Personal Information:
María Verónica Espina Molina is a Senior Partner at Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, where she joined in 1998. She specializes in Public and Regulatory Law, with a focus on free competition, environmental regulation, and public credit. She has advised companies and organizations on complex matters related to sectoral regulation, public procurement, and the defense of their rights and interests in response to government actions and omissions. She provides regulatory and litigation counsel in strategic sectors under rigorous legal frameworks.
She has international experience as a foreign associate at Holland & Knight LLP in New York (2001). She has been ranked for 18 consecutive years by Chambers Latin America for her outstanding Public Law practice.
Education:
• Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Law Degree, Cum Laude distinction, 1998.
• Harvard University, Master of Laws (LL.M.), 2001.
Academic activities:
• Professor of Administrative Law I, Universidad José María Vargas, 2002–2005.
• Professor of Administrative Law I, Universidad Metropolitana, 2005–2007.
Judicial activities:
Activities:
Publications:
•“Challenging Registry Acts in Administrative Litigation Jurisdiction, with Special Reference to the Public Registry”, in Law School Journal of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello No. 55, 1998.
• “The New Structure of the Venezuelan State” (Co-author), in Commentary on the Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 2001.
• “Women's Right to Non-Discrimination”, in Topics on Constitutional Rights, 2003.
• “Flag Burning as Symbolic Conduct Protected by the Right to Freedom of Expression”, in Legal Essays Celebrating 90 Years of Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, 2004.
• “The Exception of Unfulfilled Contracts Applied to Administrative Contracts”, in Public Law Journal No. 100, 1980–2005, Editorial Jurídica Venezolana, Caracas, 2005.
• “Commentary on the Possibility of Delegating Police Functions of Public Administration to Private Entities”, in Journal of the Faculty of Legal and Political Sciences, No. 128, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela, 2007.
• “The Principle of Progressivity of Human Rights”, in Public Law Journal No. 112, Studies on Constitutional Reform, October–December, Editorial Jurídica Venezolana, Caracas, 2007.
• “Affirmative Action in the Venezuelan Legal System as a Remedy for Discrimination Against Women”, in A Century of History and Law. 100 Years of Tinoco, Travieso, Planchart & Núñez, 2014.
Languages:
Spanish and English