2019Annual Report

Transforming legal education in Mexico

A message from our director

Who we are

CEEAD team

Law Schools in Mexico

LLB programs in Higher Education Institutions

Tools for diagnosis and evaluation

Trainings

Educational resources

Special events

Research and dissemination

Advisory board

Finances

Where are we headed?

Acknowledgments

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Dear friends of CEEAD:

It is a great pleasure to share with you our report for 2019, in which we present new proj-ects, progress, and achievements.

This year we start a new institutional decade and we would like to assert our commitment to continue working to transform legal education in Mexico from several fronts.

One of them is the consolidation of the Criminal Justice System through the design and strengthening of educational process and professionalization of justice operators.

We also continued contributing to the learning of student body with the second gen-eration of CEEAD Semilla Program and Expo CEEAD which took place this year in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

We continued promoting reflection and debate with the fourth edition of the CEEAD Con-gress on Legal Education at San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas.

Finally, and in response to the needs of our surroundings, we focused on issues relat-ed to ethics and professional responsibility, human rights, and gender perspective in our educational resources. These have been shared through pedagogical workshops, virtual trainings at Aula CEEAD and in-person workshops.

Being able to reach our goals and contribute to law teaching has been made possible thanks to your participation and support. We wholeheartedly thank the institutions in Mex-ico and abroad that have trusted us with their donations. We thank those with whom we have reinforced our alliances, established bonds and developed projects together.

We hope we can count on your support to continue transforming legal education in Mexico.

All the best,

Luis Fernando Pérez Hurtado

General Director luisph@ceead.org.mx

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Who weare

The Center for the Studies on Law Teaching and Learning (Centro de Estudios sobre la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje del Derecho, A.C. in Spanish) (CEEAD) is an independent, non-profit institution dedicated to the research, development, implementation, and evaluation of initiatives to transform legal education and the professional practice of Law.

Our purpose is to contribute to the consolidation of the rule of law, democracy, and social justice in Mexico through the preparation of technically competent, ethical legal profes-sionals who are committed to their environment.

CEEAD:

Is not a law school, and it does not offer a Law DegreeIt is not an accrediting body for law schoolsIt is not a part of any university or institutionDoes not work with a single type of educational institution or in just one region of the countryIt is a private nonprofit organizationIts financing relies on donations and it does not depend on a single financier

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CEEAD Team

Abigail Garza Serna • Adriana Cuéllar Ramos • Aída María Flores Moya • Aldo Mauricio Ferrari Belmont • Ana Fernanda Flores Castillo • Ana Luna Serrano • Ángel Orlando Rivera Segovia • Areli Herrera Martínez • Arturo Trinidad Alemán Molina • Beatriz Eugenia Carrales Rivera • Beatriz Guadalupe Muñoz Hurtado • Blanca Deny Jiménez Arteaga • Blanca Gloria Montemayor Morín • Carlos Al-fredo Paredes Flores • Cecilia Margarita Moreira Loera • Cynthia Pamela Ovalle Saldaña • Daniela Leonides Alvarado Arias • David Alejandro Jiménez Padilla • David Oswaldo Martínez Martínez • Dimna Mirelle Rodríguez García • Eduardo Román González • Erick Paredes Rodríguez • Erika Marlene Canché Góngora • Fatima Cantú Acosta • Gabriela García Jiménez • Gabriela Talancón Villegas • Hedilberto Rivera Villegas • Iván Rodrigo Cantú Arámbula • Jazmín Alejandra Leija Martínez • Jesús Ibaldi Licea Reyes • José de Jesús Rivas Arias • Jorge Francisco Rosado Alanís • José Rogelio Contreras Melara • Juan Diego Nava Gu-tiérrez • Julieta Martin del Campo Núñez • Leticia Pelcastre Villafuerte • Lila Zai-re Flores Fernández • Liliana Elizabeth Montes Herrera • Liliana Karina Ramírez Zúñiga • Luis Fernando Pérez Hurtado • Luis Miguel Reyna Jiménez • Lydia María Cavazos Almaguer • Marcela Hortensia Barrio Olivas • María de Jesús Martínez Vázquez • María Denisse Santoyo Hernández • Mariana Cuautli Rojas • Mauri-cio Martínez Garza • Miguel Ángel Jaramillo García • Mizden Gisselle Franco de Mata • Moramay Guerra García • Neri Catalina Zambrano Ruelas • Olga Isabel Lugoleos Cano • Olivia Tapia Hernández • Patricia Pozos Bravo • Paulina Sánchez Valdivia • Reyna Margarita Cruz Leija • Rosalba Georgina González Ramos • Sa-mantha Carrillo Aguirre • Sara Margarita Torres Velázquez • Sergio Iván Anzola Rodríguez • Siania Mariely Cobos Coello • Sofía Flores Sentíes • Sofía Victoriana Ríos Valdez • Valeria Rodríguez Gutiérrez • Vanessa Montoya González • Verónica Venegas Gómez • Violeta Montes de Oca Sánchez • Xavier Moyssen Álvarez • Xo-chitl Rivera Bautista • Yesenia Barrón Mata • Yolanda Edith Leyva Barajas

