Work experience
2020 to date
Partner of the Firm "Hernández - Romo & Ochoa"
2018 - 2020
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic
Deputy Attorney Generals Office for Regional Control, Criminal Procedures and Amparo.
Position: Head of the deputy attorney.
2016 -2018
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic.
Coordination of Planning, Development and Institutional Innovation.
Position: Head of the General Coordination.
Since 2013
National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Legal Research Institute.
2011 - 2013
Free School of Law.
Center for Legal Research and Informatics.
Position: Full-time tenured researcher.
Aug - Nov 2011
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic.
Office of the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Investigation.
Specialized Kidnapping Investigation Unit.
Position: General Coordinator.
May - Aug 2010
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic.
Office of the Special Prosecutor for Organized Crime Investigation.
Specialized Kidnapping Investigation Unit.
Position: Special Prosecutor.
Jan - May 2010
Mexican Social Security Institute.
Legal Address. Labor Coordination.
Position: Head of the Labor Investigations Regulatory Division.
2008 - 2009
Lawyer at the "Hernández-Romo" Law Firm.
Criminal Law Area.
Mexico, Federal District, Mexico.
2007 - 2008
Ministry of Finance of the Government of the
Federal District.
Federal District Attorney's Office.
Position: Deputy Attorney for Criminal Matters.
2005 - 2006
H. City Council of Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo.
Municipal General Secretariat.
Position: Municipal Legal Director.
2000 - 2001
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic.
Office of the Deputy Attorney for Criminal Procedures "C".
State Delegation in Quintana Roo.
Position: Subdelegate of Criminal Procedures "B".
1999 - 2000
Office of the Attorney General of the Republic.
Office of the Deputy Attorney for Criminal Procedures "C".
Position: Advisor to the Deputy Attorney for Criminal Procedures "C".
1998 - 1999
Federal District Attorney General's Office.
Legal and Human Rights Office.
General Legal-Consultative Directorate.
Position: Professional of specialized services.
1997 - 1998
Ministry of Finance of the Government of the
Federal District.
Federal District Attorney's Office.
Position: Deputy Attorney for Criminal Matters.
1995 - 1997
Chamber of Deputies of the H. Congress of the Union. LVI Legislature. Culture Commission.
Position: Advisor to the President of the Commission.
Education
2003 - 2014
Doctorate in Law. Studies of Criminal and Criminological Sciences. Complutense University of Madrid. (Madrid Spain)
2001 - 2003
Master of Laws. Studies of Criminal and Criminological Sciences. Complutense University of Madrid. (Madrid Spain)
2000
Diploma in Criminal Procedure Law. University of Postgraduate Studies in Law (Mexico City, MX)
1999
Law degree from the Universidad Iberoamericana (Mexico City, MX)
Research
summer 2002
Research stay, Istituto di Scienze Giuridiche “Antonio Cicu”.
University of the Studi of Bologna (Bologna, Italy)
2011-2012
Research stay, Department of Civil, Criminal and Procedural Law.
University of Cordoba (Cordoba, Spain)
teaching
2003 - 2004
Honorary collaborator of the Department of Criminal Law of the Complutense University of Madrid.
Madrid Spain.
2004 - 2013
Professor and researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico.
2004 - 2007
Academic Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo. Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
2004 - 2007
Professor by subject of the Law Degree and the Criminal Law Specialty of the Latin American Scientific University of Hidalgo.
Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
since 2004
Member of the Editorial Committee of the Legal Studies Division of the Ciénega University Center. University of Guadalajara. Ocotlan, Jalisco, Mexico.
2005 - 2007
Member of the Institutional Committee for Teaching Evaluation of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.
Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico
2006
Member of the College of Professors of Postgraduate Studies of the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico.
2006 - 2007
Head of the Academic Area of Law and Jurisprudence of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo.
Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico.
2008 - 2012
Professor by subject of the Law Degree of the Universidad Panamericana, Campus DF
Federal District, Mexico.
since 2011
Professor of the subject "Constitutional criminal procedural law", of the Law School at the Escuela Libre de Derecho. Federal District, Mexico.
2011 - to date
Honorary collaborator of the Department of Civil, Criminal and Procedural Law of the University of Córdoba.
Cordoba, Spain.
since 2012
Postgraduate professor at the National Institute of Criminal Sciences (INACIPE). Federal District, Mexico.
