The Conservation Law Center is an organization dedicated to provide support in the area of conservation of biodiversity in Chile and other countries of South America
The Conservation Law Center brings together the first academic researchers and legal practitioners of conservation law in Chile dedicated, among others, to the research of legal structures for the conservation of biodiversity, since 1994, and members of the Global Environmental Law Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The main research activities of the Center are related to the way of structuring links among the public and private conservation and the efforts of diverse social sectors and organizations.
In 2003, our Center proposed a new institution of continental private law, which was denominated the ´conservation property right´ or ´derecho real de conservación´, and later in the corresponding legislative process the Center contributed the definitive drafting of the main articles of Law No20.930 enacted in 2016
One of the goals of the Center is to promote the correct understanding of this institution avoiding, on one hand, implementations which contradict its theorical and practical bases, and on the other, avoiding assimilations to other institutions of compared law of a different nature.
All this is carried out in the context of academic research that covers and includes: Philosophy and Legal Theory, Social Theory, Political Theory, Private and Public Law.
However, the work of the Center also extends to practical advice to organizations of a diverse nature, including among others the Chilean Environmental Authority in Chile, the National Forestry Commission (the National Conservation Agency – CONAF), Fundación Kennedy, Fundación Buenas Raíces, Fundación Llampangui, Fundación AMA, Sociedad Agrícola El Tangue and several conservation organizations.
The Center has been founded upon the conviction that the right understanding and implementation of legal strategies can make the difference as to their social, environmental and economic sustainability.
Our Center provides advice to diverse organizations for the implementation of the ´conservation right´, not only with respect to traditional conservation projects but also with respect to initiatives for the conservation of biodiversity or ecosystems that are related to other economic activities, including productive ones.
Investigación
Conservation Standards´ for the Implementation of the Conservation Right
Institutional Analysis of the Conservation Right
Regulatory Models in General.
Regulatory Models - Relationship of Public Law and Private Law.
Private Law, Property Rights and In Rem Rights.
Biodiversity Conservation and Other Public Policies.
Global Environmental Law
Constitutional Law of the Environment and Biodiversity
Noticias
El Centro de Derecho de Conservación provee apoyo y asesorías en los siguientes ámbitos:
OUTSTANDING
President Michelle Bachelet promulgates the law that establishes the Real Right of Conservation
The conservation right implies a new paradigm, an innovation of 2,500 years of legal tradition, not only because it allows to delineate and manage ecological intangibles, but because it is an affirmative and reflexive property right -in contrast to traditional restrictions or easements-
Our director, Dr. Jaime Ubilla, who proposed the real conservation right and drafted the main articles of Law 20,930, together with President Michelle Bachelet, on the day of the promulgation of this law, on June 10, 2016 in Valdivia Chile .
Our director, Dr. Jaime Ubilla, together with senators Alfonso de Urresti and Antonio Horvath, with whom he closely cooperated in the legislative commissions, on the day of the approval of the Project for the Establishment of the Real Right of Conservation, in the Third Legislative Procedure in Congress National, May 31, 2016.
Legal Team
Jaime Ubilla (PhD)
Director
Dr. Jaime Ubilla, is a lawyer, legislative advisor and professor of law, focused on legal sociology, property rights and new post-modern strategies of regulatory change –with special emphasis on biodiversity law-. He is a Member of the World Environmental Law Commission of the IUCN.
Alfredo Nebreda Le Roy
Director
Alfredo Nebreda has vast experience on the areas of environmental law and regulatory law.
In addition, he has been an active advisor in legislative matters, at the national congress as well as at the provincial level.
Felipe Bañados
Director
Felipe Bañados is a lawyer and an environmental and social impact consultant, coordinator and developer of complex projects, expert in participatory processes.
Anibal Baeza Prieto
Director
Anibal Baeza is a lawyer and has vast experience in the areas of environmental law, conservation and territorial planning.
He is also director of various companies in the fields of innovation and positive social impact and Special Consultant on matters of sustainability and evaluation of natural capital.
Bárbara Callejas
Associated Lawyer
Bárbara has experience in socio-cultural aspects of environmental conservation projects, including aspects relating to art, music and other cultural intangibles that are associated to different forms of life that are linked to nature.
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