Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo
Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo is a Colombian lawyer from Universidad de los Andes, with graduate studies in Paris 2 in administrative law and political science. Highly interested in constitutional law, she followed a course about the constitutionalization of intern law and obtained herDiploma during the summer sessions of the Academie International de Droit Constituitionnel in Tunisia. She recently assisted Justice Cepeda drafting decisions on abstract judicial review and writs of protection of fundamental rights in Colombia’s Constitutional Court of Justice.
Since a young age she has been involved in organized civil society. At 12 she created a NGO with friends from different schools in Cali with the objectives of offering Christmas presents to street kids and building an effective social conscience in fellow members. At university, the initiative evolved from a charity perspective to a development one. Hence, she became more interested in studying law and public policies regarding CSOs than social work; her law school final dissertation was about Colombian State and NGOs legal interaction. Since, she has been invitedas a speaker of Third Sector law and theory in universities and governmental institutions; she was a consultant for the WB-FES-CCONG “Strengthening Organized Civil Society” forum; a co-author of the Colombian chapter in the “Marco Regulador de las Organizaciones de la Sociedad Civil en Sudamerica” published by IDB-UNDP and ICNL and the Academic Director of an interinstitutionalthink-tank for law and public policies for the Third Sector.Recently she held a workshop during the Civicus World Assembly in Botswana named “Beyond good intentions: towards the building of a solidarity organizations law.” She is currently researching for her Ph.d in compared public law, provisionally entitled “contractual and extra contractual collaboration between State and CSOs” and an independent legal consultantand attorney to diverse NPOs like co-ops, mutuals associations, NGOs and involved in law propositions and Congress studies regarding CSO lobbying; NGO control and regulation; Third (solidarity) sector legal framework; associated workers co-ops; as well as the modernization law for solidarity economy organizations.
Adriana Ruiz-Restrepo
Academic Director
Solidarity Law & Public Policies
Think Tank
CRA 3 #11-55
Bogota, Colombia
(57-1) 3412299 (phone)
Aruizrestrepo@rra-law-innovation.com