Elena Liberatori

Biography: Lawyer graduated from the School of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, specialized in Administrative Law and Public Administration. She is the head of the First Instance Court of Administrative and Tax Litigation n. °4, since 2000. She was a professor of Administrative Law and Human Rights and Guarantees at the University of Buenos Aires (1974-1994). He was awarded a prize by the Federación Argentina de Lesbianas, Gays, Bisexuales y Trans (FALGTB) for "his support, contribution and committed action for a fairer and more egalitarian country". His rulings on equal marriages, change of name for trans people, recognition of self-perceived identity, co-parenting and co-parenting, have served as background to the laws passed by the Congress of the Nation, as recorded in the parliamentary debates. Since October 2011, she has been in charge of the Ad Hoc Secretariat of Collective Cases on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Vulnerable Neighborhoods of the City of Buenos Aires. In 2015 she ruled in the "Parques Interama Case" issuing a 300-page final judgment in a process originated in the revocation of a concession in December 1983 and with judicial proceedings for almost 32 years. Likewise, in 2015 she was the first judge of first instance to recognize the "non-human" personality of an animal ("Sandra" case), a decision of wide repercussion both nationally and internationally.