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Giovanni Priori
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giovanni.priori@perezllorca.com
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Profile
He speaks Spanish, English and Italian.
Experience
He has over 25 years of experience in managing complex disputes of various natures, especially in his role as defense counsel. His academic profile allows him to be consulted to issue independent legal opinions in various judicial and arbitration proceedings. He has been a member of several legislative commissions, including those for the Administrative Litigation Process Law, the Labor Procedural Law, and the reform of the cassation appeal. Likewise, he served as president of the Working Group for the reform of the Peruvian Civil Procedural Code. He has been a member of the Consumer Protection Commission of the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI), as well as the Tribunal of the National Supervisory Commission for Companies and Securities (now, the Superintendency of the Securities Market). He participated as amicus curiae before the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru in the Eighth Cassation Plenary Decision and served as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the enforcement of judgments in Peru. He also has a track record as a partner in local firms and is an arbitrator in institutions such as the CCL, PUCP, and AmCham.
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
He is a full professor at the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and coordinates its Justice System, Dispute Resolution, and Procedural Law Area. He is also Secretary General of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law and a member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law. He is a member of the Group for the Harmonization of Law in Latin America, having participated in the preparation of the Model Code on Obligations for Latin America. He is a full member of the Academia Peruana de Derecho. He has served as a visiting professor and lecturer at various universities in Latin America, Spain, and Italy.
He has an extensive academic record, including numerous articles published in Latin America and Europe in Spanish, Italian, and English, as well as six specialized books on procedural law and contributions to numerous collective works.
Among his most recent publications is El proceso en el Estado constitucional (The Process in the Constitutional State) (Palestra, Lima, 2025). He is also the author of “The Flexibility of Procedural Rules as a Way of Ensuring Access to Justice” (International Journal of Procedural Law, Vol. 1, 2023); Los desafíos de la tutela jurisdiccional colectiva en el Perú (The Challenges of Collective Judicial Protection in Peru), included in Los procesos colectivos en debate (Collective Proceedings Under Debate) (Palestra, Lima, 2024); La tutela giurisdizionale dei diritti in America Latina: tra differenziazione e flesibilità, published in Judicium. Il processo civile in Italia e in Europa (2024).
He has also contributed chapters to international and national collective books, including “Constitutional Procedure as an Element of Identification of Latin American Procedural Law”, in CARPES, Arthur; JOBIM, Marco et al., Ensaios para Daniel Mitidiero (Thoth, Londrina, 2024); Communication in Multicultural Procedures: The Latin-American Approach, in Procedural Law in Multicultural Contexts (Orebro Studies in Law 21, 2025); Chronicle of How a Professor Who Wanted to Become a Writer Incorporated Theater to Change the Way Law Was Taught and Finally Became a Writer, in Art, Learning, and Art. A Festschrift in Honor of Alfredo Bullard (Palestra, Lima, 2025); and A Critique of the Treatment of Illegally Obtained Evidence as an Absolute Rule of Exclusion in Civil Proceedings, in New Challenges in Evidence Law (Bosch, Barcelona, 2025).
He has also contributed to the Max Planck Institute’s Comparative Procedural Law and Justice Project with the work “Allocation of Cases Based on Case Type and Amount-In-Controversy”, published in B. Hess, M. Woo, L. Cadiet, S. Menétrey, and E. Vallines García (eds.), Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (Part V, Chapter 3), Luxembourg, 2024.
Professional Organisations
Awards and recognitions
giovanni.priori@perezllorca.com
T: +51 1 610 4481
Av. José Larco 1301, Miraflores
15074 Lima
Profile
He speaks Spanish, English and Italian.
Experience
He has over 25 years of experience in managing complex disputes of various natures, especially in his role as defense counsel. His academic profile allows him to be consulted to issue independent legal opinions in various judicial and arbitration proceedings. He has been a member of several legislative commissions, including those for the Administrative Litigation Process Law, the Labor Procedural Law, and the reform of the cassation appeal. Likewise, he served as president of the Working Group for the reform of the Peruvian Civil Procedural Code. He has been a member of the Consumer Protection Commission of the National Institute for the Defense of Competition and the Protection of Intellectual Property (INDECOPI), as well as the Tribunal of the National Supervisory Commission for Companies and Securities (now, the Superintendency of the Securities Market). He participated as amicus curiae before the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of Peru in the Eighth Cassation Plenary Decision and served as an expert witness before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the enforcement of judgments in Peru. He also has a track record as a partner in local firms and is an arbitrator in institutions such as the CCL, PUCP, and AmCham.
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
He is a full professor at the Faculty of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP) and coordinates its Justice System, Dispute Resolution, and Procedural Law Area. He is also Secretary General of the Ibero-American Institute of Procedural Law and a member of the Council of the International Association of Procedural Law. He is a member of the Group for the Harmonization of Law in Latin America, having participated in the preparation of the Model Code on Obligations for Latin America. He is a full member of the Academia Peruana de Derecho. He has served as a visiting professor and lecturer at various universities in Latin America, Spain, and Italy.
He has an extensive academic record, including numerous articles published in Latin America and Europe in Spanish, Italian, and English, as well as six specialized books on procedural law and contributions to numerous collective works.
Among his most recent publications is El proceso en el Estado constitucional (The Process in the Constitutional State) (Palestra, Lima, 2025). He is also the author of “The Flexibility of Procedural Rules as a Way of Ensuring Access to Justice” (International Journal of Procedural Law, Vol. 1, 2023); Los desafíos de la tutela jurisdiccional colectiva en el Perú (The Challenges of Collective Judicial Protection in Peru), included in Los procesos colectivos en debate (Collective Proceedings Under Debate) (Palestra, Lima, 2024); La tutela giurisdizionale dei diritti in America Latina: tra differenziazione e flesibilità, published in Judicium. Il processo civile in Italia e in Europa (2024).
He has also contributed chapters to international and national collective books, including “Constitutional Procedure as an Element of Identification of Latin American Procedural Law”, in CARPES, Arthur; JOBIM, Marco et al., Ensaios para Daniel Mitidiero (Thoth, Londrina, 2024); Communication in Multicultural Procedures: The Latin-American Approach, in Procedural Law in Multicultural Contexts (Orebro Studies in Law 21, 2025); Chronicle of How a Professor Who Wanted to Become a Writer Incorporated Theater to Change the Way Law Was Taught and Finally Became a Writer, in Art, Learning, and Art. A Festschrift in Honor of Alfredo Bullard (Palestra, Lima, 2025); and A Critique of the Treatment of Illegally Obtained Evidence as an Absolute Rule of Exclusion in Civil Proceedings, in New Challenges in Evidence Law (Bosch, Barcelona, 2025).
He has also contributed to the Max Planck Institute’s Comparative Procedural Law and Justice Project with the work “Allocation of Cases Based on Case Type and Amount-In-Controversy”, published in B. Hess, M. Woo, L. Cadiet, S. Menétrey, and E. Vallines García (eds.), Comparative Procedural Law and Justice (Part V, Chapter 3), Luxembourg, 2024.
Professional Organisations
Awards and recognitions
giovanni.priori@perezllorca.com
T: +51 1 610 4481
Av. José Larco 1301, Miraflores
15074 Lima