Practice area
We advise companies, investors, and regulated entities on their dealings with Bolivia’s public authorities. Our practice combines regulatory judgment with experienced representation in licensing, administrative proceedings, sanctions, appeals, and contentious-administrative disputes.
Overview
The Administrative practice area is the legal framework within which public administration is carried out. It derives from the need to create and develop a system of public administration under law, a concept that may be compared with the much older notion of justice under law. Since administration involves the exercise of power by the executive arm of government, administrative law is of constitutional and political, as well as juridical, importance.
There is no universally accepted definition of administrative law, but rationally it may be held to cover the organization, powers, duties, and functions of public authorities of all kinds engaged in administration; their relations with one another and with citizens and nongovernmental bodies; legal methods of controlling public administration; and the rights and liabilities of officials.
Organization, powers, duties, and functions of public authorities
Relations between public authorities and with citizens and nongovernmental bodies
Legal methods of controlling public administration
Rights and liabilities of public officials
Administrative procedure and hierarchical remedies
Contentious-administrative litigation
Regulatory authorisations, licences, and permits
Administrative sanction proceedings
21 July 2026
The decree closes the list of deductions that may be applied to public sector salaries. Anything outside the enumerated categories now requires express legal basis or documented individual consent.
1 June 2026
A procedural barrier removed for marketing promotions, and the residual obligations that remain.
8 April 2026
Tighter limits on direct contracting, and what contractors should expect from procurement processes.
La Paz · Santa Cruz · Cochabamba
