Guillermo Vidal Albarracín graduated as a lawyer from Universidad Austral and was awarded a postgraduate Specialization Degree in Criminal Law from that University.

He has taught the subjects “Criminal Law”, “Law on Criminal Procedure” and “Customs Law and Criminal Economic Law” at Universidad Argentina de Empresas.

He was also a professor and coordinator in the postgraduate course in Customs Law at Escuela de Cuerpo de Abogados del Estado, as well as a lecturer and coordinator at many seminars organized by Customs Clearance Agents’ Center on the liability of customs clearance agents.

He is currently a professor of Customs Crimes, at the Postgraduate Department of Universidad Nacional de la Plata (2013-to date) and a visiting professor in the postgraduate program in Customs Law at Universidad de Buenos Aires and Universidad Di Tella.

He collaborated in the book Delitos Aduaneros (Customs Crimes) authored by Héctor Guillermo Vidal Albarracín, Mave Publishers (October 2004. 2006 and 2010 revised and expanded editions) and “Derecho Penal Aduanero” authored by Héctor Guillermo Vidal Albarracín, Ediciones Didot (2018). He co-authored the books La responsabilidad del despachante de aduanas (Liability of Customs Clearance Agents) (2009) and El despachante de aduana (Customs Clearance Agents) (2016), Guía Práctica – IARA SA. Publishers. He coordinated the book Jornadas de Trabajo de Derecho Aduanero – Lucha contra el contrabando de estupefacientes, cigarrillos, mercaderías falsificadas y copias piratas (Working Seminars on Customs Law – Fighting Against Trafficking of Drugs, Tobacco, Counterfeit Goods and Pirate Copies), Abeledo Perrot Publishers (2010) and the books of the seminars on preventive practices against drug trafficking (2011 and 2012). He co-authored the revised and expanded edition of Volume III of the Código Aduanero Comentado (Annotated Customs Code), Abeledo Perrot Publishers (2011) and wrote several articles published in specialized law journals.

From 1998 to 2016 he worked in Barreira, Rodriguez Larreta, Vidal Albarracín law firm (Estudio BRSV), as partner responsible for the General Criminal Law and Criminal Economic Law division. In 2016 he co-founded with his father Estudio Vidal Albarracín law firm, subsequently merged with Durrieu Abogados in June 2017 to create the Criminal Customs Law Division.

He was named Miembro de Número (Full Member) of Instituto Argentino de Estudios Aduaneros (Argentine Institute of Customs Studies) and a member of the Buenos Aires Bar Association, the Criminal Lawyers´ Association and the Lawyers’ Association of the City of Buenos Aires, where he also discharges duties as member of the Criminal Law and Law on Criminal Procedure Commission.

Languages Spanish and English