B.A.
at Law, granted with an honorary mention by the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México (National Autonomous University
of Mexico, UNAM, 1977) and a Master’s Degree by the
University of California, Los Angeles, United States
of America (UCLA, 1979).
He teaches Introduction to the Studies of
Law and is professor ad interim of Constitutional
Law at the Division of Professional Studies of the
School of Law at the same University; at present he
teaches Constitutional Control Systems at the Division
of Post-degree Studies at the same Law School. Additionally,
he has been a member of the National Researchers System,
as well as Researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones
Jurídicas (Institute of Legal Research) of the UNAM
in the area of Constitutional Law.
Likewise, he has taught courses of Consitutional Law,
Philosophy of Law, Compared Law and University Law,
both at a university level and at a post-degree level,
in the same National University as well as in other
universities of the Federal District such as: Escuela
Libre de Derecho (Free School of Law), Universidad
Panamericana (Panamerican University) and at the Instituto
Tecnológico Autónomo de México, (Autonomous Technological
Institute of Mexico, ITAM) as well as in different
states of the Republic.
Amongst
the positions held at the National Autonomous University
of Mexico, UNAM, he has been: General Director of
Judicial Affairs (January, 1989 – September, 1990),
General Director of University Legislation Studies
(March, 1987 – December, 1988), Academic Secretary
(January, 1985 – February, 1987), and Administrative
Secretary (March, 1977 – August, 1978) of the Legal
Research Institute.
He is the author of the books entitled El derecho
constitucional consuetudinario (Consitutional Common
Law) (1983) and Régimen de las relaciones colectivas
de trabajo en las universidades públicas autónomas
(Labor Collective Relations Regime at Autonomous Public
Universities) (1984), both of them have been reprinted.
At the same time, he is co-author of El sistema mexicano
de justicia electoral (The Mexican System of Electoral
Justice) (2000), Derecho electoral (Electoral Law)
(2002) y Los derechos humanos de los mexicanos (Human
Rights of Mexicans (2002). He has been in charge of
coordinating or gathering, amongst others, the following
collective works: Las responsabilidades de los servidores
públicos (Resposabilities of Public Servants) (1984)
Memoria del III Congreso Internacional de Derecho
Electoral (Proceedings of the III International Congress
of Electoral Law) (four volums, 1999), Sistemas de
Justicia Electoral: Evaluación y Perspectivas (Systems
of Electoral Justice: Evaluation and Perspectives
(2001) and La función judicial. Ética y Democracia
(The Judicial Function. Ethics and Democracy (2003).
He is also the author of more than 70 articles published
in national and foreign specialized academic journals.
He has participated in more than 150 national and
international academic events on Constitutional Law,
Electoral Law, Human Rights, Compared Law and Theory
of Law, in twenty different countries both in Europe
as well as in the Americas and Asia.
As of November 1996, he is a Chief Justice of the
High Court of the Electoral Tribunal of the Judicial
Power of the Federation. Previously, he had been Chief
Justice of the Central Court of the, then so called,
Federal Electoral Tribunal (October, 1990 – October,
1996).
