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Aída Kemelmajer
Aída R. Kemelmajer de Carlucci (born 4 November 1945) is an Argentine jurist, lawyer, and author. She was a Justice of the Supreme Court of Mendoza from 1984 to 2010. Kemelmajer was a member of the drafting commission of the updated Commercial and Civil Codes of Argentina. Born in San Martín, Mendoza, Kemelmajer earned a PhD in Law and Social Sciences the University of Mendoza. She was a tenured professor of civil law at the School of Law of the National University of Cuyo. Early life and educationAída R. Kemelmajer was born on 4 November 1945 in San Martín, Mendoza[1] to Jaique and Miguel Kemelmajer.[2] As a teenager, she was a castmember of the theater of the Faculty of Economic Sciences of the National University of Cuyo.[3] She earned her PhD in Law and Social Sciences from the University of Mendoza.[1] Legal careerGovernor of Mendoza Santiago Llaver appointed Kemelmajer to be the Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza in 1984. She was the first Jew to join the court.[2] Kemelmajer was a judge of the Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza Province from 1984 to 2010.[1] Kemelmajer called for the decriminalization of abortion. In a 2006 case, she ruled that a public hospital, which refused to comply with provisions of article 86 of the Penal Code of Argentina, was required to terminate the pregnancy of a disabled and abused young woman.[4] Kemelmajer was a tenured professor of civil law at the School of Law of the National University of Cuyo. She taught private law at the university's School of Economic Sciences.[3] She also taught postgraduate courses at universities in various European and Latin American countries.[1] She was a contracted professor at the University I, II, X and XII of Paris, Genoa and Bologna.[2] She was a professor of the Master in Bioethics and Law at the University of Barcelona, where she held membership in the university's Observatory of Bioethics and Law.[5] Kemelmajer was a member of the drafting commission of the updated Commercial and Civil Codes of Argentina, which have been in force since 2015.[3] She was also part of a study commission for the unification of procedural norms for UNIDROIT and a UNESCO group on the precautionary principle. Kemelmajer is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Union of Judicial Officers and the National Committee for Ethics in Science and Technology.[1] Kemelmajer has published dozens of books[3] and more than 400 monographic articles. She has also conducted training courses for judges in Argentina and other Latin American countries.[1] AwardsKemelmajer received a Diamond Konex Award in 2016. She has received degrees of Doctor Honoris Causa from universities in Argentina, Peru, and France.[1] Selected publications
Personal lifeKemelmajer married lawyer Nedo Carlucci in 1968. She has two children, Fabiana and Leandro.[3] References
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