MCCS
Maria Cristina Chen Stanziola
Supreme Court of Justice of Panama
President of the Supreme Court
Biography
Doctor of Law from the Santa María La Antigua Catholic University, with Summa Cum Laude and first place of honor distinction. PhD in Administration, finance and Justice in the Social State from Salamanca University, with the highest cum laude qualification. Master's Degree in Commercial Law, at the Santa María La Antigua University; Master's Degree in Procedural Law from the Panama University; Specialist in Legal Advice of Companies, from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain; Specialist in Mediation from the Panama University; Specialist in Higher Education Latin University of Panama. Specialization in Constitutional Justice and Jurisdictional Protection of Rights, University of Pisa, Italy. Lawyer from the Panama Latina University, with first place of honor. Author of the works: The Procedural Protection of Human Rights in Panama. Factoring: A Financing Alternative for Companies and Fundamental Rights in the Information Society: A Proposal for their Protection in Panama. The constitutional judgments, contents, limits and scope regarding the protection of fundamental rights. Inter-American system: challenges and opportunities. Conventionality control theory: a paradigm shift. Constitutional justice and new interpretative canons.
Co-author of the work: New technologies in the Administration of Justice and Fundamental Rights and of several collective works, among which are: Topics of Computer Law I; Topics of Computer Law II; Contemporary Horizons of Constitutional Procedural Law, in Tribute to Dr. Néstor Pedro Sagüés, compiled by the Constitutional Court of Peru and the work in Tribute to Dr. José Castillo Larrañaga, with the article: Arguments for the Integral Renewal of Latin American Constitutional Law, compiled by the Autonomous University of Mexico, among many others. Member of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law; member of the Colombo Panamanian Institute of Procedural Law. Member of the National Bar Association of Panama. Justice of the Third Chamber of administrative and Labor Litigation of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama and Tenured Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Panama.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of Panama (2026-2027).
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