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Melissa Sosa
Special Counsel
Office: Santo Domingo
Phone: 809.255.0980
E: msosa@drlawyer.com

Main Practice Areas

Administrative, criminal, civil and constitutional litigation

Commercial litigation

Administrative Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

Languages

Spanish

English

French

Italian

Professional Profile

  • Represented national and foreign companies, hotels and foreign investors in the installation of their business in the Dominican Republic, structuring their operations and management of its daily operations.
  • Assisted foreign companies, individual clients and international non-profit entities in administrative litigation proceedings.
  • Created jurisprudential precedents in terms of Writ procedures, Amparo, as well as free access to public information and respect for the rights to legal security.
  • Professor of Criminal Procedure and Administrative Law at the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra
  • Former Professor of Commercial Law at the Universidad Iberoamericana.

Publications

  • “Deber del Estado de protección de datos personales de los ciudadanos como forma de respetar el derecho a la honra y la dignidad de las personas”, Gaceta Judicial, 2010.
  • “Las nulidades en el proceso penal dominicano”, Universidad de Salamanca, España, 2010.
  • “Régimen jurídico de los servidores públicos en la República Dominicana conforme a la Ley núm. 41-08 sobre Función Pública”. Gaceta Judicial, 2010.
  • “Ineficacia del amparo en la República Dominicana”, Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, 2009.
  • “El libre acceso a la información pública como vía hacia la participación y el control del ciudadano sobre la función administrativa”, Gaceta Judicial, 2009.
  • “Apuntes generales sobre el amparo y su perspectiva en República Dominicana”, 2008.
  • Co-autoría: “Veinte Años de Impunidad: Investigación de Casos de Corrupción en la Justicia Dominicana -1983- 2003”, 2004.

Education

  • Universidad de Salamanca, LL. M. in Administrative Law, 2009.
  • Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, LL. M. in Criminal Procedures Law, 2008.
  • Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), LL.M. in Commercial Law, “Mention très bien”, France, 2003.
  • Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo, LL. B., magna cum laude, 2001.

Recognitions and Memberships

  • Member of the Dominican Bar Association
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