despacho de Abogados (http://suarezschanely.com) (Caracas, 2012-).
    • Areas of work: private international law, corporate and civil law.
  • Professional Internship at the Permanent Bureau of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. (The Hague, January-March, 2012).
    • Areas of work: international family law, access to foreign law and recognition of foreign judgments.
  • Research Assistant at the Private International Law Section of the Private Law Institute of the Universidad Central de Venezuela. (Caracas, 2009-2011).
  • National Coordinator of the Legal Department of Súmate A.C., a constitutional and political rights Venezuelan N.G.O. (www.sumate.org). (Caracas, 2007-2011).
    • Areas of work: constitutional law, human rights law, the law of N.G.Os., administrative and electoral law.
  • Clerkship at Baker & Mckenzie (Caracas, 2005-2007).
    • Areas of work: corporate and labor law.

Academic experience:

  • Lecturer of Private International Law at the Metropolitan University (Caracas, 2015-2017) and at the U.C.V. Law School (Caracas, 2010-2012).
  • Substitute Lecturer of Private International Law, Metropolitan University (Caracas, 2012-2014) and at the U.C.V. Law School (Caracas, 2009-2010).
  • Invited lecturer. The recognition theory in PIL, U.C.V. Master on Priv. Int. Law, (Caracas, 2014) and at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, (Caracas, 2010); Introduction to Venezuelan-Colombian PIL through the recognition of foreign judgments, Universidad del Norte (Barranquilla, Colombia, 2014).

Professional memberships:

  • Member of the American Association of Private International Law (ASADIP).
  • Member of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL).
  • Member of the Tatiana B. de Maekelt Law Institute
  • Member of the Young Scholars Network of the European Association of PIL (EAPIL).
  • Member of the Center for Studies of Private International Law and Comparative Law (CEDE), Venezuela.
  • Member of the Federal District Bar, Caracas, Venezuela.

Publications:

BOOKS:

-“El rol de la nacionalidad en el Derecho procesal civil internacional venezolano contemporáneo”. Master thesis, Caracas, U.C.V., 2015, pp. 483. Awarded the National Prize of the Academy of Political and Social Sciences to the best postgraduate dissertation of 2016-2017.

ARTICLES:

  • “Post-Brexit recognition theory in English Private International Law”. Independent Research Essay (UCL, 2018), p. 19. Distinction Awarded.
  • ___ y TAMBASCO, Anna María: “Introducción práctica a las instituciones de la teoría general del Derecho Internacional Privado en Materia Familar”. Derecho Familiar Internacional. Metodología para su Estudio. Libro Homenaje a Haydée Barrios. Medellín, Biblioteca Jurídica Diké, pp. 151-239.
  • “Reseña del Programa de la Academia de La Haya de Derecho Internacional 2010”. Derecho y Democracia, III. Caracas. Metropolitan University, 2011.