Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea
Arturo Fernando Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea is a Mexican lawyer who served as a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation from 2009 to 2023. Zaldívar served as president of the Court from 2 January 2019 to 31 December 2022.
Biography
He obtained his law degree at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and completed a Law PhD at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has tenure of second-year Constitutional Law at ELD and is a Graduate School Professor at the same school of Constitutional Law and Constitutional Procedure. He is also a Professor of the Law Faculty at UNAM, the LL.M. program at the Universidad Panamericana, and the LL.B. at Universidad Iberoamericana. He was a member of the commission created by the Supreme Court, in charge of reforming the Ley de Amparo.He was a consultant for the Law division of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México regarding the design of the Graduate Program in Administrative Law and a member of the academic committees of the Instituto de la Judicatura Federal and the Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación.
He held a private practice for 25 years.
He was founder and Vice President of the Instituto Mexicano de Derecho Procesal Constitucional, member of the Mexican division of the directive committee of the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Procesal Constitucional, member of the graduate school counsel of Constitutional Law and Human Rights program at UP, member of the Barra Mexicana-Colegio de Abogados. He is also a member of several Law Review committees and a consultant for various Law Schools and Law Institutes in the country and the region.
He is the author of Hacia una nueva Ley de Amparo and has published more than seventy essays in specialized journals and international publications.