Position

Academic Background

LL.B. at Universidad de Chile, 2006 (Summa Cum Laude). Mr. Awad studied a Master of General Law with a Major in Public Law and a Master in Economic Criminal Law, both at Universidad de Chile. LL.M. at Columbia University (2019), after which he was admitted to the N.Y. State Bar (2020). Postgraduate Diploma on Antitrust Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2021).

Professional Experience

Previous to founding BACS, he worked at Firm Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana (2009-2011). During his leave of absence from BCS, after completing an LL.M in Columbia University, he worked as a volunteer attorney in the Antitrust Division of the New York State Office of the Attorney General (2019) and as foreign associate at Holland & Knight, Miami (2020).

Academic Activities

He has taught Criminal Law to undergraduate students at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez and has been assistant teacher of Civil Law at Universidad de Chile. Currently he teaches in the Master of Law at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez.

Publications

Author of "Derecho Penal Internacional y principio de legalidad: el ir y venir de la mirada", Actas del Congreso Internacional de Derecho, 2011. Co-author of "Proceso Penal”, in Revista de Derecho de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Comentario de la Jurisprudencia de la Corte Suprema y el Tribunal Constitucional, 2013 and 2016. Co-author of “Justificación y presupuestos legales de una guía interna de la fiscalía nacional económica relativa a la interposición de querellas por el delito de colusión”, 2017. Author of "Prisión preventiva como sucedáneo de las penas privativas de libertad", Revista de Ciencias Penales, 2021. Author of "Poetics" in Research Handbook in Law and Literature, Elgar Press, 2022. Author of “El delito de incendio como delito común de peligro abstracto en contra de bienes jurídicos individuales”, Revista de Ciencias Penales, 2022.

Memberships

Colegio de Abogados de Chile A.G., Instituto de Ciencias Penales. Admitted to the N.Y. State Bar.

Languages

Spanish and English.