Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea

Who is Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea?

Justice Arturo Zaldívar Lelo de Larrea is a Mexican lawyer who has been a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation since December 2009.

He obtained his Law degree at the Escuela Libre de Derecho and completed a Law PhD at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 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, and of the LL.M. program at the Universidad Panamericana. 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, 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.