A Dominican has been elected to integrate the Inter-American Juridical Committee of the Organization (CJI) of the Organization of American States (OAS), decision taken during the assembly number 52, held this Friday in Lima Peru.
Is about Julio Jose Rojas Baezwho will integrate the organization together with the Mexican Alejandro Alday González and the Brazilian George Rodrigo Bandeira.
The trio that will make up the committee will be for a period of four years, which begins on January 1, 2023 and ends on December 31, 2026.
A note from the Dominican Foreign Ministry indicates that Rojas Báez received the support of the Dominican Government “with the firm commitment to continue playing regional leadership regarding legal issues.”
“The Dominican Republic assumed the position of Rojas Báez before the multilateral organization, as a motivation for the strengthening of initiatives that seek to standardize the legislation of the countries of the continent in the face of the fundamental role of the global agenda that occupies legal security,” indicates the release.
Who is Julio Jose Rojas Baez?
Rojas Báez is a lawyer graduated from the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD)studied International Law at American University.
He worked as a lawyer at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights; For more than 18 years, he has been a professor at the universities of the Dominican Republic of Public International Law; he was secretary for more than 10 years of the Constitutional Court.
Currently, he is a candidate for Doctor of Law from the University of Castilla La Mancha, in Albacete, Spain; he was legal director of the Electricity Distribution Company of the South Region (Edesur); arbitrator of the Center for Dispute Resolution of the Chamber of Commerce and Production of Santo Domingo and Judicial interpreter of the Judiciary of the Dominican Republic.
Inter-American Juridical Committee
The Inter-American Juridical Committee (CJI) It is the advisory body of the OAS on legal matters, in charge of promoting the progressive development and codification of international law and studying the possibility of standardizing the legislation of the countries of the continent.
Other choices:
Similarly, Canadian Martin Rubenstein was elected to the OAS Audit Committee; the Chilean María Cecilia Cáceres will preside over the Administrative Tribunal; Nicolás Soler, from Argentina, and Cecilia Ilusión Barrios Ortega, from Guatemala, were elected to integrate the Justice Studies Center of the Americas.
