Luis Daniel Mantilla Arango

Criminal Law & Criminal Cassation

Attorney specializing in Constitutional Law and Criminal Law, holding a Master’s Degree (LL.M.) in International Criminal Law from the University of Sussex. His practice focuses on strategic criminal litigation, criminal cassation, and managing complex substantive and procedural legal matters.
He brings distinguished experience in structuring extraordinary petitions (recursos extraordinarios), special appeals (impugnaciones especiales), and comprehensive procedural strategies, as well as in litigation involving gender-based violence and representing legally and constitutionally privileged officials (aforados). His profile combines technical criminal litigation expertise with a deep understanding of jurisprudential developments and contemporary judicial protection standards.
He served as an auxiliary justice (magistrado auxiliar) in both the Criminal Cassation Chamber and the Special Instruction Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice, participating in the drafting of numerous cassation decisions, appellate rulings, and special appeals. In academia, he has served as a professor in undergraduate and specialized postgraduate programs at Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, teaching courses in criminal law, procedural law, and extraordinary remedies. His professional background reinforces the firm’s capacity to design and execute complex criminal litigation, with a strong focus on criminal cassation and procedural strategy.

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