Héctor José Miguens_BEF 2024

Biography
Prof. Héctor José Miguens National University of Buenos Aires Universidad Austral, Argentina
Biography: Héctor José Miguens, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1958) is a Professor of Insolvency Law at the National University of Buenos Aires and at (Extraordinary Professor) the Universidad Austral, Argentina. He is also an Independent Researcher of the “CONICET” (“Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas”, National Scientific and Technological Research Council), Argentina. He has been Professor of Insolvency Law since 1991, in several private and public Universities of Argentina, Spain and Colombia. Héctor received his Juris Doctor title from the National University of Buenos Aires in 1982 and the qualification of Specialist on Trustee in Bankruptcy from the School of Economics of the National University of Tucumán [Argentina] in 1989. He obtained his Ph.D. or J.S.D. (“Iuris Doctoris”) title with a Summa Cum Laude mark from the University of Navarra [Spain] in 1996. As Fellow of the School of Law of the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA, he holds a Master in US Law (2020). Héctor has carried out extensive research in Insolvency, Corporate and Business Law in the last 35 years. In 1997 he made a research stage at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, also in 1997. He was Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, 2010; also Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School [Washington DC, 2013], and the same at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of the Queen Mary University, London, in 2015. He was appointed Fellow of Insol International in the period 2008-2009, after an international competition. In 2013 and 2014 he has been appointed advisor at the UNCITRAL Conference, Working Group IV (Insolvency Law) in New York (Delegation of Argentina). Héctor has also been appointed as a Member of the Commercial Arbitration Court of the Public Bar Association of Buenos Aires in 2000 in Commercial Law matters. Since 1993 he is an honorary member of INSOL Europe. He has published extensively in the field of Comparative Insolvency Law, Business Law, Law on Corporate Groups and Business Ethics: more than 70 articles in international law journals, three books in Argentina and collaborated in 24 collective books chapters published in South America and Europe. He is Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law, Hamburg, Germany, and a Georg Forster Stipendium Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2003 in three occasions in different academic institutions in Germany, (in Hamburg, Cologne and Bonn).

Biography

Prof. Héctor José Miguens
National University of Buenos Aires
Universidad Austral, Argentina

Biography:
Héctor José Miguens, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1958) is a Professor of Insolvency Law at the National University of Buenos Aires and at (Extraordinary Professor) the Universidad Austral, Argentina. He is also an Independent Researcher of the “CONICET” (“Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas”, National Scientific and Technological Research Council), Argentina. He has been Professor of Insolvency Law since 1991, in several private and public Universities of Argentina, Spain and Colombia. Héctor received his Juris Doctor title from the National University of Buenos Aires in 1982 and the qualification of Specialist on Trustee in Bankruptcy from the School of Economics of the National University of Tucumán [Argentina] in 1989. He obtained his Ph.D. or J.S.D. (“Iuris Doctoris”) title with a Summa Cum Laude mark from the University of Navarra [Spain] in 1996. As Fellow of the School of Law of the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA, he holds a Master in US Law (2020). Héctor has carried out extensive research in Insolvency, Corporate and Business Law in the last 35 years. In 1997 he made a research stage at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also worked as a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, also in 1997. He was Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, 2010; also Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School [Washington DC, 2013], and the same at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of the Queen Mary University, London, in 2015. He was appointed Fellow of Insol International in the period 2008-2009, after an international competition. In 2013 and 2014 he has been appointed advisor at the UNCITRAL Conference, Working Group IV (Insolvency Law) in New York (Delegation of Argentina). Héctor has also been appointed as a Member of the Commercial Arbitration Court of the Public Bar Association of Buenos Aires in 2000 in Commercial Law matters. Since 1993 he is an honorary member of INSOL Europe. He has published extensively in the field of Comparative Insolvency Law, Business Law, Law on Corporate Groups and Business Ethics: more than 70 articles in international law journals, three books in Argentina and collaborated in 24 collective books chapters published in South America and Europe. He is Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law, Hamburg, Germany, and a Georg Forster Stipendium Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation since 2003 in three occasions in different academic institutions in Germany, (in Hamburg, Cologne and Bonn).