Minela Maritzel Morcillo Salazar

Minela Maritzel Morcillo Salazar has practiced law since 1994, and her practice centers on maritime law, particularly ship registration and maritime procedure, areas in which she has worked in both the private and public sectors.

For eight years she served as a judge on a Panamanian maritime court. Earlier, as a law clerk in the civil chamber of the country’s supreme court, she handled maritime appeals as well as cassation appeals, petitions for review, and appeals against the denial of appeals. In civil circuit courts she served as a court clerk and as an alternate judge, and at a law firm she headed the vessels department.

She also took part in Panama’s first National Maritime Strategy and in draft reforms of maritime legislation, including the proposed amendments to the maritime procedure law and the General Merchant Marine Law. She is the author of a commented consolidated text of the maritime procedure law and of articles on maritime jurisdiction, and she has taught at universities and spoken at forums on the subject, covering topics such as maritime appeals, conflict of laws, and the effects of international bankruptcy in that jurisdiction.

She holds a degree in Law and Political Science from the University of Panama, master’s degrees in Maritime Law from Universidad Católica Santa María La Antigua and in Procedural Law from Universidad Interamericana de Panamá, and a specialization in International Maritime Law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas.

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