Ricardo Gil Lavedra
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National Deputy from Buenos Aires |
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Assumed office December 10, 2009 |
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| Minister of Justice and Human Rights | |
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In office December 10, 1999 – October 11, 2000 |
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| President | Fernando de la Rúa |
| Preceded by | Raúl Granillo Ocampo |
| Succeeded by | Jorge de la Rúa |
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July 24, 1949  Buenos Aires
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| Political party | Radical Civic Union |
| Profession | Lawyer, magistrate |
Ricardo Gil Lavedra (born July 24, 1949) is an Argentine lawyer, magistrate, and politician.
Ricardo Rodolfo Gil Lavedra was born in Buenos Aires in 1949. He enrolled at the University of Buenos Aires Law School, and earned a juris doctor in 1972. He was named Secretary to the Supreme Court of the Province of Buenos Aires in 1973, and judge in the provincial Court of First Instance in 1974. He served as Solicitor General for the Argentine Supreme Court between 1976 and 1978, and was hired as Vice President of Legal Affairs for the Pérez Companc Group in 1979.
Gil Lavedra was appointed to the National Criminal Court of Appeals in 1984, and in this capacity, he served in the panel of judges overseeing the historic 1985 Trial of the Juntas, presiding over the trial in its early phase. His cross-examination of both witnesses and defendants reportedly focused on exploring the extent of criminal organizations that existed among the Dirty War perpetrators.
He was appointed Assistant Minister of Interior (akin to the Home Secretary) by President Raúl Alfonsín in 1988, and from 1987 to 1995, served as Vice President of the United Nations Committee Against Torture.
Following a term as Vice President of the Crime Prevention Institute of the Province of Buenos Aires, he was appointed Minister of Justice and Human Rights by President Fernando de la Rúa upon the latter's inaugural in December 1999. Subsequent revelations that the administration had bribed a number of UCR senators for their support of a stalled labor law flexibilization bill in April 2000 led to Gil Lavedra's resignation (as well as that of Vice President Carlos Álvarez and three other cabinet members) in October. President de la Rúa himself resigned a year later.
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