Celso Esteban
Arenas Vives
Lawyer within the Firm who provides his professional services with the responsibility and special attention to a variety of high-profile processes and complex cases that involve or are of criminal, civil, commercial and/or administrative nature.
Mgtr. Arenas Vives is a Public translator authorized by Resolution 8744 of November 27, 2013, in the languages English to Spanish and Spanish to English.
Academic background
His extensive academic training is supported by a Bachelor’s degree in Law and Political Science from the Universidad Santa María la Antigua (USMA), Master’s
degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law from the Instituto de Estudio e Investigación Jurídica (INEJ), Master’s degree in Procedural Law from the Universidad Interamericana de Panama (UIP), diploma of specialization in Business Law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia (Bogotá), Diploma in Constitutional Procedural Law at the Universidad Latina de Panama, specialization diploma in Criminal Procedural Law: The phases of the Accusatory Criminal Process by the Instituto Superior de la Judicatura de Panama, Doctor César Augusto Quintero Correa and the Penn State Law Legal English for Lawyers Program by the Pennsylvania State University and International English Certification Program for Lawyers by the Universidad Latina de Panama.
Social projection
Advisor and sharing with the members of the AIESEC in Panama through different spaces provided by AIESEC ALUMNI PANAMA, where he served as its President from 2018 to 2020.
In AIESEC, served as regional Vice-president of Legal and Financial, Administrative Affairs for Central America South (Costa Rica and Panama) of the International Association of Students in Economic and Commercial Sciences (AIESEC), where he obtain several leadership positions from the Local Committee USMA, represented the country in conferences held in Costa Rica, Chile and Russia.
Literary works
SPECIAL REGULATORY COMPENDIUM OF CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURAL LAW FOR THE PANAMANIAN ACCUSATORY CRIMINAL SYSTEM. Said Literary work is made up of three (3) volumes which are called:
oVOLUME 1: National Legislation of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedural Law (Editions 2020, 2021 and 2022)
oVOLUME 2: Complementary National Legislation of Fundamental Rights (Editions 2020 and 2021)
oVOLUME 3: International Legal Instruments Applicable to Criminal Proceedings (Editions 2020 and 2021)
COMPENDIUM OF PANAMANIAN STANDARDS FOR CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE – “KNOWING YOUR CLIENT” – LAWYERS (Editions 2020, 2021 and 2022)
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