Law Schools in MexicoHigher Education Institutions (HEIs) that o�er a Bachelor of Laws (LLB)

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Law Schools by state

Academic Term 2019 - 2020

Estado de MéxicoPueblaCiudad de MéxicoVeracruzGuanajuatoChiapasJaliscoBaja California

QuerétaroOaxacaSan Luis PotosíChihuahuaQuintana RooSinaloaYucatánNayarit

Michoacán de OcampoMorelosNuevo LeónSonoraCoahuila de ZaragozaTamaulipasHidalgoGuerrero

TabascoAguascalientesDurangoColimaCampecheTlaxcalaZacatecasBaja California Sur

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Law Schools by state

2016 - 2017 2017 - 2018 2018 - 2019 2019 - 20202015 - 2016

new Law Schools every week

The average growth this academic term is

HEI increase per each academic term

9 %177Public HEIs

91 %1777Private HEIs

HEI

Without new or advanced students230 definitely closed

148 temporarily closedWithout students or registering periods, but it is possible to reactivate it

active and regularThey welcome students every school period

active on demandThey welcome students only when there are enough candidates

in a closing processIt still has students, but it will close as soon as the last class graduates

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Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programsin Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in Mexico

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by semesters31%

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CHARACTERISTICS OF LLB PROGRAMS

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Tools for diagnosis andevaluation

CEEAD ObservatoryCEEAD Observatory is a diagnosis tool that gathers, analyzes, and generates information regarding the state of legal education in Mexico, especially on the teaching of the Criminal Justice System. It also provides participating schools with recommendations and tools to strengthen their teaching models and methods.

This year, the first stage of the Observatory was completed. After this, a special application was done in Chihuahua. In total, during this stage the participants were:

We develop tools for diagnosis and evaluation to find out how law is taught and practiced in Mexico. This lets us identify areas for improvement, and then, implement strategies for effective changes.

We acknowledge their interest and eagerness towards this project, as well as their commitment to openness, transparency, and improvement in law education.

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www.observatorioceead.mx

All the information related to the Observatory can be found at

We also worked on the design of the second stage of the Observatory, which will be applied on the first semester of 2020.

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45%are women

55%are men

119in June

122in November

of the seventh test approved

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EXSIPAThe EXSIPA Proficiency in Law Exam assesses the academic knowledge and skills related to aforementioned system, in order to allow law students as well as anyone interested in the matter to identify their strengths and areas for improvement. The exam was developed under National Center of Evaluation for Higher Education (CENEVAL) methodology, so it provides the examinees a broad picture of their formation in relation to a nationwide standard.

