Lucila Larrandart dies | A judge who respected human rights

When? Lucilla Larrandarte They did not enroll her in secondary school even after she finished primary school. At that time it was taken for granted that what a girl needed to know was included in elementary education. Lucila picked up her document and told her father: “I’m going to sign up for school.” Larrandart She was the first female director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at UBA.. She was a defender of political prisoners during the last dictatorship from the Center for Legal and Social Studies and a member of Condepe. Later, as a judge, she sentenced repressors who committed crimes against humanity in the clandestine center that operated in the Campo de Mayo. He died this Saturday,

Throughout his career, Larlandart pioneer in the field of human rights Until she became a federal judge in San Martín. Among other causes, she was in charge of the trial of Luis Paty, for which the former commissioner was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011.

At the beginning of democracy she was an associate of the National Commission on Disappearance of Persons in receiving complaints. She specialized in criminal law. At the beginning of the dictatorship, he was declared unemployable as secretary of the Juvenile Court.. Before joining the Complaints Secretariat of CONDEP she worked at the Centre for Legal and Social Studies.

Larrandart served as national advisor from the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), from the United Nations Interregional Institute for Research on Crime and Justice (UNICRI) and was also a legal consultant for UNICEF in Argentina.

In addition, he served as Associate Professor in charge of Elements of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, and Deputy Director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the same university. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the Justice Studies Foundation,

“I was lucky enough to have been Lucila’s student at the Faculty in the 90s and that gave me the opportunity to start as her student assistant at the Faculty, then to become a teacher with her, and then to be part of her chair and work with her for many years. She, by her side, at the Federal Oral Court of San Martín,” he recalled Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta On the news of his death.

Consulted by this newspaper, the former Minister for Women, Gender and Diversity acknowledged that “beyond his professional and academic career, what has most marked him in all of us who were close to him is his integrity”. its deep coherenceHis mission to make the human rights of all people material and a reality, beyond paper.

For Gómez Alcorta, “she always had a very real commitment, a very clear responsibility to what it means to be a judge and to sentence each person who comes to the penal system with a deeply human approach. She taught that same thing in college for many years.” And he evoked that Larrandart “She was the first to arrive and the last to leave the courtwrote his sentences and resolutions, things one might think are elementary, but, unfortunately, they are not.”

His vigil will be this Saturday from 5pm to 11pm and tomorrow Sunday from 10am to 2pm at Casa Malabia (Malabia 1662). He will be buried at the Pillar Peace Garden this Sunday at 3pm,