JOSÉ FRANCISCO GARCÍA G. Associate.

José Francisco leads the regulated industries practice at Morales & Besa, concentrating his practice in different regulatory affairs (public utilities and administrative law in general). He has advised our clients in public works concessions and infrastructure, urban and zoning regulation, telecommunications, local government law, concessions, permits and other administrative authorizations, construction contracts, EPC, EPC-M and PPAs. He has a broad experience in constitutional law and in the design of regulatory frameworks and public agencies.

Additionally, he advises our clients in antitrust matters, especially regarding compliance policies, as well as consumer’s law.

Prior to joining our firm, he was the Director of the Justice Program at the think tank Libertad y Desarrollo, and then a full time Professor at Universidad del Desarrollo Law School, focusing his research in constitutional law, regulatory law and law and economics.

He is a member of the Bar Association, the Chilean Association of Constitutional Law and the Latin American and Caribbean Association of Law and Economics (ALACDE).

Education
Mr. García graduated in 2002 and obtained a Master in Public Law in 2011, both from the Law School of Universidad Católica de Chile. He was admitted to practice in 2003. In 2004, he obtained a graduate degree in “Economics and Finance for Attorneys” from the Economics Department of Universidad de Chile. In 2006 he graduated as an LL.M. and in 2010 as a JSD (PhD in Law), both from the University of Chicago Law School.

Academic activities
He is Professor of Constitutional Law (since 2005) and Law and Economics (since 2009) at P. Universidad Católica de Chile and of Constitutional Law at Universidad del Desarrollo. At the postgraduate level, he is professor at the Exectuive LL.M and Master in Bussiness Law (Concepción) at Universidad del Desarrollo, and teaches at the Public Economic Law Diploma of Universidad de Chile.

Publications
He has authored several publications in Chilean law reviews. Among others: “The Constitutional Court and the use of Standards: A necessary methodology for strengthening Economic Judicial Review”, Revista Chilena de Derecho (PUC), Vol. 38, Nº 1, 2011; “The compatibility between the right to freedom of contract with the legislative power to establish salaries” (with A. Fermandois), Revista Chilena de Derecho (PUC), Vol. 37, Nº 2, 2010; “From Supertintendency to Indepent Agencies: Constitutional and regulatory design questions” (with S. Verdugo), Actualidad Jurídica (UDD), Vol. 22, 2010; “Standards for improving the judicial review of economic regulations” Actualidad Jurídica (UDD), Vol. 21, 2010; and “The origins of Chilean presidential regime : the 1970 constitutional amendment, essential purpose of a bill and the executive exclusive legislative initiative” (with A. Fermandois), Revista Chilena de Derecho Vol. 36, Nº 22, 2009.

Languages
Spanish and English