University of St. Thomas

About UST International ADR Research Network (Spanish) (English)

Mariana 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.

Courses Taught

Mediation       
Community Advocacy
International Alternative Dispute Resolution   

Mailing Address

MSL 400
1000 LaSalle Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55403-2015