Camilo Sampedro Arrubla has thirty years of experience in the practice of criminal law. He is a lawyer from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, specialized in criminal law and criminology, Master in criminal and criminological sciences and doctoral candidate in law. Academically, he has been a professor of criminal law, criminal procedure and disciplinary law at the Universidad Externado de Colombia, both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and as a guest professor in specializations in environmental, notarial, customs, tax and administrative law, among others.

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He has also taught at other universities as a guest lecturer and at institutes such as the Institute of Disciplinary Studies of the Attorney General's Office and Colombian Procedural Law. He is currently a judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Honorable Supreme Court of Justice.

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He is the author of many works on criminal law, criminology, criminal procedural law and disciplinary law and is an outstanding lecturer in important specialized forums.

He is currently a professor at the Universidad Externado de Colombia and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.

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He has served as criminal advisor to the office of the Minister of Justice and legal advisor to the Fundación País Libre. Since 1993 he has been a trial attorney at the law firm Sampedro/Torres Asesores Legales.

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