page_title: Flavio Dario Espinal
section_title: Academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Flavio Dario Espinal / Academic career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Flavio Darío Espinal ante la Comisión Interamericana de los Derechos Humanos (CIDH) en Washington DC
context_page_description: Flavio Darío Espinal is a Dominican jurist, political scientist, diplomat and academic. He was the legal advisor to the President of the Dominican Republic from 2016 to 2020.
  He previously served as ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States between 1997 and 2000 and to the government of the United States of America between 2004 and 2009.
  He has been a representative of the Dominican State before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, as well as in international litigations and arbitrations.
context_section_description: Dr. Espinal was the Founding Director of the University Center for Political and Social Studies (CUEPS), Founding Director of the Center for the Study, Prevention and Resolution of Conflicts (CEPREC) and Director of the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra (PUCMM).
  He is a professor of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Public International Law. His book Constitutionalism and Political Processes in the Dominican Republic received the "Pedro Henríquez Ureña" Annual Essay Prize.
  He has published numerous articles and essays on constitutional and political issues in different academic bodies of the country and abroad, as well as being a lecturer on issues of constitutional law, political systems, and international relations.
  Espinal is a founding member of the Institutional and Justice Foundation, Inc. (FINJUS).
caption: Flavio Darío Espinal in November 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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