Alejandro Madrazo

Professor Madrazo obtained an LL.B. from Instituto Technológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) in Mexico City and both an LL.M. ('03) and a J.S.D. ('06) from Yale.  He is currently Professor of Law at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Aguascalientes, Mexico, where he heads the Right to Health Program.  Before becoming a full-time professor in 2009, he practiced constitutional litigation, specializing in high-impact, public interest cases before Mexico's Supreme Court, most notably on abortion law, same-sex marriage, tobacco control, and telecommunications law.  He has published on issues ranging from legal education and history of legal thought, sexual and reproductive rights, tobacco control, drug policy, and free speech.  He currently heads CIDE's incubation of a permanent Drug Policy Program.  He still participates in strategic litigation in collaboration with CIDE's Public Interest Clinic.