UP Campus: Mexico City

Professor María de la Luz Casas Martínez earned a master’s degree in Bioethics from Anáhuac University and a Ph.D. in Health Sciences, with a focus on Bioethics, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico in 1995 and 2003, respectively. Since 1996, she has worked at the National Institute of Public Health ( Universidad Panamericana , CDMX), where she has held the rank of Full Professor D in the School of Health Sciences. She is currently a Research Professor at CIBUP and an Honorary Member of the Bioethics Association of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

In addition, she is a member of the National System of Researchers, Level 1 (through Mexico’s National Council for Science and Technology). In 2017, she was awarded the Aesculap National Prize in Bioethics.

His publications include 19 volumes and more than 110 articles, which are contributions to edited volumes, encyclopedias, and journals. His areas of research interest are: Clinical Bioethics, Conscientious Objection, and Transhumanism.

Research Areas

• Bioethics

Leonardo Ruiz Gómez holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana , and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Navarra (recipient of the 2014 Special Thesis Award).

He is currently a Research Professor, Dean of the School of Philosophy at the Universidad Panamericana , and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI-II) of SECIHTI.

He is the author of the book *The Leibnizian Concept of Space: The Controversy with Clarke and Newtonianism* (EUNSA, 2014) and of various scholarly articles.

Research Areas

• Philosophy of Early Modernity and 17th-Century Metaphysics
• Baroque Philosophy
• Philosophy of Nature
• Bioethics
• Philosophy of Science

Doctor of Law and Master of Legal Sciences from the Universidad Panamericana. Law degree from the University of Belgrano, Argentina. Master’s studies in Constitutional Law from the University of Palermo, Argentina. Director of the Department of Graduate Studies in Law from 2007 to 2014 at the Universidad Panamericana. Founder of the Master’s Program in Constitutional Procedural Law at the Universidad Panamericana and Academic Director from 2003 to 2022.

He currently remains affiliated with the program as an associate professor and, in that capacity, is responsible for the program’s ongoing academic improvement. He is currently the editor-in-chief of *Ratio Decidendi*, a journal on constitutional justice published by the Law School of the same university. He is a full-time research professor at the Law School of the University of the Republic ( Universidad Panamericana). He is also a research professor at CIJUREP, part of the Autonomous University of Tlaxcala, in the Master’s Program in Constitutional Law and Constitutional Procedural Law.

At the undergraduate level, he teaches Constitutional Theory and Constitutional Procedural Law. At the graduate level, he teaches Constitutional Theory at the specialization and master’s levels, and in the Doctor of Law program, he teaches the course on Comparative Law. His areas of research include Constitutional Theory, Human Rights, and Constitutional Justice.

His most recent book is *Constitutional Justice and Human Rights: Studies on the Development of Incidental and Ex Officio Judicial Review in Mexico*. Institute of Constitutional Studies of the State of Querétaro. 2023.

He has published more than 15 book chapters and more than a dozen articles on constitutional justice. He has supervised more than 15 bachelor’s theses, 12 master’s theses, and 3 doctoral dissertations. He has served as a visiting professor at the SCJN, the IIJ at UNAM, the TE of the PJF, and other academic institutions such as ITESO.

He serves on doctoral advisory committees at UNAM-CU and the Universidad Michoacana. He is a peer reviewer for scientific journals in Mexico and Latin America. He specializes in the use of the comparative method to generate legal knowledge.

Research Areas

• Constitutional Theory
• Constitutional Justice
• Human Rights

Professor José María Llovet received the degrees of Master and Doctor of Philosophy from UNAM and Universidad Panamericana in 2012 and 2017, respectively. In 2009 he received the award for the best undergraduate thesis from the Asociación Filosófica de México.

Since 2009, he has worked at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana), where he served as a course instructor (2009–2013) and research professor (2014–present). He is currently a Tenured Research Professor (Level C) and Research Secretary at the Institute of Humanities. He is also a Level 1 member of the National System of Researchers. He has scholarly publications indexed in Scopus and a book published by EUNSA. His research focuses on metaphysics and the philosophy of nature in Aristotle.

Research Areas

• Metaphysics
• Philosophy
• Aristotle's Epistemology

Research professor at the School of Communication at the Universidad Panamericana.

He holds a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He also holds a Master’s degree in Social Communication from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana), a certificate in Artificial Intelligence Tools for Social Research from the International Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, a certificate in Digital Journalism from the University of the Basque Country (Spain), and a certificate in Social Research Methodology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

A graduate of the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism.

Full professor of the seminar “Analysis of Virtual Communities and Sociodigital Networks.” He also teaches courses on cyberjournalism, research methodology, network science, data visualization, and big data management.

He directs the Digital Media Observatory and currently coordinates the inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research project “Uses, Dilemmas, and Opportunities of Generative Artificial Intelligence in CONEICC’s Academic Communities.”

Research Areas

• Interactive Digital Communication
• Digital Rhetoric in Election Campaigns on Social Media Platforms
• Communication in the Algorithmic Age
• A Study of Algorithmic Bias, Mediation, and Narrative in Artificial Intelligence Systems

Since November 2020, he has served as Chair of the Governing Board of the National Institute for Higher Education ( Universidad Panamericana ) and IPADE, where he previously served as Rector General. He holds a law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana ) and a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Navarra, where his dissertation, *From the Reason of State to the Reason of the Market*, earned the highest grade. He is a member of the National System of Researchers and CONACYT, and a graduate of IPADE.

He is a tenured professor in the School of Law and the School of Government and Economics at the Universidad Panamericana , where he teaches Administrative Law, General Theory of Politics, Strategy, and Leadership.

