Mexico City, June 21, 2022.- The academic excellence of Universidad Panamericana is built, in part, thanks to the prestige of the academics who are part of its faculty. Such is the case of Dr. Edgar Corzo Sosa and Dr. Rodolfo Luis Vigo, professors of the School of LawThey have stood out internationally for their professional careers, which add value to their professorships in the classrooms.
Protecting human rights
Dr. Edgar Corzo Sosa has been a professor at Panamericana for nearly 15 years, where he has taught at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels. For him, the struggle for the protection of human rights is more than a job, it is a passion, as he points out that "helping a person to have his or her violated right repaired or not to have it violated is a source of special satisfaction".
He recently became chairman of the Committee on Migrant Workers and the first Mexican to chair all UN Human Rights Committees .
"This is a source of particular pride and satisfaction for me, as my peers have placed their trust in me to lead the work of the Committee, which I greatly appreciate, as they are people with great professional experience in their countries and even in the United Nations," said Dr. Corzo on his first appointment.
He adds about the second: "(...) being the first Mexican is a great source of pride in my professional career, since I have been dedicated to the study and protection of human rights for more than 30 years (...) I am very excited about this new position and it also represents a great responsibility that I assume with fortitude since, behind me, there is a great country and extraordinary universities where I have been trained and also learned from classes with students".
From these positions, Dr. Corzo will seek to strengthen the protection of human rights in the universal system and, in turn, hopes that they will constitute areas of opportunity for Mexican universities.
"It is my firm intention to make these treaty bodies more visible, to coordinate their activities in the best possible way and to raise the level of protection of human rights. I want to leave the name of our country and the universities I have passed through very high," he says.
Reaping success abroad
Dr. Rodolfo Luis Vigo is amember of the National Academy of Law and Social Sciences of Córdoba and president of the Argentine Association of Philosophy of Law. Hehas published more than 16 books related to ethics, interpretation, natural law and legal argumentation and, in addition to many other functions, he teaches at several universities, including Panamericana.
His relationship with this university started more than 20 yearsago thanks to an event organized by the Austral University of Argentina, in which Dr. Vigo gave a lecture on the Philosophy of Law in the training of jurists.
Dr. Roberto Ibáñez, then Dean of Law, and Dr. Jacinto Valdez, Director of Graduate Studies, invited him to teach at UP. "Since that time I have been coming inexorably every year to UP Mexico (...), even in retirement I have spent research stays of up to three months," explains the doctor.
Currently, the Faculty of Political, Social and Legal Sciences of the Catholic University of Santiago del Estero (UCSE) has awarded him the title of Doctor Honoris Causa, and he has a vast trajectory that speaks for itself. Simply in the years that he has been coming to our country, he has reaped the following awards:
- The creation of a chair with his name in the Judiciary of Tabasco.
- Two Doctorates Honoris Causa, one he received together with Mariano Azuela from the Pontifical Catholic University of Mexico and another one from the National Bar Association of Mexico.
- The institution in 2021 of the "Rodolfo Luis Vigo" Award, conferred by a Committee of distinguished jurists in favor of the most outstanding Latin magistrate.
"Beyond these and other recognitions, the most important thing I have reaped in Mexico is the human quality of so many friends and acquaintances in whom I have always noticed a visible concern to generously and warmly attend to the visitor," explains Dr. Luis Vigo.
Regarding the academic balance of the Panamerican Law School, he indicates: "It is very visible that it is a very prestigious university that is in a permanent attitude of improvement and updating (...) One constant has been to perceive a very orderly operation and in a climate of respect, freedom and dialogue with the authorities and colleagues".
Advice from teachers to their students
Both academics are undoubtedly role models for their students in the Faculty and, although for a student to achieve these accomplishments may seem far away, they have some advice:
"Make the most of your time preparing yourselves academically, since this is the time when you should do it, in the future you will have many opportunities, but the important thing is to be trained to be able to take them. Perhaps they do not see the importance of preparing themselves now, but they must be sure that what they sow now they will reap at some point," says Dr. Corzo.
To which he also adds: "I am sure that with dedication, effort and discipline you can achieve everything you set your mind to, because ability goes hand in hand with the dreams you can make come true".
While Dr. Vigo indicates that a lesson that life has confirmed to him is that "true success is when we have put the greatest effort into carrying out a project where the central issue is the values and their hierarchy. I am convinced that the key that will define the future of humanity is the ethics with which it will conduct itself".
