When Lucila Larrandart finished primary school, they did not enroll her in secondary school. At that time it was assumed that what a girl needed to know was covered with initial education. Lucila grabbed her document and told her father: “I’m going to sign up for school.” Larrandart She was the first female director of the department of criminal law and criminology at the UBA.. She was a defender of political prisoners during the last dictatorship from the Center for Legal and Social Studies and was a member of Conadep. Then, as a judge, she sentenced repressors who committed crimes against humanity in the clandestine center that operated in Campo de Mayo. He passed away this Saturday.
Throughout his career, Larlandart stood out in the field of human rights until she became a federal judge in San Martín. Among other causes, she was in charge of the Luis Patti trial, for which the former commissioner was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2011.
At the very beginning of democracy she had been a collaborator of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons in receiving complaints. She had specialized in criminal law. At the beginning of the dictatorship, she had been declared unemployed as a secretary of a juvenile court.. She went on to work at the Center for Legal and Social Studies before joining the Conadep Complaints Secretariat.
Larrandart worked as a national consultant from the United Nations Latin American Institute for the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders (ILANUD), from the United Nations Interregional Institute for Research on Crime and Justice (UNICRI) and was also a legal consultant for Unicef in Argentina.
In addition, she served as associate professor in charge of the Elements of Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure chair at the Faculty of Law of the University of Buenos Aires and as vice director of the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology of the same university. He was a member of the Advisory Council of the Justice Studies Foundation.
“I was lucky to be Lucila’s student in the ’90s at the faculty and that allowed me to start being her student assistant at the faculty, then be a teacher with her and then part of her chair, and also work for many years with her, at his side, in the Federal Oral Court of San Martín,” he recalled Elizabeth Gomez Alcorta upon the news of his death.
When consulted by this newspaper, the former Minister of Women, Gender and Diversity considered that “beyond her professional and academic career, what has marked the most in all of us who were close to her is her integrity, its deep coherencehis making the human rights of all people flesh and reality beyond the papers”.
For Gómez Alcorta “she always had a very genuine commitment, a very clear responsibility regarding what it meant to be a judge and to hand down a sentence with a deeply human perspective on each of the people who came to the penal system. She taught that same thing in college throughout over many years.” And she evoked that Larrandart “She arrived first and left the court lastwrote his sentences and resolutions, things that one might think are elementary but, however, sadly, are not.”
His wake will take place this Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m. and tomorrow Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Casa Malabia (Malabia 1662). She will be buried this Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Pilar Peace Garden.
