Yurixhi Gallardo Martínez is a professor and researcher at the Institute of Humanities at the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus. She is a member of the National System of Researchers (Level I).
She holds a Doctor of Law degree from the Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara campus, which allowed her to earn a Master’s degree in Humanities and Social Sciences from the Universidad Abat Oliba CEU in Barcelona, Spain; she also holds a Master’s degree in the History of Thought from the Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City campus. In addition, she has participated in various educational programs, including those organized by the Institute of Autonomous Studies of the Government of Catalonia and the College of Jalisco, as well as those offered by The Phoenix Institute: Issues in Political Philosophy at Abat Oliba CEU University in Barcelona, Spain; the Summer Program for the Study of Western Institutions at the University of Notre Dame; and Modernity, Relativism, and Cultural Revival at Exeter College, Oxford.
Co-author of *Keys to Understanding Compliance in Mexico* (Tirant lo Blanch, 2024). Editor of *Practical Cases in Ethics for Legal Professionals in Mexico* (Tirant lo Blanch, 2020) and *Mexico and Its Legal System*, published by the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, and Carolina Academic Press (2018). Member of the Board of Directors of the Mexican Bar Association, Jalisco Chapter, A.C. She is a member of the International Association of Legal Ethics. She serves as an academic peer reviewer for the Council for the Accreditation of Legal Education, A.C. (CONAED), where she has evaluated educational institutions in Mexico and Peru.
Her research focuses on legal ethics, compliance, and the teaching of professional ethics—topics she discusses at national and international academic conferences and in various publications. She has participated in international research groups, including one led by Neil W. Hamilton at the Holloran Center for Ethical Leadership in the Professions. She is a guest columnist for the newspapers El Informador and Mural. On the radio, she has served as a commentator on the news program Así las Cosas on W Radio Guadalajara.