Dante Figueroa
Phone: 202-274-1000
Dante Figueroa is a Chilean attorney, with LL.M. degrees from the Washington College of Law and the University of Chile Law School. He is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars. He practiced law Chile in the public sector, as a consultant for the Chilean government, and in private practice as the principal environmental lawyer of an international law firm. He has taught courses on international public law, maritime law, introduction to U.S. law and environmental law in Chile, and the Introduction to Latin American Law seminar at the Washington College of Law during the Spring semester 2004. His publications include articles on comparative legal matters between Latin American civil law and US common law, and two books, one on international arbitration and another on environmental law, the latter of which received an award from the Inter-American Bar Association. He is a veteran of eleven marathons, including the Boston marathon. He is currently a Legal Information Analyst at the Law Library of Congress. For more information contact him directly at: figueroa@wcl.american.edu.
