About the Speaker: Pablo Julio Cáceres Corrales received his Law degree from Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 1968. He also holds a Ph.D. in History from the same institution, centering his research on global criminal organizations. He has practiced law for the past forty years, establishing a very successful career in the public sector where he served as President of the Colombian Supreme Court during the most violent period of the Drug War. He has also been a long-time Law Professor at Universidad Nacional de Colombia where he continues to teach at the present time, and he now has his own private practice in Bogotá. Dr. Cáceres is one of the leading scholars in Constitutional Law and has published extensively on the topic including Colombia: El Estado del Derecho, Crítica Constitucional: Del Estado Liberal a la Crisis del Estado Providencia, and El Constitucionalismo Bolivariano.