Professor José Ignacio Hernández G.
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Professor José Ignacio Hernández G.
Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello; Harvard Kennedy School
Profile
Dr. José Ignacio Hernández G. is a Venezuelan attorney, specialized in Administrative Law and Regulation.
José Ignacio earned his Ph.D. Cum Laude from the Complutense University. In Venezuela, he is a professor of Administrative Law at the Universidad Central de Venezuela and the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello. He has been visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Center. He is currently a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, researching the rule of law, state capability, and development.
He is also an invited professor of Global Administrative Law in the Castilla-La Mancha University (Spain), Comparative Constitutional and Administrative Law at the PCUMM (Dominican Republic), and Comparative Constitutional Law at the Tashkent University (Uzbekistan). He is a member of the Global Law study group at La Coruña University (Spain).
José Ignacio is a member of the International Administrative Law Association, the Ibero-American Forum of Administrative Law, and the Ibero-American Association of Economic Regulation. He has conducted several investigations about regulation, international investment arbitration, and Global Administrative Law.
José Ignacio is the author of more than 14 books on Administrative Law. Also, he has published more than 100 articles in Venezuela, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Italy, and the United States.
He was a partner at Grau, García, Hernández & Monaco in Venezuela (2006-2018), where he participated in several international investment arbitration cases. Between 2019 and 2020, he was the Venezuelan Special Attorney General, coordinating tens of international litigations and investment arbitrations. Currently, he is an independent consultant.