Javier Sánchez-Vera Gómez-Trelles

Javier Sánchez-Vera Gómez-Trelles is Professor of Criminal Law at the Complutense University of Madrid and a member of the Madrid Bar Association, with a silver medal for 25 years of practice. Prof. Sánchez-Vera’s specialised practice covers both business and corporate criminal law, as well as all other branches of criminal law, backed by his professorship and his in-depth knowledge of forensics and criminal procedural law. Prof. Sánchez-Vera holds a PhD in Law from the University of Bonn, and regularly publishes books and scientific articles, which present his proposals for solutions to today’s most problematic criminal issues, including both the legal theory of crime and also the inescapable fundamental procedural guarantees. These proposals would later be of pre-eminent application in his consultancies and trials; his monographic treatment on the presumption of innocence (Marcial Pons, 2012), has become a landmark work, as well as his theories on authorship and participation, etc. He has given numerous lectures and courses in Germany, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Spain, Italy, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Venezuela, among other countries. He has been an Academic Visitor at Oxford University.

His extensive experience before the courts covers all proceedings, all procedural stages and almost all offences under the Criminal Code, as well as extraditions, pardons and other proceedings. He has taken on megatrials in economic criminal law as well as demanding defences in crimes with high sentencing requirements in other areas of criminal law. He has been selected for years by the legal directories Chambers and Partners, Legal500 and Best Lawyers, having been highlighted, on occasions, as criminal lawyer of the year, being, in any case, among the most relevant lawyers in the speciality of Criminal Law in Spain.