Juan Manuel Raffalli Arismendi is a Venezuelan constitutional lawyer, [1] [2] law professor, and politician. [3]
Raffalli graduated from Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB) in 1986, [4] and received his law degree, focused on procedural law, [3] from UCAB in 1989. [4] He has been a law professor at three Venezuelan universities: UCAB (where he was also the head of the Law Department), Monteávila University, and the Institute for Superior Administrative Studies. [3] [4] He is a partner with the law firm of Raffalli de Lemos Halvorssen Ortega and Ortiz. [4]
Raffalli founded the Constitutional Forum of Venezuela and was president of the Justice and Democracy Foundation. [3] He served as a director for the Caracas Chamber of Industry and Commerce, and as a member of the legal committee for the Venezuelan–American chamber of commerce (VENAMCHAM). [4]
He served in Venezuela's parliament as an alternate deputy to the National Assembly, [3] and assisted the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable (Spanish : Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, MUD) in dialogue with the government of Nicolás Maduro. [5]
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