Rate My Professor Ángel Hoyos

Ángel Hoyos, known fully as Ángel Medardo Hoyos Escaleras, is a Docente Ocasional de Derecho Civil in the Carrera de Derecho at the Facultad Jurídica, Social y Administrativa of Universidad Nacional de Loja. He holds a Doctor en Jurisprudencia, Magíster en Derecho Civil y Procesal Civil, Licenciatura en Ciencias Sociales, Políticas y Económicas, and is a licensed Abogado in Ecuador. As an experienced legal educator, he has directed theses for numerous students in the law program, guiding research on topics ranging from family law and procedural issues to constitutional rights and emerging technologies in justice systems. His academic career at Universidad Nacional de Loja underscores a commitment to advancing legal education and scholarship in Ecuador.

Hoyos has contributed significantly to legal literature through several key publications. In 2022, he authored the Manual de derecho procesal no penal procesos de conocimiento, offering a theoretical and practical guide to non-penal procedural processes of knowledge. In 2024, he co-authored SISTEMA DE ADOPCIÓN EN ECUADOR in the Revista de Derecho of Universidad Nacional del Altiplano, analyzing Ecuador's adoption regime with a juridical normative approach and qualitative methodology. The work details administrative phases led by the Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social and judicial processes, prioritizing the child's superior interest, right to family, and right to be heard, while addressing efficiency challenges justified by child protection needs. That same year, he published El impacto de la Inteligencia Artificial en el Derecho Penal in Estudios y Perspectivas Revista Científica y Académica, examining AI's transformative effects on criminal law, including crime prevention, pattern identification, judicial decision-making, risks, and the need for regulation. Earlier, in 2018, his article Prisión preventiva y Estado constitucional de derechos, perspectiva ecuatoriana appeared in Sur Academia, Revista Académica-Investigativa of Universidad Nacional de Loja, discussing pre-trial detention as a coercive measure in the constitutional state of rights, its tensions with fundamental rights like personal liberty, integrity, and presumption of innocence, and the need for precise delimitation under the Código Orgánico Integral Penal. These works demonstrate his expertise in civil procedural law, family rights, penal innovations, and constitutional balances.