Courses and Subjects Taught
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Criminal Executive Law
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Federal Criminal Procedures
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penology
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Criminal Law
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Particular Crime Seminar
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Special Crimes
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Attempt and Frustration
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Special serious crimes
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Trends and perspectives around organized crime
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The Theory of Crime according to the classical and neoclassical system
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General notions of Crime Theory
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Criminal law with a gender perspective
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Tax Criminal Law
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Resources in criminal matters
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Special criminal procedures
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Organized crime
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Crime Theory
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Criminal liability in environmental matters
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Authorship and participation in drug dealing crimes
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due process
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Constitutional Procedural Law
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federal crimes
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Criminal policy
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Criminal Law Theory
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Extinction of ownership and abandonment of assets
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Theory of the attempt
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Ordinary and military federal penal legislation
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Crimes of operations with resources of illicit origin
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Criminal Forensic Practice
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Criminal investigation in money laundering
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Criminal investigation in organized crime, drug trafficking and terrorism
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The crime of bribery in the public and private sphere
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Procedural aspects of the Mexican justice system
Publications
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Article: "About the criminal responsibility of lawyers in the Federal Criminal Code of the United Mexican States"; published in the magazine Cuadernos de Política Criminal, (Institute of Criminology of the Complutense University of Madrid), number 78, 2002.
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Article: “Brief note in relation to the evolution of the normative concept of guilt. Special reference to the thought of Reinhard Frank and Edmund Mezger”; published in the magazine Cuadernos de Política Criminal, (Institute of Criminology of the Complutense University of Madrid), number 78, 2002.
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Book: Criminal Justice and Collaboration with the Authority, Ed. Ángel Editor, Mexico, 2006.
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Article: “Reflections on the concept of Organized Crime and on some current criminal organizations”; published in the international Colombian journal Contemporary Criminal Law, number 21, October-December 2007.
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Chapter in book: "The hypotheses of attenuation and remission of the penalties provided for the crime of bribery of individuals in the Penal Code for the State of Hidalgo"; in the book Topics of criminal justice of the State of Hidalgo, AA.VV., Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, 2007.
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Article: “On the so-called “Gender Violence” in Mexico: Special reference to the case of Ciudad Juárez”; published in co-authorship with Dr. Rogelio Barba Álvarez, in the electronic journal Letras Jurídicas, law journal of the Centro Universitario de la Ciénega, of the University of Guadalajara, number 5, fall 2007.
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Article: "The unjustified differentiated treatment of criminal exemption in the CPDF's patrimonial field"; published in co-authorship with Dr. Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia, in the Criminal Defense magazine. The strategy of the procedure, year 1, number 2, April 2008.
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Article: “The negotiation of criminal responsibility in the field of organized crime. The case of the repentant collaborator of Justice”; published in the Ars Iuris magazine of the Pan-American Institute of Jurisprudence, Mexico, Federal District, number 40, 2008.
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Article. “The criminal protection of the Public Treasury of the Federal District”; published in the journal Criminogenesis, number 3, 2008.
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Article: “The inequity of the total remission of the sentence and of the acquittal excuse in the property crimes of the CPDF”; prepared in co-authorship with Dr. Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia and published in the Ars Iuris magazine of the Pan-American Institute of Jurisprudence, Mexico, Federal District, number 42, 2009.
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Chapter in book: "On the concept and origins of organized crime"; in the book Legal Essays I, published by the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Academic Area of Law and Jurisprudence, 2009.
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Article: "Function of the sentence and prison crisis in Mexico"; published in the journal Criminogenesis, number 4, 2009.
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Book (co-author): Fundamentals of Mexican Criminal Law, TI Chapter: "The penalty: concept, function and purposes." Co-authors: Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia and Maydelí Gallardo Rosado, Ed. Porrúa, Mexico, 2009.
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Article: "Notes on the unjustified differentiated treatment of criminal exemption in the property field of the Penal Code for the Federal District." Co-author: Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia; published in Cintéotl, electronic journal of Social Sciences and Humanities of the Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, number 9, September-December 2009.
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Article: "The so-called penal constitutional reform and the insertion of the privilege regime for the repentant collaborator with justice"; published in the General Criminal Law Magazine, Editorial Iustel, Spain, number 13, May 2010. This article has also been published in the Criminogenesis magazine, number 7, 2010.
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Book: The justification of punishment, Ed. Porrúa-Universidad Panamericana, Mexico, 2010.
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Book (co-author): Fundamentals of Mexican Criminal Law, T. II. Chapters: "The directing of the custodial sentence to the resocialization of the author" and "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading punishment". Co-authors: Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia, Alfredo Haro Goñi and José Abel Flores Ramírez. Ed. Porrúa-Free School of Law, Mexico, 2011.
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Article: “The incrimination of preparatory acts and inappropriate attempts in the Criminal Code for the State of Hidalgo (CPH)”; published in the Journal of Legal Research of the Escuela Libre de Derecho, year 35, number 35, Mexico, 2011.
