BIO as of April 2025.
HÉCTOR JOSÉ MIGUENS
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1958) Héctor is a Professor of Insolvency Law at the National University of Buenos Aires and (Extraordinary Professor) at the Universidad Austral, Argentina. He is Independent Researcher of the “CONICET” (“Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas”, National Scientific and Technological Research Council), Argentina, since 2007. 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 School of Law of the 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. He holds a Diploma on Legal Theory and Argumentation and another Diploma on Business Ethics and Compliance from the Austral University School of Law of Argentina. As Fellow of the School of Law of the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota, USA, he holds a Master in US Law, obtained in 2020.
Héctor has carried out extensive research in Insolvency, Corporate and Business Law since 1986. In 1997 he spent 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 is Fellow of the Institute of European and Comparative Law at the University of Oxford, since 2010; he has been Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School, Washington DC, 2013. Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies of the Queen Mary University, London, in 2015. 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 V (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 published extensively in the field of Comparative Insolvency Law, Business Law, Law on Corporate Groups and Business Ethics: more than 85 articles in international law journals, one book in Germany, three books in Argentina and authored in 29 collective books chapters published in Latin 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, (at the Max Planck Institute, Hamburg; at the International Institute of Insolvency Law of the University of Cologne, and at Institute of Commercial Law of the University of Bonn).
He is fond of Classical and Modern Music, Jazz, Opera, swimming and cycling. He enjoy playing drums.
Accesit Prize of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fellow of the School of Law, University of Navarra, Spain.
Fellow of the University of Oxford.
Fellow of Insol International, UK.
Fellow of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Law, Hamburg, Germany.
Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany.
Fellow of the School of Law of the St. Thomas University, Minnesota, USA.
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