Conflicts in Argentine Mining Exploration: DU LLM Graduate and Professor Take Part in Presentation at Austral University

Leonardo Rodriguez, May 2008 LLM graduate and winner of the Outstanding Student of the Year Award in 2009, gave a presentation on "Conflict Issues in Argentine Mining Exploration," recently in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Leonardo's presentation was part of a larger program, "Use of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection: Legal and Economic Criteria to Solve Conflict Issues," that was organized at the Austral University School of Law in Buenos Aires.

DU Prof. Jan Laitos, an internationally respected expert on natural resources law and author of numerous books on natural resources, helped organize the event and presented as well. Prof. Laitos also serves as a trustee for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Following his graduation from DU, Leonardo returned to Buenos Aires and the law firm of Marval O'Farrell & Mairal.