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Leandro Damián Ríos (November 21, 1975) is a federal judge from Argentina, head of the Federal Court of Paraná No. 1 since 2012. He graduated as a lawyer from the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (UNL) in the year 1999.

In October 2012, he assumed the post of Federal Court No. 1 of Paraná as a federal judge, with electoral jurisdiction throughout the province of Entre Ríos.

As a federal judge, he works in cases related to organized crime, such as drug trafficking, money laundering, human trafficking, tax evasion. He has also intervened in cases related to crimes against humanity, which occurred during the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.

As the highest electoral authority in the Entre Ríos district, carries out the elections and all judicial processes related to political parties.

Biografy
He is the son of Aníbal María Ríos, who was a Federal Judge with Electoral jurisdiction for the Entre Ríos District, during the years 1984 and 2007. .

Formal education and professional career
Leandro Ríos received his law degree in August 1999 from the Universidad Nacional del Litoral, and practiced the profession independently without interruption until February 2010, as an associate at Raquel Gerbotto de Di Liscia and Julio A. Federik law firm, active in Parana and CABA.

He has other postgraduate degrees from the same university, including:


 * Specialist Lawyer in Criminal Law (2002), after defending his monograph “Los límites del riesgo" (The Limits Of Risk).
 * Magister in Criminal Law (2020), after defending his thesis “Estudios propedéuticos sobre el delito de financiamiento ilícito de los partidos políticos. Análisis de las relaciones concursales y de derecho comparado" (Procedural Studies On The Crime Of Illicit Financing Of Political Parties. Analysis Of Corporate Bankruptcy And Comparative Law Relations)
 * Doctorate in Law (2021), after defending his thesis “Sistema Jurídico Electoral Represivo. Análisis integral de los delitos y las faltas electorales en el ordenamiento jurídico argentino" (Repressive Electoral Legal System. Comprehensive Analysis Of Crimes And Electoral Offenses In The Argentine Legal System).

As a teacher, he is an Ordinary Associate Professor of Criminal Law and a stable teacher in numerous master's degrees and specializations in Law at the Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (FCJS-UNL) for more than 20 years. He is also Categorized Research Professor of the Ministry of Education of the Argentine Republic.

He was a fellow of the Alfa Interuniversity Network, a fellow of the Coimbra Group, and fellow of the Erasmus Mundus Program. Theses fellowships as a teacher and researcher, were mainly carryed out at the University of Granada, Spain.

He is a Lecturer and Guest Professor at the Argentinian universities of Buenos Aires (UBA), Rosario (UNR), Entre Ríos (UNER), Tucumán (UNT), Córdoba (UNC), Northeast (UNNE), La Rioja (UNLAR), La Plata (UNLP), Cuenca del Plata (UCP), Católica Argentina (UCA) and Austral (UA). He also has developed teaching and research task at the Spanish universities of Granada (UGR), Jaén (UJaén), Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Miguel Hernández de Elche (UMH), at the Alfonso X El Sabio (UAX) private university in Madrid and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM).

He is the author of publications on topics related to Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Electoral, Environmental, Gender and the General Theory of Law.

In the professional field, he has performed in the different legal roles of defense attorney, plaintiff attorney, prosecutor and judge.