{"id":157399,"date":"2025-05-23T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/ecarrasco\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:18:42","slug":"ecarrasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/ecarrasco\/","title":{"rendered":"Edesio Carrasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][uncode_block id=&#8221;157380&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;2&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;3&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;3&#8243; back_color=&#8221;color-lxmt&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; content_parallax=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;873766&#8243; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;963280&#8243; el_class=&#8221;twocol&#8221;]<strong>Awards and Recognition<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has been consistently ranked since 2017 in Chambers &amp; Partners, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and Leaders League.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Law, School of Law, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile (2006).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> LL.M., School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, USA (2010), Chilean Scholarship \u2013 Conicyt.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> S.J.D., Universitat de Barcelona, Spain (2024).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Activities and Memberships<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Lecturer and editor of Revista de Derecho Aplicado LLM UC at the School of Law, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile (2012\u2013present).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Graduate lecturer at the School of Law, Universidad del Desarrollo (2012\u2013present).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Visiting Scholar, School of Law, Duke University, North Carolina, USA (2023\u20132024).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Member of the Legal Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He is the author and co-author of more than fifty articles and publications in specialized journals and media. In addition, he has published the following books:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Judges as Environmental Regulators: How the Supreme Court Shaped the Environmental Assessment and Oversight (1994\u20132024) (Ediciones Der), 2025.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Urban Wetlands: Regulation, Implementation, and Jurisprudence (Ediciones Der), 2023.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Right to Live in a Pollution-Free Environment: Perspectives, Evolution, and Jurisprudential Standards (Ediciones DER), 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Environmental Impact Assessment System: Analysis and Resolution of Practical Cases (Ediciones DER), 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Legal Framework of Nuclear Energy in Chile (Thomson Reuter \u2013 Legal Publishing), 2013.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Languages<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Spanish and English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission<br \/>\n<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2007<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=&#8221;yes&#8221; row_height_percent=&#8221;0&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; h_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; top_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; bottom_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; back_color=&#8221;color-lxmt&#8221; overlay_alpha=&#8221;0&#8243; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; gutter_size=&#8221;0&#8243; column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; content_parallax=&#8221;0&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;915133&#8243; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;4&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;4&#8243; back_color=&#8221;color-lxmt&#8221; back_image=&#8221;156580&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;132112&#8243; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_empty_space empty_h=&#8221;5&#8243;][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; gutter_size=&#8221;3&#8243; override_padding=&#8221;yes&#8221; column_padding=&#8221;0&#8243; expand_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; back_image=&#8221;156581&#8243; overlay_alpha=&#8221;50&#8243; shift_x=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y=&#8221;0&#8243; shift_y_down=&#8221;0&#8243; z_index=&#8221;0&#8243; medium_width=&#8221;0&#8243; mobile_width=&#8221;0&#8243; width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;108740&#8243;][vc_empty_space empty_h=&#8221;5&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His practice primarily focuses on environmental matters and sectoral authorizations, energy, land use, and the development of industrial projects. He also concentrates on dispute resolution and defending his clients before ordinary and special courts in contentious-administrative matters.<\/p>\n<p>Before founding Carrasco Ben\u00edtez, he served as Regional Director of the Environmental Assessment Agency and Head of the Litigation Unit and Prosecutor for the same entity until early 2014. Previously, he worked at the Ministry of the Environment and at Allende Bascu\u00f1\u00e1n &#038; C\u00eda. Ltda.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, he worked as a foreign attorney in the energy group at Morgan Lewis &#038; Bockius LLP, in Washington D.C., United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-equipo-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157399"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157411,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157399\/revisions\/157411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}