Nadia Noemí Franco Bazán

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name = Nadia Noemí Franco Bazan


caption = Nadia in Dublin, April 2008

Nadia Noemí Franco Bazán (born April 15, 1977) is a Panamanian lawyer, writer and professor. She was born in Grenoble, France as the first of two children of Hernando Joaquín Franco Muñoz and his wife Yolanda Bazán de Franco.

Franco Bazán attended the Instituto Panamericano (IPA) in Panama. The young Nadia studied Law at the Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Políticas, Universidad de Panamá.

In 2000 she moved to Spain, Salamanca to studied a Phd in Criminal Law and a Master in Legal Practice at Universidad de Salamanca. During the first year in Salamanca she met her husband Colum O'Laighin, whom she married in 2006.

Nadia moved to Panama in 2004. She workes as a evening Professor from 2004 to 2005 at Centro Regional de San Miguelito (CRUSAM) of the Universidad de Panamá. Franco Bazán also worked with the Universidad de Panamá as an investigator in the Instituto de Criminología. Nadia workes as a Criminology Professor Universidad del Istmo (UDI) and as Attorney Law in Caja de Seguro Social from 2005 to 2006.

Franco Bazán moved to Dublin, Ireland in 2006.

Bibliography

*"La Discriminación de la Mujer para el Empleo es un Crimen" (1999)
*"Perfil de la Reclusa Panameña" (2000)
*"Aproximación a los Cien Años de Criminología en Panamá" (2005)" (coowriter with Marcela Marquez and Aida Selles de Palacios)"