Leslie Sánchez (attorney)
Leslie Valeska Sánchez Lobos (born 17 January 1984) is a Chilean attorney.
On January 23, 2023, she was appointed by the Senate as a member of the Expert Commission, tasked with drafting a constitutional text towards the 2023 Chilean constitutional referendum.
Biography
Background
Born in Santiago, Chile, on January 17, 1984, she completed her higher education at the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, where she earned a law degree, which led to her obtaining a bar from the Supreme Court of Chile.
Leslie Sánchez Lobos subsequently earned a master's degree in Constitutional Law from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, and in 2017, she obtained her PhD in Law from the same university with her doctoral thesis entitled The Concept of Parliamentary Control in the Chilean Constitutional Order.
Sánchez was co-supervised by the Doctoral Program in Rule of Law and Global Governance at the University of Salamanca. Her research supervisors were Sebastián Zárate (PUC, Chile) and María Mercedes Iglesias (Salamanca).
Professional career
Sánchez was a legislative advisor to the Senate of Chile from 2016 to 2021, as well as a professor of Constitutional Law at the Diego Portales University School of Law since 2021.
She also has been an advisor to the Chilean Ministry of the Interior and Public Security since June 2022.