Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea

Justice Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea (born August 9, 1959) is a Mexican lawyer who has been a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) since December 2009.^[1]

He obtained his Law degree at the Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD) and completed a Law PhD at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He has tenure of second year Constitutional Law at ELD and is Graduate School Professor at the same school of both Constitutional Law and Constitutional Procedure. He is also Professor of the Law Faculty at UNAM, of the LL.M. program at the Universidad Panamericana (UP), and of the LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) at Universidad Iberoamericana. He was a member of the commission created by the Supreme Court, in charge of reforming the Ley de Amparo (the law concerning the partial judicial review and the protection of the civil rights embedded in the Constitution).

He was a consultant for the Law division of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) regarding the design of the Graduate Program in Administrative Law, member of the academic committees of the Instituto de la Judicatura Federal (Institute of Federal Judicature) and the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación (Federal Electoral Tribunal).

He held a private practice for 25 years.

He was founder and Vice President of the Instituto Mexicano de Derecho Procesal Constitucional (Mexican Institute of Constitutional Procedure), member of the Mexican division of the directive committee of the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Procesal Constitucional (Iberoamerican Institute of Procedural Constitutional Law), member of the graduate school counsel of Constitutional Law and Human Rights program at UP, member of the Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados (Mexican Bar and Advocate’s College). He is also member of several Law Review committees and consultant for a number of Law Schools and Law Institutes in the Country and the region.

He is the author of Hacia una nueva ley de Amparo (Towards a new Ley de Amparo) and has published more than seventy essays in specialized journals and international publications.

Supreme Court Nomination

In 2009 President Felipe Calderón nominated him as a Minister (Associate Justice) of the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy left after the retirement of Genaro David Góngora Pimentel.^[2] Zaldívar was confirmed by the Senate with 90 votes on December 1, 2009.^[3]

References

National Autonomous University of Mexico

Faculties	Engineering Accounting and Administration Architecture Chemistry Economics Law Medicine Odontology Philosophy and Literature Political and Social Sciences Psychology Sciences Veterinarian Medicine

FES	Acatlán Aragón Cuautitlán Iztacala Zaragoza

Schools	Arts Music Nursery and Obstetrics Social Work National Preparatory School

Centres	Cinematographic Studies DGSCA Centro de Relaciones Internacionales (CRI)

Institutes	Applied Mathematics and Systems Research Institute Aesthetics Research Institute Engineering Institute

Buildings	Central Library

Facilities	Ciudad Universitaria (Main Campus) Olympic Stadium Radio UNAM (AM, FM) teveunam National Observatory Kan Balam (Super Computer)

History	Royal and Pontifical University of Mexico National Autonomous University of Mexico 1999 Students Strike

Alumni	Alumni Astronomical Society

Professors and researchers	Axel Didriksson Luis E. Miramontes Francisco Gil Villegas Miguel Ángel Mancera Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea Fernando Quevedo Francisco González de la Vega Antonio Lazcano

Sports	Football club Pumas Dorados de la UNAM

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