Gabriel Osorio

Gabriel Osorio Vargas (born 21 May 1983) is a Chilean lawyer, academic and politician, member of the Socialist Party of Chile.

He was a member of the Expert Commission created to draft a preliminary constitutional text during the 2023 Chilean constitutional process.

Biography Early life and education He was born in Santiago in 1983, the son of Mario Osorio Bustamante and Mónica Vargas Gajardo. He is married to Ximena Jara Mardones.

He attended primary and secondary education at the Liceo Experimental "Manuel de Salas". He studied law at the Central University of Chile, graduating in April 2010. In 2016, he obtained a master’s degree in Law with a specialization in Public Law from the University of Chile.

Professional career Osorio has taught at several Chilean universities, both public and private: at Adolfo Ibáñez University (Electoral Law and Electoral Justice), at the University of Chile (guest professor in a diploma on strategic litigation in fundamental rights), at Andrés Bello University (Political Institutions and Organic Constitutional Law), and at the Central University of Chile (Constitutional Electoral Law).

From 2011 to 2014, he worked as a lawyer at the firm Zúñiga Campos Abogados. He later became co-founder of the law firm Osorio Vargas & Abogados.

A member of the Socialist Party of Chile, between 2015 and 2018 he served as a legal advisor in the Legislative Legal Division of the Ministry General Secretariat of the Presidency. Previously, in 2014, he worked as a lawyer for the Legal Division of the Ministry of the Interior and Public Security.

On 25 January 2023, he was appointed by the Senate of Chile as a member of the Expert Commission, established by Law No. 21.533, responsible for preparing a draft for a new Constitution to be presented to the Constitutional Council. Within the commission, he joined the Subcommission on Political System, Constitutional Reform and Form of State.

Works Historia institucional y dogmática jurídica de los partidos políticos