Juan Ignacio Piña Rochefort

Practice Areas

White Collar Crime; Complex litigation; Administrative and Civil Liability Law.

Career

Founding Partner at BCP Abogados, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; PhD in Law, Universidad de Navarra, Spain. Her professional trajectory has been focus on leading diverse complex litigation cases in criminal, punitive administrative and civil liability law. He specializes in the development and implementation of crime prevention and corporate integrity strategies in companies.

In the public sector, he was President of the State Defense Council between 2014 and 2017. Previously, he was Undersecretary of Justice (2012-2'013) and interim Justice Minister of the Chilean Government (2013-2014). Furthermore, he was a delegate in Geneva to present in the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Human Rights in Chile to the United Nations in 2014. Also he was co-agent representing the State of Chile in the case against the Plurinational State of Bolivia before the International Court of Justice regarding the dispute related to the Silala River. In October 2014, he was the efense attorney for the Minister of the Interior and Public Security, Carolina Tohá, in the constitutional accusation presented by the Republican Party, which was rejected by the Chamber of Deputies of Chile.

Recognitions and Awards

-Ranked Lawyer, White Collar Crime, Chambers and Partners (Guides 2021-2025)

-Ranked Lawyer, The Legal 500, Leading Partners (Guides 2022-2024).

-Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for a research stay at the Seminar

Publications

He has diverse academic publications such as the following:

-"Criminal Law: Fundamentals of Responsibility (3rd ed.). Thomson Reuters Publishing. Third edition, 2023."

-"Criminal Law: Foundations of Liability (2nd ed.)," Thompson Reuters, Santiago de Chile, 2014.

-"Materials for Designing Prevention Models for Criminal Liability of Legal Entities," Abeledo Perrot, Santiago de Chile, 2012.

-"Criminal Law: Foundations of Liability," Abeledo Perrot, Santiago de Chile, 2010.

-"Social Role and Imputation System: A Sociological Approach to the Function of Criminal Law," Ara Editores, Lima, Peru, 2008 (Peruvian edition of doctoral work published in 2004 in Spain by Editorial Bosch, Barcelona).

-"Insurance Fraud: Criminal and Legislative Technical Issues (2nd Ed.)," Editorial Jurídica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, 2006.

-"Insurance Fraud: Criminal and Legislative Technical Issues," Ediciones de la Universidad de los Andes, Santiago de Chile, 2004.

-"Social Role and Imputation System: A Sociological Approach to the Function of Criminal Law," Bosch, Barcelona, 2004.

-"The Structure of the Theory of Crime in the Legal Framework of Common Law," Editorial Comares, Granada, 2002.

Experience

He has more than 20 years of academic experience at Chilean and foreign universities in graduate and undegraduate academic programs. Currently he is professor of Criminal Law at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Previously, he teachs in the following institutions:

-Professor of Criminal Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile (undergraduate).

-Professor of Fundamentals of Positive Law, Universidad de Los Andes.(undergraduate).

- Professor of the Doctoral Program in Law, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile and Universidad de Los Andes.

-Professor of the Master's Program in Criminal Law, Universidad de Chile, Universidad Diego Portales, Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso y Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile.

-Professor of the Diploma in Criminal Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Universidad Católica de Concepción and Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Chile.

Professor of the Course on Introduction to Anglo-American Criminal Law at the Garrigues Chair in Global Law, University of Navarra.

Professor of the Diploma in Modern Theory of Crime and Economic Criminal Law, Faculty of Law at the Externado University of Colombia."

Languages Spoken

Spanish, English, German.