Background
TORUNO, FERNANDO was born on May 9, 1933 in Guatemala.
TORUNO, FERNANDO was born on May 9, 1933 in Guatemala.
University of San Carlos de Guatemala. Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Licentiate in Judicial and Social Sciences.
President of Guatemalan Bar Association. Secretary Guatemalan Section of the International Juridical Commission, sponsored by the United Nations. University Professor of Civil Proceedings Law and Theory of Process at the Faculty of Law, University of San Carlos de Guatemala, and University Rafael Landivar.
President Court of Honor Guatemalan Bar Association. Student of Post-Grade Course on Political and Economical Organizations of Latin America, sponsored by the International Faculty of Compared Law of Strasbourg: Member of the National Taxation Amendment Commission. Secretary, University of San Carlos.
Counsel of the Consejo Superior Universitario Centroamericano. Founder and President of the Guatemalan Notarial Institute. President, Congress of Guatemalan Lawyers and Notaries.
Vice-President, for life, Permanent Council of the International Union of Latin Notariat. Trustee, Foundation of University del Valle. Spoken languages: Spanish and English.
Worked at Quezada Toruno & Asociados (Guatemala City) specializing in Corporate, Banking, Finance, Oil and Gas, Litigation. Admitted to the bar, 1958, Guatemala. Publications: "The Weight of Evidence," 1960.
"The Qualifying Function of the Registry of Real Estate Property," 1965. "Theory and Technique of the Recourse of Cassation," 1990. Professor of Procedural Law and Analitical Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law, University Francisco Marroquin, 1983-1988.
Lecturer post-graduate course, The Recourse of Cassation, University of San Carlos, Guatemala, 1968. Lecturer and Professor of Tax Law, Faculty of Law, University Rafael Landivar, 1988-1991. Member of the Honour Tribunal of the Guatemalan Bar Association, 1962-1963.
Secretary of the Guatemalan Chapter of the International Attorney Commission patronised by the United Nations Organisation, 1963-1967. Founding member of the Guatemalan Institution of Notarial Law, 1971. President, Guatemalan Bar Association, 1971-1972.
Board of Director, Guatemalan American Institute, 1974-1975. Trustee and Secretary of the Foundation of the University del Valle, 1974-1990. Vice-President and Secretary of the Guatemalan Business Managers Associations, 1984-1986.
1986-1988. Representative, Iberoamerican Union of Lawyers, Guatemaia, 1989. President of the Guatemalan Institute of Legal Computeor Technology, 1991-1993.Founding Member of the Centre of Constitutional Defense, 1992. Alternate Magistrate of the Court of Constitutionality, 1995.
Inter-American Association of the Industrial Property (ASIPI). International Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property).