Workshop with Alejandro Madrazo

Constitutional Roundtable

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International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme

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Feminism & Law Workshop Series

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Alejandro Madrazo

Professor of History of Law and Comparative Law,

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) School of Law

Abortion on demand in Mexico City before the Supreme Court

12:30 – 2:00

Friday, January 16, 2009

Dining Room – Flavelle House – 78 Queen’s Park

Alejandro Madrazo practises law in Mexico City, specializing in constitutional litigation before the Supreme Court.  He has been involved in prominent public interest cases, notably in telecommunications law, decriminalization of abortion and, currently, tobacco control. He is Professor at the School of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he teaches Constitutional Law  (currently on leave). He is Visiting Professor for the Spring 2009  semester at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in  Mexico City. He earned an LL.B. from ITAM in 2002, an LL.M. from Yale Law School in 2003, and a J.S.D., also from Yale, in 2006. He has published on topics ranging from legal education and legal culture in Mexico, to tobacco control and constitutional law

A light lunch will be served.

 For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca