School of Law
Hernandez-Crespo Promoted to Associate Professor of Law
Hernandez-Crespo Promoted to Associate Professor of Law
Hernandez-Crespo Promoted to Associate Professor of Law
The University of St. Thomas School of Law has promoted Mariana Hernandez-Crespo to the rank of Associate Professor of Law. Promotion to Associate Professor of Law recognizes Hernandez-Crespo’s achievements in her first three years as a teacher, scholar and contributing member of the School of Law’s community. While at St. Thomas, she has founded the UST International ADR Research Network and taught courses including: Mediation, Community Advocacy, Environmental Problem-Solving and ADR.
Hernandez-Crespo holds J.D. and LL.M. degrees from Harvard Law School, where she was co-president of the Latin American Law Society. She taught classes at the Universidad Metropolitana in Venezuela regarding public leadership, civic engagement and multi-party negotiation. She also taught Alternative Dispute Resolution classes at the Law School of University Alfonso X El Sabio in Madrid, Spain.
Her first law degree was from the Universidad Catolica Andres Bello (UCAB) in Caracas. At UCAB, she received the 40th Anniversary of the University Full Scholarship Award Prize for authoring the best law-related paper. She taught criminal law at UCAB (as a student professor appointed by the university president), and founded and led a program for children under state custody. In Caracas, she practiced law and clerked for Justice Calcano de Temeltas of the Supreme Court.
Hernandez-Crespo worked as an associate at Davis Polk and Wardwell in New York City. Her research focuses on alternative dispute resolution, mediation, international and comparative law, and law and development.
