Marco Morales Tobar

Practice Areas

Administrative Law, Labor Law, Political Risk Analysis, Compliance, Social Security.

Career

Founding partner of M&A, Dr. Marco Morales Tobar is a lawyer from the Central University of Ecuador and has over fifty years of experience practicing law. He has worked as a successful attorney with numerous cases in the defense of large public and private companies.

Passionate about Academy, he has been a teacher at the Central University of Ecuador, Simón Bolívar Andean University and Universidad San Francisco de Quito, among others. He has important publications and academic papers that are widely cited and regarded as must be references.

He has held public positions of the highest rank and importance. He served as a permanent ad hoc judge of the Supreme Court of Justice, magistrate, vice president, and president of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. He has also worked as a legislative advisor, permanent ad hoc judge of the District Court of Administrative Trial, General Manager of the Social Security Institute (IESS), and undersecretary of the Ministry of Social Welfare, among others.

Professional Memberships

International Association of Administrative Law (AIDA), Ibero-American Forum of Administrative Law (FIDA).

Publications

Dr. Marco Morales Tobar's line of research focuses on Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Social Security.

Publications:

- Administrative Control and Constitutional Justice - Manual of Administrative Procedural Law, 2011.

- The Amparo Action and its Procedure in Ecuador - Journal of the Center for Constitutional Studies.

- Human Rights, Constitution, and International Treaties - Journal of the Center for Constitutional Studies at the University of Talca.

- Constitutional Justice in Ecuador - National Publishing Corporation, 2002.

The publications of Dr. Marco Morales Tobar are in Spanish.

Personal

• Participation in the VII Ibero-American Congress of Constitutional Law (2003).

• Invited by the Department of State of the United States of America for the High Magistrates and Constitutional Law Specialists Program (Boston, Washington, and Reno) (2003).

• Member of the Legislative Commission of the National Congress that drafted the project for the Codification of the Mandatory Social Security Law (1998).

• Member of the Permanent Technical Committee of the OISS (1998).

• Vice President of the Legal and Social Affairs Commission of Latin America (1998).

• Member of the Legal Sub-Commission of the National Commission on the Law of the Sea (2009).

Languages Spoken

Spanish

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ecuador

Education

Work Highlights

From 2004 to the present: Partner at Morales & Asociados

2003-2004:Supreme Court of Justice

Permanent Alternate Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice.

Magistrate of the First Labor Chamber.

1996-2003:Constitutional Court of Ecuador

Magistrate, Vice President, and President.

1994-1996 and 1986-1988: National Congress of the Republic of Ecuador

Legislative Advisor.

1992-1994:Administrative Litigation District Court No. 1 - Quito.

Permanent Alternate Judge

1988-1991: Ecuadorian Social Security Institute

General Director of IESS