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Chapter in book: "The principle of presumption of innocence as a limit for the evidentiary assessment of the incriminating statements of the so-called "collaborating witnesses", in the volume of Criminal Procedural Law of the Encyclopedic Legal Work (Homage to the Free School of Law in its First Centenary), AA.VV., Porrúa-Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico, 2012.
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Book: The illegal deprivation of liberty. Special reference to the criminal types contained in the General Law to Prevent and Punish Kidnapping Crimes, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Mexico, 2012.
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Chapter in book: "The gender issue in criminal law"; elaborated in co-authorship with Dr. Elvira Hernández Carballido and published in the book Theoretical-Legal Budgets for the protection and Justiciability of Gender Transversality in the Mexican State, AA.VV., Autonomous University of the State of Hidalgo, Mexico, 2012. Also in Ochoa Romero/Uribe Manríquez (Coordinators), The criminal protection of life from a gender perspective, Flores Editor, Mexico, 2013.
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Article: "The unnecessary provision of the crime of kidnapping in the Federal Penal Code", published in the First Monograph of the Journal of Legal Research of the Escuela Libre de Derecho (works in homage to its first centenary), number 36, Mexico, 2012 .
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Article: “The elevation to constitutional status of the benefits for collaboration with the authority in the field of organized crime”; published in “Diritto e Processo”, Legal Yearbook of the Università degli Studi di Perugia. Perugia, Italy, 2012.
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Chapter in book: “The benefits for collaboration with the authority in the field of organized crime. The state of the matter after the constitutional reform of 2008”; in Ochoa Romero/Hernández-Romo (Coordinators), Criminal studies in homage to Professor Javier Alba Muñoz, AA.VV., Tirant lo Blanch-Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico, 2013.
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Book (co-author): Crimes committed by public servants against the administration of justice. Co-author: Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch-IIJ UNAM-INACIPE, Mexico, 2013.
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Chapter in book: “Again on the attenuation and remission of the sentence in the crime of bribery of individuals. Its treatment in the Criminal Code for the State of Hidalgo”; in Estrada Michel/Hernández-Romo (Coordinators), Legal History. Studies in honor of Professor Francisco De Icaza Dufour, AA.VV., Tirant lo Blanch, Mexico, 2013.
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Chapter in a book: “Mexican criminal policy on organized crime”; in González Rus (Director), Organized Crime, AA.VV., Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2014.
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Book: Constitutionality of the figures of protected witness and collaborating witness, Ed. Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation-Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, collection "Relevant Decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation", number 71, Mexico, 2014.
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Chapter in book: “The responsibility of legal persons in Mexican criminal law. Special reference to its regulation in the Federal Criminal Code and in the Criminal Code for the Federal District”; in Palma Herrera Director), González Tapia (Coordinator), Standard operating procedures and criminal liability of legal entities, AA. VV., Ed. Dykinson, Madrid, 2014.
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Book (co-author): Compendium of Mexican Criminal Law. Co-authors: Pablo Hernández-Romo Valencia, José Luis González Cussac and José Hernández Estrada, Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Mexico, 2014 (2nd ed., 2016).
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Chapter in book: "The punitive treatment of drug dealing in Mexico"; in Vidales Rodríguez (Coordinator), Drug trafficking and related crime, AA.VV., Ed. Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia, 2014.
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Chapter in book: "Criteria of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights on the classification of illicit conduct"; in the book Inter-American Human Rights Criteria and Jurisprudence: Influence and Repercussion on Criminal Justice; García Ramírez/González Mariscal Islands (Coordinators); Ed. IIJ-UNAM, 2014.
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Chapter in book (co-author): "Epistemological approaches to legal research and teaching in its contemporary dimension"; in Book tribute to Jorge Witker. Co-author: José Luis Gómez Tapia, Ed. IIJ-UNAM, 2014.
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Chapter in book: “Detention in flagrante delicto and for urgent cases in the National Code of Criminal Procedures”; in the book The National Code of Criminal Procedure. Studies; García Ramírez/González Mariscal Islands (Coordinators); Ed. IIJ-UNAM, 2015.
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Book (co-author): Basis and meaning of opportunity criteria Co-author: Joaquín Merino Herrera, Ed. INACIPE, México, 2015.
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Book: The geographical location, in real time, of mobile communication equipment, Ed. Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation-Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico, collection "Relevant Decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation”, number 82, Mexico, 2015.
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Book (co-author): Media and human trafficking for the purpose of prostitution or other forms of sexual exploitation, collection "Notebooks of Research in Development", Co-author: Adriana González Veloz, Ed. UNAM, Mexico, 2015.
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Article: "The responsibility of legal persons in the Federal Criminal Code"; published in the Criminalia magazine, (dissemination organ of the Mexican Academy of Criminal Sciences), year LXXXII-2, New era, 2015.
