Keynote Address: Challenges of Judicial Reform in Mexico Mexican Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío Díaz

Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies
May 27, 2011
8:00 a.m.
Location: UC San Diego, International House, Great Hall
Open to: Public

There is no cost of admission.

Breakfast Provided. Please RSVP for headcount. The talk will be in Spanish with English interpretation provided.

José Ramón Cossío Díaz is currently a Mexican Supreme Court Justice as well as a professor of constitutional law at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). A native of Mexico, José Ramón Cossío Díaz has written widely on diverse topics including constitutional law, law and economics and moral theory. He was a law professor and dean of the law school at ITAM before he became a Supreme Court judge. He obtained a law degree with first-class honors from the Universidad de Colima, a masters in law from the Centro de Estudios Constitucionales in Madrid and a doctorate in law summa cum laude from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. A recipient of many awards, he has lectured, among others, at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the University of Houston, the University of California at San Diego, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Universidad de Chile, the University of Michigan and at Yale and Stanford law schools.

For additional information, call Mr. Greg Mallinger at (858) 822-1696 or e-mail gmallinger@ucsd.edu

Keynote address is part of Crime and Justice in Mexico Workshop.

For more information: http://usmex.ucsd.edu/events/event_20110426.htm