Carlos Frontaura

Carlos Frontaura Rivera is a Chilean lawyer.
In his public career, Frontaura has served as a human rights advisor and expert on constitutional issues.
Frontaura was a member of the Gremial Movement, which he joined through Jaime Guzmán. Despite not being a formal member, he is close to the Republican Party. Similarly, he is Roman catholic.

Biography

He was born in Recoleta, Santiago, Chile, on July 16, 1968. He is the son of lawyer Juan Frontaura Gómez and Paulina Rivera Cruchaga. He is married to Ana María Vergara Guzmán since 2002, with whom he has seven children.
Frontaura studied law at the Pontifical [Catholic University of Chile], where he was a student of Jaime Guzmán. At the university's Law School, he began teaching the History of Law in 1997 and has since taught other courses on family, society, and human rights. While serving as vice-rector, he was elected dean of the school in December 2014 and assumed his duties in January 2015.
In May 2013, the Senate of Chile appointed him a member of the National Institute of Human Rights, a position he held until 2022, after being ratified by vote in 2016.

Public career

2023 Constitutional Council

In 2023, during the constitutional process of that year, the Chamber of Deputies appointed him a member of the Expert Commission to draft a new Constitution. Frontaura was appointed to the Republican Party's seat.
He served on the Subcommittee on Principles, Civil, and Political Rights, and later joined the joint commission to resolve discrepancies regarding the constitutional draft.
The proposed constitution was rejected after Chilean constitutional referendum|a referendum in December].

Works

Book

Casos para la Enseñanza del Derecho Ediciones UC, 2015.