{{short description|Argentine politician and lawyer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox officeholder |image =Ricardo Gil Lavedra - Diputados.jpg |image_size=190px
| |name= Ricardo Gil Lavedra |caption= |office= [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies|National Deputy]] |constituency = City of Buenos Aires |term_start=10 December 2009 |term_end=10 December 2013 |office2= [[Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)|Minister of Justice and Human Rights]] |term_start2=10 December 1999 |term_end2=11 October 2000 |president2=[[Fernando de la Rúa]] |predecessor2=Raúl Granillo Ocampo |successor2=[[Jorge de la Rúa]] |birth_date= {{birth date and age|1949|07|24|df=y}} |birth_place= Buenos Aires, Argentina |profession= Lawyer, magistrate |party= [[Radical Civic Union]] |footnotes= }} '''Ricardo Gil Lavedra''' (born 24 July 1949) is an Argentine lawyer, magistrate, and politician. A member of the [[Radical Civic Union]], Gil Lavedra served as [[Ministry of Justice and Human Rights (Argentina)|Minister of Justice]] during the early presidency of [[Fernando de la Rúa]], from 1999 to 2000. From 2009 to 2013, he was a member of the [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies]] elected in Buenos Aires.
==Early life and education== Ricardo Rodolfo Gil Lavedra was born in Buenos Aires in 1949. He enrolled at the [[University of Buenos Aires]] Law School, and earned a ''[[juris doctor]]'' in 1972. He was named Secretary to the Supreme Court of the [[Province of Buenos Aires]] in 1973, and [[judge]] in the provincial Court of First Instance in 1974. He was hired as Vice President of Legal Affairs for the [[Gregorio Pérez Companc|Pérez Companc Group]] in 1979.<ref name=cv>{{Cite web |url=http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/seguridad_justicia/justicia_trabajo/tribunal_superior/cv/lavedra.pdf |title=Ricardo Gil Lavedra: curriculum vitae |access-date=13 February 2011 |language=es |archive-date=4 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022859/http://estatico.buenosaires.gov.ar/areas/seguridad_justicia/justicia_trabajo/tribunal_superior/cv/lavedra.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Career== Gil Lavedra was appointed to the National Criminal Court of Appeals in 1984, and in this capacity, he served in the panel of judges overseeing the historic 1985 [[Trial of the Juntas]], presiding over the trial in its early phase. His [[cross-examination]] of both witnesses and defendants reportedly focused on exploring the extent of [[criminal organization]]s that existed among the [[Dirty War]] perpetrators.<ref name=libros>[http://www.ayeshalibros.com.ar/anteriores/reportajes/reportajesestelacarlotto.htm Margulis, Alejandro: Estela de Carlotto, presidenta de Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo {{in lang|es}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080202131050/http://www.ayeshalibros.com.ar/anteriores/reportajes/reportajesestelacarlotto.htm |date=2008-02-02 }}</ref>
He was appointed Assistant Minister of Interior by President [[Raúl Alfonsín]] in 1988, and from 1987 to 1995, served as Vice President of the [[United Nations]] [[United Nations Convention against Torture#Committee against Torture|Committee Against Torture]].<ref name=cv/>
Following a term as Vice President of the Crime Prevention Institute of the province of Buenos Aires, he was appointed Minister of Justice and Human Rights by President [[Fernando de la Rúa]] upon the latter's inaugural in December 1999. Subsequent revelations that the administration had bribed a number of UCR senators for their support of a stalled labor law flexibilization bill in April 2000 led to Gil Lavedra's resignation (as well as that of Vice President [[Carlos Álvarez (Argentine politician)|Carlos Álvarez]] and three other cabinet members) in October. President de la Rúa himself resigned a year later.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.clarin.com/diario/2000/10/07/p-00315.htm |title=''Clarín'' (October 7, 2000) |access-date=13 February 2011 |language=es |archive-date=10 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410232809/https://www.clarin.com/diario/2000/10/07/p-00315.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[File:Medalla del Bicentenario a los magistrados.jpg|thumb|260px|Ricardo Gil Lavedra (''third from left'') joins fellow presiding judges of the 1985 Trial of the Juntas in receiving the Bicentennial Medal from Mayor [[Mauricio Macri]] (''third from right'') on 26 October 2010.]]
Gil Lavedra served as an Associate Judge in the [[Inter-American Court of Human Rights]] between 2001 and 2003, and in the Argentine Supreme Court, between 2002 and 2005. He wrote numerous articles on [[constitutional law]] and [[legal theory]] beginning in 1977, including ''An Overview of Constitutional Amendments in Latin America'' in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://islandia.law.yale.edu/sela/lavedras.pdf |title="Un vistazo a las Reformas Constitucionales en Latinoamérica". ''Seminario en Latinoamérica de Teoría Constitucional y Política''. SELA, 2002. |access-date=13 February 2011 |language=es |archive-date=25 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100625221247/http://islandia.law.yale.edu/sela/lavedras.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> He also served as legal advisor for the [[United Nations Development Programme]], and is a member of the [[Permanent Assembly for Human Rights]] and other Argentine jurisprudence associations.<ref name=cv/>
He ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the [[Argentine Senate]] on the center-left [[Radical Civic Union|UCR]] ticket in [[2003 Argentine general election|2003]],<ref>[http://www.ucrcapital.org.ar/noticias_detalle.php?id=17 UCR Capital (11 Sep 2007) {{in lang|es}}]</ref> and in [[2009 Argentine legislative election|2009]], was elected to the [[Argentine Chamber of Deputies]] as a UCR member of the [[Social and Civic Agreement]].<ref>[http://www.ucrcapital.org.ar/noticias_detalle.php?id=3081 UCR Capital (17 Jun 2009) {{in lang|es}}]</ref> He endorsed fellow UCR Congressman [[Ricardo Alfonsín]] upon the latter's August 2010 announcement of a presidential bid in [[2011 Argentine general election|2011]].<ref>[http://m24digital.com/en/2010/08/09/alfonsin-launched-his-presidential-bid-by-the-ucr-on-october-30/ ''Momento 24'' (9 Aug 2010) {{in lang|es}}]</ref>
==Personal life== His son, filmmaker [[Nicolás Gil Lavedra]], announced the production in 2011 of ''Estela'', a [[biopic|biographical film]] on the life of [[Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo]] leader [[Estela Barnes de Carlotto]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.urgente24.com/noticias/val/2589-144/susu-pecoraro-sera-estela-de-carlotto.html |title=''Urgente 24'' (12 Jan 2011) |access-date=13 February 2011 |language=es |archive-date=15 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110115082258/http://www.urgente24.com/noticias/val/2589-144/susu-pecoraro-sera-estela-de-carlotto.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> (whose testimony the elder Gil Lavedra took as part of the Trial of the Juntas in 1985).<ref name=libros/>
==External links== *[http://gillavedra.com.ar/ Personal website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221026/http://gillavedra.com.ar/ |date=3 March 2016 }} *[http://www.diputados.gov.ar/ Argentine Chamber of Deputies site]
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