Work Address:

Avenida Francisco de Miranda, Cruce con Avenida del Parque, Torre Edicampo, Pent House, Caracas.
Telephone: (58-2) 2765022 - 2765023.
Fax: (58-2) 2641637 – 2641532
International P.O.Box:  José Alfredo Giral, c/o Baker & McKenzie, M-287, Jet Cargo International, P.O. Box 020010, Miami, Florida 33102-0010
Email: jose.alfredo.giral@bakernet.com

Home Address

Calle Guaicaipuro, Residencias La Doña, Piso 10, Apartment 10-4, El Rosal, Caracas.
Telephone: (58-2) 9516384
Email: jagiral@cantv.net

EDUCATION

Harvard Law School Visiting Researcher, 1997-1998

Harvard Law School LL M 1984

Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, J.D. "Summa Cum Laude", 1977-1982.

TEACHING

Seminar on International Contracts, Master Degree in Conflict of Laws (Private International Law), Universidad Central de Venezuela 1999 – 2000.

Conflict of Laws Professor, Universidad Católica Andrés Bello,  Law School since 1990.

Banking Law Professor - Universidad Católica "Andrés Bello" - Graduate Program from 1990 to 1995.

Alternate to the Professor of Private Economic Law at the Faculty of Economics of Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.

Assistant Professor of Roman Law II (Obligations) 1981-1982. Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas.

LANGUAGES

Spanish Fluent

English Fluent

Baker & McKenzie, Caracas, Local Partner since 1992.

Founding member of the Banking Law Department of said Law Firm in 1986.

Admitted as Associate of the International Law Firm of Baker & McKenzie, Caracas in September 1984.

MEMBERSHIP:

Arbitrator of the Caracas Chamber of Commerce. (1999).

PUBLICATIONS

Comments to Ruling 4211 of December 19, 1996 from the Attorney General 102 Universidad Central de Venezuela, Law Review 313-321 (Ed. UCV, 1997).

The Financial Intermediation 18-19 Commercial Law Review, 41-53 (Editorial Livrosca, 1995).

Conflicts of Law on Drafts, Checks, Notes and Receipts. 96 Universidad Central de Venezuela Law Review 85-152 (Ed. UCV, 1995).

Jurisdiction Clauses in International Commercial Contracts 9-15 Commercial Law Review 63 (Editorial Jurídica Alva, 1994).

Note: a book about the new Venezuelan Principles of Conflict of Laws applicable to International Contracts written as Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School is currently in the process of publication.