José Manuel Díaz de Valdés is a member of Carey y Cía.’s Public Law Department. He practices in Constitutional Law, Administrative Law and Utilities Law. Mr. Díaz de Valdés is professor of Comparative Law at Universidad Alberto Hurtado and professor of Constitutional Change, Evolution and Reform for the Master in Public Law Program at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He has also taught Legal Research Methodology (2002-2003) and Constitutional Law (2001). He has published in Public Law (Carl Schmitt and the National Congress Established by the Constitution of 1980, Ediciones Universitarias de Valparaíso, Chile, 2003) and Commercial Law (Investments Abroad, Les Annonces De La Seine, France, 2000). He is a graduate of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Law School and was awarded the Tocornal, Montenegro and Rozas Awards to the best GPA of his class. In 2001 he was admitted to the bar and in 2003, he received a Master’s Degree in Public Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, being awarded the Alejandro Silva Bascuñan Award to the best GPA of his class. He also holds a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M.) from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (British Council Scholar, 2004), and a Master of Laws Degree (LL.M.) from Harvard University, USA (Fulbright Scholar, 2005). Languages: Spanish and English.