Dr. Lozano is a member of the Mexican Academy of Legislation and Jurisprudence. He serves as coordinator of the Ethics Committee of the Illustrious National Bar Association. He received the 2014 “Best of the Legal Profession in Mexico” award for academic merit. He received an honorary doctorate with full academic status and the Decoration of the Mexican Order of Law, Culture, and Peace, awarded by the Mexican Academy of International Law. He was the recipient of the 2018 ANADE Francisco Breña Garduño Award. He received the Ignacio L. Vallarta Award for academic excellence from the National Council of the Legal Profession. He was named an Honorary Member of the University Club. He serves as an independent director for companies in the automotive, education, and financial industries.

Under his leadership, the Schools of Government and Economics and the School of Fine Arts were founded; the three campuses that make up the university were institutionally consolidated; the university’s scientific research output increased significantly, earning it third place in the prestigious QS and The Higher Education rankings; and construction has begun on the new campus of the University of the Pacific ( Universidad Panamericana), Ciudad UP, in the municipality of Huixquilucan, State of Mexico. This is an ambitious project covering more than 300,000 square meters of construction that will include schools, laboratories, a museum, university housing, a business center, and a hospital.

Dr. Lozano is a weekly contributor to Joaquín López Dóriga’s news program. He writes opinion columns for the newspaper El Universal and has contributed to Reforma and Excelsior. For several years, he has had a segment on Oscar Mario Beteta’s radio news program *Los Tiempos*. He has written dozens of articles on public law and management for specialized journals. He has supervised more than a hundred undergraduate and graduate theses and is the author of several books.

Research Areas

• Private law

Dr. Alberto Ross holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the UP, a Master’s degree in Philosophy from UNAM, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Navarra and UNAM. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Centre Léon Robin (University of Paris IV–Sorbonne) and is a graduate of IPADE. Since 1999, he has been a professor in the School of Philosophy, the Institute of Humanities, and the Graduate Program in Law at UP. In 2021, he assumed the directorship of the Institute of Humanities and the presidency of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy. During the 2021–22 academic year, he was a visiting scholar at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Ross is a Level 2 member of CONACYT’s SNI and the author of articles, book chapters, and specialized books in the field of Ancient Philosophy, including the monograph *God, Eternity, and Motion in Aristotle* and the volume *Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition*, co-edited with D. Vázquez as part of Brill’s Plato Studies Series.

Research Areas

• Speculative Philosophy
• Ancient Philosophy in Greece

Research Areas

• The Development of Public Space and Mexican Journalistic Culture
• Media Ecology

Jaime Olaiz González is a research professor of Constitutional Theory, International Law, and U.S. Jurisprudence at the Universidad Panamericana of Universidad Panamericana School of Law, where he has been on the faculty since 1998.

Professor Olaiz-González holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana ), and a master’s degree (LL.M.) and a doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from Yale University. He is a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI). He was a Fulbright-García Robles fellow. He has served as a visiting professor at Fordham Law School, St. Thomas University (Miami, FL), and the University of Graz (Austria). His publications have appeared in Scopus-indexed academic journals such as *Cuestiones Constitucionales* and *Tópicos*, as well as in the *Vienna Journal on International Constitutional Law*.

Research Areas

• Comparative Constitutional Law
• Constitutional amendment
• Role of the Constitutional Judge

He holds a bachelor’s and a doctorate in law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana). He pursued his second doctoral studies, also in law, at the University of Salamanca in Spain, where he completed the Advanced Studies program. He holds a postdoctoral degree from the University of Calabria in Italy, focusing on new technologies, law, and the social sciences. He is a graduate of IPADE’s D-1 program and a specialist in philosophical anthropology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana).

He is currently the vice rector of the Mexico City campus of the Universidad Panamericana. He is the president of the Ibero-American Foundation for Transparency and Access to Information, which operates in 14 countries across the region. He also serves as an advisor to various law firms on data protection matters.

He has served as director general of the Center for Advanced Studies in Administrative and Fiscal Justice at Mexico’s Federal Court of Administrative Justice. He has also served as dean of the School of Government and Economics, director of the Institute for Legal Research at the School of Law, and director of the graduate and undergraduate programs at the School of Government and Economics at the Universidad Panamericana.

He has been a tenured professor of the Right to Information for 21 years and teaches Constitutional Theory at the School of Government and Law, Society, and State in the Law School of the Universidad Panamericana. He also teaches graduate-level courses on topics such as the Right to Privacy, Personal Data Protection, and Transparency and Access to Information at various institutions of higher education throughout the country.

He is the author, editor, and editor-in-chief of 19 books on freedom of information, as well as more than 50 articles and book chapters on the right to information, published in various specialized legal journals and anthologies.

She is a member of Mexico's National System of Researchers.

He has given lectures on the right to information and personal data protection at various national and international forums, and has served as a visiting professor at several universities in Ibero-America.

He has contributed to various mass media outlets on topics related to information law and personal data protection. For five years, he served as content director and host of the television program*Ante la Ley*, broadcast on Mexico’s Judicial Channel. He is currently a columnist for the newspaper*El Economista*.

During the LXII Legislature, he was appointed by an absolute majority as an honorary advisor on Transparency and Access to Information for the Chamber of Deputies of the Honorable Congress of the Union of Mexico.

He was unanimously appointed at the First Mexico City Congress as a member of the Selection Panel of the Citizen Participation Committee of the Mexico City Local Anti-Corruption System.

He was recently appointed to the Legal Advisory Council of the Mexican Academy of Communication and to the Academic Advisory Council of the Mexican Institute for Strategic Studies and National Security of the Armed Forces.

Research Areas

• Freedom of Information and Data Privacy