Antonia
Silva Lioi

Position
Academic Background
Universidad de Chile, Degree in Legal and Social Sciences, highest distinction (2022). Courses “Measures to prevent, punish and eradicate violence against women” (2024) and “Introduction to Feminist Theories” (2019), Universidad de Chile.
Professional Experience
Professor of the Department of Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (2025). Associate lawyer at the law firm Bofill Escobar Silva (2023- 2024). Attorney at the Bofill Escobar Silva law firm (2023). Professional Practice in the Economic Crimes team of the Santiago Poniente Local Public Prosecutor's Office (2023). Intern at the law firm Bofill Mir & Álvarez Jana (2019).
Academic Activities
Assistant to the Postgraduate Diploma in Women and Criminal Justice (2023), two cycles of Criminal Law and elective courses in the area (2019-), the chair of Oral Litigation in Criminal Matters (2021-2024) and the chair of Introduction to Law (2017-2021) at the Universidad de Chile. Assistant to the chair of Legal Reasoning at the Adolfo Ibáñez University (2021). Collaborator in the Journal of Criminal Sciences of the Institute of Criminal Sciences (2019-). Tesista, Fondecyt Regular Project No. 1200235 “Chance, Control, and Responsibility. An Investigation on the Criminal Relevance of Moral Luck” (2020-2021) and Research Assistant, in Fondecyt Initiation Project No. 11180839 “Poverty, Legality, and Punishment” (2019-2020).
Publications
Author of “Jurisprudential Trends Art. 318 of the Criminal Code: Competence of ordinary courts to control the constitutionality of legal norms” in Journal of Criminal Sciences, XLVIII (1), 329-332, 2022. Co-author of “Jurisprudential trends Art. 318 of the Criminal Code: Nature of the danger posed by the crime of paragraph 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code” in Journal of Criminal Sciences, XLVIII (1), 337-348, 2022; and “Criminal law, citizen security, and media: the case of the Chilean social outbreak” in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, XI (2), 171-190, 2021.
Memberships
Recognitions
Professor Juan Bustos Ramírez Award (2023), Morales & Besa Law Firm Award (2022), Universidad de Chile Law School Award (2022) and Legal Editorial Award (2017), all awarded by the Universidad de Chile.
Languages
Spanish and English.
asilva@bacs.cl