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 by President
Raúl Alfonsín in 1988, and from 1987 to 1995, served as Vice President of the
United Nations Committee Against Torture. (
third from right) on 26 October 2010. Gil Lavedra served as an Associate Judge in the
Inter-American Court of Human Rights between 2001 and 2003, and in the Argentine Supreme Court, between 2002 and 2005. He wrote numerous articles on
constitutional law and
legal theory beginning in 1977, including
An Overview of Constitutional Amendments in Latin America in 2002. He also served as legal advisor for the
United Nations Development Programme, and is a member of the
Permanent Assembly for Human Rights and other Argentine jurisprudence associations. and in
2009, was elected to the
Argentine Chamber of Deputies as a UCR member of the
Social and Civic Agreement. He endorsed fellow UCR Congressman
Ricardo Alfonsín upon the latter's August 2010 announcement of a presidential bid in
2011. ==Personal life==