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Provided by Edesio Carrasco
Partner in charge of the Public and Natural Resources Group. His practice focuses mainly in environment and sectorial permits, energy, land use planning, and the development of industrial projects. He also advises his clients in the solution of their controversies and their defense before ordinary and special courts in administrative matters.
Prior to founding Carrasco Benítez he was Regional Director of the Environmental Assessment Agency and the Chief of the Litigation and Legal Department of the same agency until early 2014. Before that, he worked in the Ministry of the Environment and in Allende Bascuñán y Cía. Ltda.
In 2010 he was a foreign lawyer at the Energy Group of Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP, in Washington D.C., USA.
Admission
Chile (2007).
Education
Graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School in 2006. In 2009 he was awarded the Chilean–CONICYT Scholarship and in 2010 got a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of California, Berkeley, with a specialization in Environmental Law. He has also a PhD at Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.
Activities
Lecturer at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and Universidad del Desarrollo Law Schools. Furthermore, he is also the environmental law editor of the Journal of Applied Law LLM UC. He was Visiting Scholar at Duke Law School during 2023 - 2024.
He has written over fifty articles in matters of his specialization which have been published in different journals.
He is also the author of the following books: 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:
• Judges as Environmental Regulators: How the Supreme Court Shaped the Environmental Assessment and Oversight (1994–2024) (Ediciones Der), 2025.
• Urban Wetlands: Regulation, Implementation, and Jurisprudence (Ediciones Der), 2023.
• The Right to Live in a Pollution-Free Environment: Perspectives, Evolution, and Jurisprudential Standards (Ediciones DER), 2020.
• Environmental Impact Assessment System: Analysis and Resolution of Practical Cases (Ediciones DER), 2018.
• The Legal Framework of Nuclear Energy in Chile (Thomson Reuter – Legal Publishing), 2013.
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Edesio Carrasco has a lot of experience in handling environmental matters. He is diligent and very knowledgeable.
Edesio Carrasco has a lot of experience in handling environmental matters. He is diligent and very knowledgeable.
