Ariel S. Liniado is a lawyer, graduated with honors with a specialization in Criminal law from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. He has an extensive academic background, including a master’s degree in Criminal law from the University of San Andrés (thesis in progress) and several stays abroad that allowed him to attend the Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium; the René Cassin Foundation, in Strasbourg, France; the University of Würzburg, Germany, in the framework of the “Summer School in Medical Criminal Law” and the University of Alabama, in Tuscaloosa, United States of America.

Regarding his professional development, he has experience in the public as well as in the private sector. He worked in the Judiciary Branch of the Nation and in different firms specialized in economic and corporate criminal law.

He has also worked as an adjunct professor of Criminal law I at the Higher Institute of Public Safety and as a professor in different courses given at the University of Buenos Aires. He has participated in the UBACyT research projects: “Criminal law and theory of freedom. A research on the work of Michael Pawlik and its dogmatic consequences” and “Problematic assumptions of exculpatory state of necessity” in charge of Prof. Dr. Marcelo Lerman. 

He is a founding member of Pastor, Villanueva & Liniado Law Firm.

Languages: Spanish, English, and French 

Membership: He is a member of the Bar Association of the Federal Capital, the Bar Association of Avellaneda – Lanus and the Bar Association of San Martín.