Lilliam Arrieta Carsana

Lilliam Arrieta Carsana is a Salvadoran lawyer and law professor who has dedicated most of her professional career to teaching and researching topics related to the rule of law and, most recently, gender studies. Dr. Arrieta holds a PhD in Law and a Master’s degree in Legal Research, both from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain). She graduated from the Law School of the Central American University “José Simeón Cañas” (UCA) in San Salvador (El Salvador). Before studying Law, she completed one year of Political Sciences at the “Andes” University in Colombia and one year at Paris VIII in France. 

In 2010, she received the university’s Rector “Extraordinary Doctoral Award” for her thesis and was the Valedictorian of her class at the end of her bachelor’s degree. She clerked for eight years at the Supreme Court of El Salvador, and later worked for ten years as Legal Research Coordinator at the Salvadoran Foundation for Economic and Social Development (FUSADES). 

She currently writes for one of the top three newspapers in El Salvador and is the author of numerous individual as well as collective publications. Throughout her life, Lilliam Arrieta has lived in several countries, and in addition to her native Spanish, she speaks French, English, and Italian fluently, as well as basic Portuguese.