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.

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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-.

Dr. Jaime Ubilla has worked for 20 years in the development of a new reflexive and inclusive model of conservation and management of natural capital (Ubilla, 2003). This new model has finally been manifested in the design and drafting of the main and structural articles of Law 20,930 that creates this new property or real right (Ubilla 2015). This new real right is a new type of real right -affirmative and reflexive- that is held with respect to environmental intangibles -the attributes and functions of the environmental heritage-. This new real law model -which breaks with 2,500 years of legal history- leaves behind the traditional model of static conservation based on restrictions or levies and purely philanthropic models and tax benefits.

He is also the founder and director of the Chilean Conservation Law Center www.centro derechoconservacion.org and the Chilean Natural Capital Coalition, and actively cooperates with international organizations dedicated to the matter.

He is also the founder of the Conservation Right Foundation www.conservationright.org, for the promotion of the international adoption of the real right of conservation or ´conservation right´.

Dr. Jaime Ubilla is a partner at Ubilla y Cia Abogados www.ub-co.com. He is currently professor -Lecturer in Law- at the School of law of the University of California, at Davis.