Andrés Cervantes is a Partner at Apolo Abogados, leading the firm’s public law department. His practice focuses on consulting and litigation in constitutional law, administrative law, and tax litigation.
He holds a degree in Law from Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo (2015). Additionally, he has a Master’s in Advanced Legal Studies from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2016) and a Master’s in Constitutional Law from the University of Valencia in Spain (2018). He also earned a PhD in Constitutional Law from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2020). Recently, he completed a Master’s in Tax Law from Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar (2023).
Andrés is a member of the Ecuadorian Institute of Procedural Law (IEDP), the Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law (IIDC), the Association of Constitutionalists of Spain, and the International Society of Public Law (ICON.S). He is also affiliated with the Spanish Arbitration Club and the Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA).
In academia, he is a regular professor of general theory of the process at Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ) and teaches the subject of State and Constitution in the Constitutional Law Master’s program at UEES.
He has authored several academic contributions, including an article on amnesties in international law for the Oxford University Comparative Constitutional Law Encyclopedia (2019), and the book The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and Transitional Justice, published in the constitutional law series by Editorial Porrúa in Mexico (2021).
Private Sector
- Partner at Apolo Abogados
- Teaching Experience:
- Professor of General Theory of Procedure, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
- Professor of State and Constitution, Universidad Espíritu Santo
Degrees and Education
- Attorney at Law of the Courts and Tribunals of the Republic, UEES, 2015
- Master in Advanced Legal Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, 2016
- Master in Constitutional Law, University of Valencia, Spain, 2018
- Doctor of Law (PhD) with honors (cum laude), Pompeu Fabra University, Spain, 2020.
Distinctions
- Academic Merit Award from Universidad de Especialidades Espíritu Santo, June 26, 2015, for the thesis: “Annulment of Arbitral Awards Due to Non-Arbitrable Subject Matter, Violation of Due Process, and Manifest Legal Incompatibility”
- Research Training Grant for Junior Researchers 2017, awarded by the Agency for University and Research Grants of the Generalitat of Catalonia and the European Social Fund
- Research and Teaching Mobility Grant to the University of Cape Town (South Africa), awarded by Erasmus+ of the European Commission and the Alliance of 4 Universities, May 2019
- Doctoral thesis graded Outstanding with honors (cum laude) unanimously
- Runner-up in the Global Jurist 2020 competition for the essay: “The Need for Dialogue Between Constitutional Justice and Investment Arbitration”, organized by Revista Con-texto and various universities across Latin America and Europe
- Memberships
- Spanish Arbitration Club
- Association of Constitutional Law Scholars of Spain
- Ibero-American Institute of Constitutional Law (IIDC)
- International Society of Public Law (ICON.S)
- Swiss Arbitration Association (ASA)
- International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL)
- Ecuadorian Institute of Procedural Law
- Selected Publications
- Cervantes Valarezo, Andrés. La Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos y la Justicia Transicional. Editorial Porrúa, Constitutional Procedural Law Series, Mexico, 2021
- Cervantes Valarezo, Andrés. “Chapter III: Judicial and Constitutional Control of Arbitration in the 2008 Ecuadorian Constitution.” In Córdova Vinueza, Paúl (Director and Academic Coordinator). Las Garantías Jurisdiccionales en Ecuador. Estudios Críticos y Procesales. Corporación de Estudios y Publicaciones – UIDE, Quito, 2021, pp. 59–99
- Cervantes Valarezo, Andrés and Mier Galera, David. “Populism and Indefinite Reelection in Latin America: Perspectives from the Inter-American Human Rights System.” In Saiz Arnaiz, Alejandro (Director). Impact and Challenges at the Half-Century Mark of the American Convention on Human Rights. Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales, Madrid, 2021, pp. 353–378
- Cervantes Valarezo, Andrés. “Limits to Ex Officio Evidence in the COGEP.” In Cervantes Valarezo, Andrés (Coordinator). La Actividad Probatoria en el Proceso. Editorial Cevallos, Quito, 2022, pp. 51–92