/ Raúl Montero

Raúl is partner and director of the Litigation and Arbitration area at Alessandri. He specializes in corporate matters and particularly in litigious matters of various kinds, such as civil processes of contractual and extra-contractual civil liability, construction, telecommunications, free competition and unfair competition, intellectual and industrial property, application of the Consumer Protection Law, arbitration, among others.

He has vast experience in corporate advisory, board assistance, corporate governance and regulated markets, especially in telecommunications and healthcare, where he participated in various transformation projects in these sectors.

Our partner is active and relevant in dispute resolution through alternative dispute resolution mechanisms. In October 2021, Raúl was appointed arbitrator of the Arbitration and Mediation Center (CAM) of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CCS). He is also arbitrator for the Appeals Court of Santiago, since 2019. Member of the Pro Bono Arbitration Program, Legal Clinics Universidad Diego Portales, Fundación Probono and Corporación de Asistencia Judicial since 2013.

Academic and pregraduate and postgraduate professor of Procedural Law at Universidad de Chile and Universidad del Desarrollo for 25 years. At the Law School of the Universidad de Chile he has held various management positions, in the direction and sub-direction of the Procedural Law Department, as well as in the Career Coordination. He has also taught at the Universities Finis Terrae, Santo Tomás, San Sebastián and Gabriela Mistral, giving courses and seminars for various public services.

Chilean Bar Association.

Judicial Assistance Corporation of the Metropolitan Region.

National Arbitration Center.

2025
Criminal Procedural Law, Volume I and Volume II, Fourth Edition, updated and expanded. Librotecnia Publishing House. Co-authored with Cristián Maturana M.

2024
“Some comments on the de-unification of case law.” In “Procedural Law and Justice,” a book in honor of Cristián Maturana Miquel, Thomson Reuters. ISBN: 9789564005683

2022
“Right of access to the Jurisdiction and legal fees. Justice is not free.” Article in “Principles of Civil Justice”, Bosch, Spain.

2017
“Criminal Procedure Law”, Volume I and Volume II, Third Edition updated and supplemented. Editorial Librotecnia. In co-authorship with Cristián Maturana M.

“Need to establish a standard of proof in the new Chilean civil process”. Editorial Librotecnia.

2013 and 2015
Editor of the chapter on Arbitration of the Britcham publication Doing Business.

2012
Procedural Law Magazine, Faculty of Law, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, 2012, N ° 22, Civil Procedure Code Project. The Monitoring Procedure in the Civil Procedure Code Project.

2012
Maturana, Cristián / Montero, Raúl, Criminal Procedure Law. Volume I, Volume II, ISBN 978-956-346-125-1. AbeledoPerrot, Legal Publishing Chile, Thomson Reuters, Santiago, Chile.
Second Edition Updated and supplemented.

2010
Maturana, Cristián / Montero, Raúl, Criminal Procedure Law. Volume I, Volume II, ISBN 978-956-346-125-1. AbeledoPerrot, Legal Publishing Chile, Thomson Reuters, Santiago, Chile.

University of Chile, Faculty of Law

2005 – Present – Professor of Procedural Law.

2016-2020 – Director of the Department of Procedural Law.

2020-2024 – Deputy Director of the Department of Procedural Law

University of Development, Faculty of Law

2010 – Present – Professor of Procedural Law.

2016- 2022 – Coordinator of Procedural Law.

2016- 2022 – Member of the Career Council.

Other universities

2010 to 2014 –  Finis Terrae University. Faculty of Law

Professor of Procedural Law.

2006 to 2007 –  San Sebastián University. Faculty of Law

Professor of Procedural Law.

2006- Santo Tomás University. Faculty of Law

Professor of Procedural Law.

2024
Advanced Practical Seminar on International Arbitration in Construction American University, Washington College of Law (AU WCL), Center on International Commercial Arbitration, Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC)

2023
Seminar on International Commercial Arbitration, American University Washington College of Law (AU WCL), Center on International Commercial Arbitration, Inter-American Commission on Commercial Arbitration (CIAC) and Arbitration and Mediation Center of the Santiago Chamber of Commerce (CCS). May to July 2023

2022
International Investment Arbitration Seminar, American University Washington College of Law, Center on International Commercial Arbitration, International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (CIAC) and Arbitration and Mediation Center of Santiago Chamber of Commerce.