{"id":157416,"date":"2025-05-23T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/rbenitez\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:33:11","slug":"rbenitez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carrascobenitez.cl\/en\/rbenitez\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodrigo Ben\u00edtez"},"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;123190&#8243; back_color_type=&#8221;uncode-palette&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;828139&#8243; el_class=&#8221;twocol&#8221;]<strong>Awards and Recognition<\/strong><br \/>\nHe has been consistently ranked since 2016 in Chambers &amp; Partners, Best Lawyers, and Leaders League.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Education<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Law, School of Law, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile (2005).<\/li>\n<li>Diploma in Environmental Law, Universidad Cat\u00f3lica de Chile (2006).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Activities and Memberships<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has been a lecturer of environmental law at Universidad Cat\u00f3lica School of Law ((2013).<\/li>\n<li>He has been a lecturer in the Master&#8217;s in Environmental Law at Universidad Finis Terrae (2021).<\/li>\n<li>He is a member of the Legal Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Environmental assessment and climate change: Criteria for its proper determination within projects or activities subject to the Environmental Impact Assessment System, in Revista de Derecho Ambiental, No. 13, Universidad de Chile, 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Criteria for determining the compatibility between the invalidation power and administrative and judicial remedies according to the provisions of the final paragraph of Article 17 No. 8 of Law No. 20.600, in Revista de Derecho Ambiental No. 8, Universidad de Chile, 2017.<\/li>\n<li>The invalidation power of environmental administrative acts, in Revista de Derecho, Second Era, Year II, No. 2, Ediciones Universidad Finis Terrae, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Legal nature and powers of the ministers\u2019 committee, in Revista Actualidad Jur\u00eddica No. 30, Universidad del Desarrollo, 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Judicial trends in energy projects: Balance and Projections, Actas de Derecho de la Energ\u00eda No. 2, Legal Publishing, 2012.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Languages<\/strong><br \/>\nSpanish and English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Admission<\/strong><br \/>\n2006[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=&#8221;yes&#8221; 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