Katherine Gálvez

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Senior Associate
kgalvez@dlapiper.pe

Professional Experience

Katherine has over 10 years of experience as a litigating attorney before the various Superior Courts of Justice in Peru, the Constitutional Court, and national arbitration centers. Her professional practice is related to providing counsel and defending conflicts of all kinds, participating in the design and execution of judicial, arbitral, or extrajudicial procedural solution strategies, and maintaining ongoing monitoring of these.

In the academic field, Katherine works as a professor in the undergraduate program at the Law Faculty of the University of Lima.

Credentials

Studies

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2018).
Master’s Degree in Procedural Law.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (2012).
Lawyer.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
Bachelor Degree in Law.

Specializations Studies

Universidad ESAN, Lima (2023).
Specialization Course on Arbitration in Public Procurement.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – Centro de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos, Lima (2021).
Specialization Course on Arbitration.
Instituto Palestra, Lima (2019).
Specialization Course in Legal Argumentation and the Constitutional State.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú – Centro de Análisis y Resolución de Conflictos, Lima (2018).
Negotiation Skills Workshop.
Universidad de Lima – (2017).
Specialization Course in Domestic and International Arbitration.
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima (2011).
Neo-constitutionalism and Cross-constitutionalism.

Areas of Focus

Civil Law.
Contentious-Administrative Law.
Constitutional Law.

Admissions

Peru.

Memberships

Lima Bar Association.
Asociación Civil Derecho y Sociedad (2010-2011).

Academic Experience

Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Universidad de Lima in the area of Procedural Law (2019 - to date).

Publications

“La caducidad y el abandono en los procesos arbitrales en los que interviene una entidad estatal” By Katherine Gálvez. Prometheo, December 2022.
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“El allanamiento en los procesos de divorcio remedio. Su procedencia en las causales de imposibilidad de hacer vida en común y separación de hecho” By Katherine Gálvez. Gaceta Civil & Procesal Civil N° 83, May 2020. pp. 127-142.
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“Proyecto de ley sobre ganancias mineras” By Katherine Gálvez. Derecho & Sociedad N. ° 35. 2010.pp. 80-83.
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“Nueva Ley Procesal del Trabajo”. By Katherine Gálvez. Derecho & Sociedad N. º 35. 2010.
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Events

“Remarks on the regulation of the Executive Process in the Peruvian Civil Procedure Code”, held by the Training and Quality Assurance Commission of the Magistracy of Piura, March 9, 2023.

Languages

Spanish.
English.
Italian.