Pablo Alarcón Peña is Director of the Graduate School of Law of the Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES). Doctor in Law, PhD, research professor at national and international universities. Author of books and articles in national and international indexed journals. His research interests focus on constitutional law, constitutional procedural law, comparative law and theory of law and legal transplants. His career includes technical-constitutional advisory positions in public and private entities. He has been an expert witness proposed by the Ecuadorian State in several cases under the jurisdiction of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

• Primary and Secondary Education: Colegio Americano de Quito
• University Studies: Universidad San Francisco de Quito. Degrees: Baccalaureus Artium in Legal Sciences and Lawyer.
• Postgraduate Studies: Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador. Degrees: Doctor in Law, PhD, thesis approved with academic distinction.
• Master in Law, mention in Constitutional Law, thesis approved with academic distinction. Superior Diploma in Law, mention in Constitutional Law.
• 2003: Constitutional Assistant of the Constitutional Tribunal of Ecuador.
• 2006-2009: Practicing attorney and deputy director of the constitutional law department of Estudio Jurídico Alarcón y Asociados.
• 2008: Consultant to the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights in the elaboration of inputs related to the Organic Law of Jurisdictional Guarantees and Constitutional Control of Ecuador.
• 2009: Constitutional advisor to the First Chamber of the Constitutional Court for the transition period of Ecuador.
• 2010: Jurisdictional Institutional Advisor in the Jurisdictional Technical Secretariat of the Constitutional Court for the transition period.
• 2010: Full-time graduate assistant/teacher Universidad de los Andes, Colombia.
• 2010-2011: Coordinator of the Technical Groups of selection, review, admission, substantiation, of the Jurisdictional Technical Secretariat of the Constitutional Court for the transition period.
• 2011-2013: Jurisdictional Technical Secretary of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador for the transition period.
• 2013: Expert witness proposed by the Ecuadorian State in the case of Camba Campos et al. v. Ecuador. Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• 2013-2018: Advisor 2 of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador.
• 2015: Expert witness proposed by the Ecuadorian State in the case of Gonzáles Lluy and Family vs. Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• 2016: Expert proposed by the Ecuadorian State, Vásquez Durand and Family v. Ecuador. Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• 2010- 2018. Hired professor of the Specialty and Master in Constitutional Law Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES).
• 2009-2018. Hired professor of the Law Area of the Universidad Andina Sede Ecuador.
• 2013-2017: Master in Constitutional Law, Universidad Católica Santiago de Guayaquil.
• 2014: Lecturer on constitutional law and amparo. Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM).
• 2015: Distinction as “Jurist of the Year”, conferred by the National Federation of Lawyers of Ecuador, “In recognition of his tireless pursuit of justice and the defense of rights becoming an example for those of us who closely follow the development of the legal profession in the country”.”
• 2017: Invited lecturer Master's Degree in Labor Law and Social Security. University of Cuenca. Currently: Director of Postgraduate Studies in Law, Universidad Espíritu Santo (UEES).
• 2019: Associate Member of the Ibero-American Association of Labor and Social Security Law.
• 2021: Member of ICON*S, International Society of Public Law.
• 2021: Co-director of the Legal Thought and Constitutional Theory Series. Editorial Derecho Global- Mexico.
• 2022: Board Member of BeLatin, an initiative of the University of California, Berkeley.
• 2022: Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Constitutional Studies Program, University of Texas at Austin, Distinction conferred to selected researchers worldwide who have contributed to the study of constitutional law.