Juan Francisco Ortega Díaz
Professor of Law and Co-Director of Research Group of Competence Law and Intellectual Property Law, Los Andes Law School, Bogotá, Colombia
Juan Francisco Ortega Díaz specializes in contracts, intellectual property and cyberlaw. Currently Juan Francisco is Professor of Law at Los Andes Law School –Los Andes University- in Bogotá, Colombia. He is the author of several books about contracts, intellectual property and cyberlaw. His lastest research examines legal problems about digital signatures and corporative contracts. As a result, he published a book in December of 2011 titled “Contracts, notaries and digital signature. A harmonization proposal for Latin notaries”. He also directs the digital legal review “Revista de Derecho, Comunicaciones y nuevas tecnologías” (Law, Communications and New Technologies Review) (http://derechoytics.uniandes.edu.co)
In 2002 Juan Francisco obtained an Assistant Professor position and, in 2007, an Associate position at Salamanca University -Spain- where he has enjoyed a Ph.D Fellow (1998-2002). Focusing his research in the areas of Contract, Intellectual Property and Cyberlaw, Juan Francisco enjoyed a few important fellows (Fulbright Teaching Scholarship, 2005; Erasmus Teaching Scholarship 2006). In April of 2007, he was awarded with the European Award Charles V. Helmut Kohl Grants. Likewise, he spent a few semesters in several Europeans academic centers where he was called as invited professor (Iceland University, School of Law –Iceland-; Max Planck Institute (Munich, Germany). In the United States, he enjoyed several research stays at Harvard and Columbia University and Franklin Pierce Law Center. However, he has always felt a deep passion for Latin America where, as an invited professor, he has taught in more than ten universities.
Juan Francisco obtained a Law Degree, a Legal Research LLM and a Doctorate (PhD Special Award) at Salamanca University (2007), in Spain.
