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Gonzalo J. Monge

Principal Associate
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  • Biography

    Gonzalo J. Monge is an experienced constitutional lawyer, contentious-administrative and arbitration litigator and specialist in education regulation with more than 10 years of experience. He is known for representing clients in constitutional, administrative and arbitration proceedings. Clients recognize Gonzalo for his practice in educational regulation for universities, colleges, institutes and schools. He is also part of interdisciplinary teams specializing in energy, administrative, civil, corporate and public international law. He joined Estudio Echecopar as a pre-professional trainee in 2012, was promoted to Mid-level Associate in 2020 and has been a Principal Associate since 2024. Gonzalo completed his LLM at Harvard Law School as a Fulbright Scholar and worked as an international associate (ATP) in Baker McKenzie's New York office between 2022 and 2023.

    Practice Focus

    Gonzalo is an attorney specialized in constitutional law and human rights. He provides consulting and litigation services to clients, focusing on amparo proceedings against judicial decisions, amparos against awards or resolutions of annulment of awards, and self-application rules.

    He also represents clients in domestic and international arbitration proceedings that apply the laws of Peru and other jurisdictions, in particular the law of the State of New York (US).

    Gonzalo is committed to taking on pro bono cases. He provides advice and consultancy on legal entities’ matters and handles complex litigation before the Peruvian judiciary and the Constitutional Court of Peru.

    Gonzalo's experience in education regulation includes handling internal matters of legal entities and handling proceedings and formalities before the National Superintendency of Superior University Education (SUNEDU, for its acronym in Spanish), the Ministry of Education (MINEDU, for its acronym in Spanish), and public registries.

  • Experience

    • Represented, pro bono, a natural person in an amparo proceeding against judicial resolutions that declared him interdicted. Obtained for the client a judgment that applied for the first time the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
    • Represents the Committee for Economic Operations of the National Interconnected System (COES) in arbitration proceedings brought by members challenging the decisions of the board of directors on electricity matters, achieving satisfactory results for COES.
    • Advises a major energy company on avoiding contingencies in arbitration and litigation, as well as on energy issues (electricity and gas).
    • Sponsors a hydrocarbon sector company in “amparos societarios” initiated by its shareholders, seeking the non-application of resolutions of the General Shareholders' Meeting. In all concluded cases, successful reversal of injunctions and full dismissal of the claims.
    • Sponsored a state-owned private law firm in an amparo proceeding to recover the ownership of a highly valued real estate property, unduly confiscated by the Peruvian State.
    • Defended a professional association in an amparo proceeding against judicial resolutions. The opposing party had initiated an amparo vs. amparo process, which was also defended by the Firm, achieving a unanimous pronouncement by the Constitutional Court in favor of our client.
    • Sponsored HudBay Peru in a bilingual arbitration (Spanish and English) initiated by one of its former contractors in the Constancia Project (Cusco). The Arbitral Tribunal dismissed the claim of the counterparty, who was claiming more than USD 8 million.
    • Sponsored licensed universities in administrative procedures before SUNEDU and public registries.

  • Publications

    • Author, "Derechos económicos y ambientales: Propiedad, libertad de contratación, libertad de empresa, libre competencia, y ambiente," Colección de Derechos Fundamentales: Homenaje por el Bicentenario de la Independencia, Palestra Editores, 2022
    • Author, "El derecho fundamental a la educación superior universitaria en el Perú," Los Principios Rectores de las Naciones Unidas en el Perú (Carmen Velazco Ramos, editor), Palestra Editores, ESAN Ediciones, Tirant Lo Blanch, 2022
    • Author, "Tratamiento de los deberes constitucionales de la persona en el Perú: Una introducción," FORSETI — Revista de Derecho, no. 9, vol.12, 2021
    • Author, "Las universidades en el Perú: análisis constitucional y legal desde su condición de personas jurídicas," THĒMIS — Revista de Derecho, no. 72, 2017
    • Author, "Sobre el amparo contra resolución judicial: la importancia de adjuntar copia de la resolución impugnada," Diálogo con la Jurisprudencia, no. 231, December 2017
    • Author, "La represión de actos homogéneos en los procesos constitucionales," Gaceta Constitucional, vol. 129, September 2018
    • Co-author, "Derechos fundamentales y responsabilidad civil: apuntes constitucionales sobre la reparación del daño," La Responsabilidad Civil: From comparison to application (H. A. Campos Garcia and J. L. Gabriel Rivera, coordinators), Editorial Jurídica THĒMIS, 2018
    • Co-author, "La publicidad estatal como medio de tutela del derecho a la igualdad y no discriminación de los grupos en situación de vulnerabilidad," Gaceta Constitucional, vol. 132, December 2018
    • General Editor, THĒMIS — Revista de Derecho, no. 67, 2015, Edition for the 50th Anniversary of THĒMIS and dedicated to constitutional law as a central theme
    • Columnist/Regular Contributor, Agnitio, Asociación ADV Editores of the Universidad de Lima; Forseti, Universidad del Pacífico; Enfoque Derecho, Asociación Civil THĒMIS of the PUCP, among others

    • Education

    • Harvard Law School (LLM) (2022)
    • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Law Degree) (2016)
    • Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (Bachelor of Law) (2016)

    Admission

    • New York (2025) (certification pending)
    • Lima Bar Association, 2016

    Membership

    • Member, Lima Bar Association
    • Member, International Association of Constitutional Law
    • Member, Young International Council for Commercial Arbitration (Young ICCA)
    • Member, International Bar Association (IBA)
    • Member, Perspectiva Constitucional
    • Member, Constitucionalismo Crítico

  • Additional Information

    Experience

    • Principal associate at Estudio Echecopar, since 2024

    • Foreign associate (ATP) at Baker McKenzie's New York office, 2022-2023

    • Mid-level associate at Estudio Echecopar; 2020-2021, 2023-2024

    • Junior associate at Estudio Echecopar, 2016-2020

    • Legal trainee at Estudio Echecopar, 2012-201

    Additional information

    • Fulbright Scholar, 2021-2022, Fulbright Commission — J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board of the US Department of State

    Academic experience

    Gonzalo complements his professional practice with academic work at the Law School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú:

    • Adjunct Teaching Assistant, "Fundamental Rights and Constitutional Interpretation," taught by Professor César Landa, 2019-2020
    • Adjunto de Docencia, "Personas Jurídicas," taught by Professor Javier de Belaunde, 2017-2020
    • Adjunto de Docencia, "Derecho Procesal Constitucional," taught by Professor César Landa, 2016 to present.
    • Teaching Assistant, "Constitutional Procedural Law," taught by Professor César Landa, 2015
    • Teaching Assistant, "Constitutional Law II," taught by Professor Abraham Siles, 2013-2014
    • Research Assistant to Abraham Siles, 2011-2012