Adjunct Professor Luis Carlos Rodrigo Prado Participates in Roundtable Discussion About South American Law Practice for LatinLawyer Magazine

Luis Carlos Rodrigo Prado, partner at the law firm of Rodrigo, Elías & Medrano Abogados in Lima, Peru, recently participated in a round table discussion organized by LatinLawyer Magazine about the legal business in Peru. The participants in the round table talked about business trends in the legal profession in South America.

What Mr. Rodrigo had to say in the article reporting on the round table, "Pastures New" (December 2009 issue), was of particular interest not only because he is one of the world's leading mining lawyers but also because he has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.

In August 2009, Mr. Rodrigo teamed up with South American colleague Florencia Heredia, a well-known Argentine mining lawyer and a partner in HOLT Abogados in Buenos Aires, to teach "Comparative Latin American Mining Law." (The course, which was offered in a one-week "intensive" format, was exceptionally well received by students who benefited from learning from these two leading mining law practitioners. Click here to see a posting about the 2009 course.)

One of Mr. Rodrigo's observations was about the growing globalization of the mining business in South America generally and Peru in particular:

"[Our firm has] a lot of Chinese and Korean clients but for the first time we are seeing a flow of Indian clients. We kept hearing India was growing fast like China and looking at Latin America and we now are seeing that this year."

Students desiring to take "Comparative Latin American Mining Law" should be looking towards the summer 2011 schedule when Ms. Heredia and Mr. Rodrigo are very likely to be back in Denver to do a reprise of their timely and important course. There are a multitude of reasons to take the course including the fact that there are substantial investment opportunities in the natural resources sector all across South America, a topic that Ms. Heredia and Mr. Rodrigo will explain in greater context.

For more information about this course, please e-mail Don Smith or Lucy Daberkow.

Photo Collage of "Comparative Latin American Mining Law" Course

The short course, "Comparative Latin American Mining Law," has received a great deal of attention from the students in the course, other students at DU who were not able to take the course this time, as well as others outside the DU law school. I blogged about the course on the third and fifth days of the five day course, which was held Aug. 3-7.

To give you some idea of the engaging approach encouraged by Florencia Heredia and Luis Carlos Rodrigo, our adjunct professors from respectively Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lima, Peru, I've assembled a photo collage about the week. Click here to share some of the "flavor" of the course.

Meanwhile, here are just two pictures from the wonderful home cities of Ms. Heredia and Mr. Rodrigo. The top photo was taken in Buenos Aires in mid June 2008. The bottom photo was taken in late June 2008, looking south along the Pacific coastline of Lima. Both cities are among the world's most beautiful and interesting. You definitely should visit both. (And as a footnote, I did not even scratch the surface of everything these two great countries have to offer in terms of geography, culture, and history.) For those in the northern hemisphere it is worth remembering that June is "equivalent" weather-wise to what we experience in December.

On my trip to Latin America in June 2008 (when I first met Ms. Heredia and Mr. Rodrigo) the weather was a mix of sun and clouds/fog. It was not always sunny in Buenos Aires (as the picture might suggest) nor was it always cloudy in Lima.

Wonderful countries, friendly and perceptive people, two fascinating parts of the world to be sure.