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Book: Drug dealing crimes. Ed. Tirant lo Blanch-IIJ UNAM, Mexico, 2016.
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Chapter in book: “Again on the attenuation and remission of the sentence in the crime of bribery of individuals. Its treatment in the Penal Code for the state of Hidalgo”, in the book Tribute to Professor Mario Houed, (in the process of being edited), 2017.
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Chapter in book: "From the illegal deprivation of liberty to the so-called kidnapping crimes", in the book Evolution of the penal system in Mexico. Three quarters of a century; García Ramírez/González Mariscal Islands (Coordinators); New System Collection, Ed. IIJ-UNAM, INACIPE, Mexico City, 2016.
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Chapter in book: "What's next in law enforcement in Mexico?", in the book Letters to a young operator of the new criminal justice system. INACIPE, Mexico City, (in training) 2017.
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Chapter in book: “Corruption. Meaning and international and national strategies for its prevention and prosecution”, in the book How to fight corruption?, Salazar Ugarte/Ibarra Palafox/Flores (Coordinators), Ed. IIJ-UNAM, Mexico, 2017.
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Chapter in book: “Attorney General of the Republic”; in the book "Criminal System and Constitution (1917-2017). Between the norm and reality”; García Ramírez/González Mariscal Islands/Adato Green (Coordinators); Ed. IIJ-UNAM, INACIPE, Mexico City, 2018.
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Book: Manual on crimes in particular. Select topics. Ed. Economic Culture Fund, IIJ-UNAM, Mexico City, 2018.
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Chapter in a book: "Crimes against health in its form of Narcomenudeo"; in the book Desafíos en el Panorama Penal Mexicano”, Ed. IIJ-UNAM, sent for publication in 2019.
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Article: "Essay on substantive penal unification in Mexico"; published in the Criminalia magazine, (dissemination organ of the Mexican Academy of Criminal Sciences), Ed. Ubijus, year LXXXVI-1, New Era, Mexico, 2019.
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Chapter in book: "Legislative background of the current regulation on roots and collaboration with justice", in the book Challenges of the accusatory penal system", Co-authors: Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez - Jorge Witker, Ed. IIJ-UNAM, Mexico, 2019.
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Chapter in book: “Two special modalities of illegal deprivation of liberty: kidnapping and forced disappearance”; sent for publication in the book 20 years of the Conference on Criminal Justice, Ed. IIJ-UNAM (projected for 2022).
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Chapter in book: “The regime for the prosecution of electoral crimes”, in the book General Law on Electoral Crimes. Commented; De Hoyos Colofón, G./Astudillo, C. (coordinators), Mexico City, 2021.
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Book: The crimes of counterfeiting, alteration and destruction of currency in the Federal Criminal Code, sent for opinion at the IIJ-UNAM, Mexico City, 2021.
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Article: “The need for a national criminal justice procurement model for Mexico”, sent for publication in the book Tribute to Dr. Sergio García Ramírez, Salazar Ugarte, P./Franco Martín del Campo, ME/Zepeda Lecuona, G. (coordinators), Ed. IIJ-UNAM, Mexico, 2022.
Institutions to which it belongs and distinctions
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Recognition of degree work. Awarded by the Universidad Iberoamericana, AC, Federal District, Mexico, 1999.
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Honorary Contributor. Department of Criminal Law of the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain, during the 2003-2004 academic year.
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Level I National Researcher (2010-2013/2014-2017). National System of Researchers of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT).
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Member of the Research Group: "Standardized Operating Procedures and Criminal Responsibility of Legal Entities", registration DER2010-16569 (JURI Subprogram), coordinated by the University of Córdoba, Spain.
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Honorary collaborator. Department of Civil, Criminal and Procedural Law of the University of Córdoba, Spain, during the 2011-2012/2013-2014/2014-2015/2015-2016 courses.
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Foreign Associate Member of the American Bar Association since 2011 (registration 1944971).
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Scholarship holder of the Consortium of Mexican Universities (CUMex) for teaching mobility abroad (postdoctoral stay). 2011-2012.
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Member of the CONACYT Registry of Accredited Evaluators (RCEA) in Area 5 “Social and Economic”.
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Member of the Research Group: "Drug trafficking and related crime", registration DER2011-29945 (JURI Subprogram), coordinated by the Universitat Jaume I, Castellón, Spain.
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Editorial advisor of the magazine specialized in Criminology and Criminal Law “Criminogenesis”.
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Member of the research project: "The application process of opportunity criteria". SETEC/INACIPE, 2012.
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Supernumerary academic of the Mexican Academy of Criminal Sciences (2015-2019), and full academician as of 2019.
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Member of the International Association of Criminal Law (AIDP) (since April 2016).
