Ignacio Urbina

Partner

Ignacio Urbina leads the firm’s Environmental Law practice. Ignacio has vast experience advising clients in environmental permitting procedures, onsite inspections, enforcement proceedings, constitutional protection claims, environmental damage claims, environmental emergencies, auditing procedures, circular economy, ESG, climate change, and constitutional matters related to environmental protection. He previously worked at Barros y Errázuriz Abogados (2013-2022), at the Environmental Superintendence (2010-2013), and at Yrarrázaval, Ruiz-Tagle, Goldenberg, Lagos & Silva (2009-2010)

Education

• Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) in Environmental Law, Pace University, New York, 2018.
• Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Michigan, 2012.
• Law Degree, Catholic University of Chile, 2009.

Awards and Recognitions

• Recognized by Best Lawyers ranking in the Environmental Law category (2023 and 2024).
• Chilean Scholarship holder for postgraduate studies abroad (2015-2017).
• Pace Law School Merit Award (2015).
• Chilean Scholarship holder for postgraduate studies abroad (2011-2012).
• Michigan Grotius Fellowship (2011).

Memberships & Academic Activities

• Professor of the Administrative Law Diploma, Catholic University of Chile. Since 2021.
• Professor of the Environmental Law Diploma, University of the Andes. Since 2020.
• Professor of the Natural Resources and Environment Diploma, University of the Andes. Since 2018.
• Member of the Chilean Bar Association.

Languages

• Spanish and English.

Publications

• Análisis inicial de proyectos en la gestión ambiental: 12 claves para el diseño de una estrategia (with Pablo Badenier and Juan Carlos Monckeberg), in Kay Bergamini (ed.), Gestión de cumplimiento ambiental, (RIL Editores), 2022.
• Revisión judicial de la sanción ambiental: A propósito de Pascua Lama (with Francisco Urbina), in Arturo Fermandois (ed.) Sentencias Destacadas 2014 (Libertad y Desarrollo), 2015.
• Un debate anglosajón sobre derechos: Reflexiones para nuestro debate público, in Eduardo Soto Kloss (ed.), Matrimonio, familia y vida (Conferencias Tomás de Aquino) (Ediciones UST), 2012.
• Levantamiento del velo corporativo (case comment). Revista Chilena de Derecho, Vol. 38, N°1, 2011.