In 2019 we carried out the seventh and eighth EXSIPA, which were taken by:

» Centro de Ciencias Jurídicas de Puebla » Centro de Estudios Superiores de Tlaxcala » Instituto Superior Autónomo de Occidente, A.C. » Poder Judicial del Estado de Chihuahua » Universidad Autónoma de Baja California Sur, at

Cabo San Lucas » Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León » Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán » Universidad Cuauhtémoc, at Aguascalientes » Universidad de Tijuana » Universidad del Atlántico, at Reynosa » Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango » Universidad Más Educación y Enseñanza » Universidad Veracruzana

13 Institutions hosted the exam:

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Certification for Justice en MexicoThe Certification for Justice en Mexico (CEJUME) project seeks to contribute to the consolidation of the Criminal Justice System through the strengthening of educational and professionalization processes of its operators. That through the design and implementation of an educational model and the skills and knowledge assesment to achieve an institutional competency certification as public prosecutors, public defenders, legal advisors for victims, mediators, and trainers.

During 2019, we worked in the development of the knowledge of the Criminal Justice System gener-al exam EXMIDA along with CENEVAL. This test assesses the following areas: crime theory, criminal procedure, trial techniques, and human rights. Likewise, a preparation course was designed. It is available at Aula CEEAD platform (aulaceead.mx).

We collaborated with partner organizations to design the evaluation instrument for public defenders and mediators. We also approached our local representatives network, extending across 25 states, and generated several collaboration networks to achieve the acceptance and implementation of this project.

CEJUME foresees the development of 8 assessments as well as the preparation courses for them.

First reunion with local representatives

1300 operators participated in the first edition of the course.

165 people from law institutions, academic institutions, civil society, and private practice helped us design the skill assessment tools for agents of the Public Prosecution Office, public defenders, mediators and trainers.

13 organizations of civil society joined in the design and construction of political will.

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CEEAD Semilla ProgramCEEAD Semilla Program is a collaboration network that helps build political will to implement CE-JUME. In June 2019, the first graduation ceremony for the 57 students of the first generation took place in Mexico City. Staff from CENEVAL, TOJIL association, and Roberto Hernández, the documentary mak-er of Presunto Culpable, participated in a discussion panel to develop the skills of the students.

In October, the second generation, composed of 64 students in 32 states, had its first in-site session in Gua-dalajara. During this event, the students got to know about a methodology to generate indicators that allow them to monitor and follow-up the functioning of the Criminal Justice System.

This way, CEEAD Semilla Program contributes to the training of students from Mexican law schools, espe-cially in terms of their development of essential skills for professional practice.

First generation of CEEAD Semilla Program Members of the second generation

630 operators of the justice system took the examen on December 7.

The prosecution offices of Nuevo León, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, Sonora, and Zacatecas participated along with the Public Defender’s Office of Chihuahua.

EXMIDA application

Institutions that collaborated as hosts for the exam:

» Instituto de Formación y Actualización Judicial de Chihuahua

» Universidad Autónoma de Durango, at Zacatecas

» Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León » Universidad de Sonora » Universidad de Tangamanga, at Saucito » Universidad La Salle de Oaxaca » Universidad Marista de San Luis Potosí » Universidad Regiomontana

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TrainingsWe have developed virtual and in-site workshops and courses that welcome the academic community of higher education institutions, operators, and any person that wants to expand their knowledge and develop their competencies.

For these trainings, we have created teaching materials (guidelines, manuals, and books) that contrib-ute to the development of the competencies of the participants and the exchange of experiences and best teaching practices. They are available on our website to be downloaded for free.

Good Practices Workshop for the Teaching of Law and Criminal Justice System

We train law school staff to acquire new tool kit to be use in their classes. We approach matters such as learning styles, competency-based learning, academic planning, among other useful aspects for the teaching of law in general and the Criminal Justice System in particular.

In 2019, we had 4 trainings in 6 institutions in Veracruz, Sonora, Campeche, and San Luis Potosí. There were 108 teachers who are in charge of subjects directly and indirectly related to the Criminal Justice System.

Professional Ethic Workshop for the Public Prosecutors Office

We shared educational resources and talked about the importance of ethics in civil service with people who operate in the public prosecution offices.

There were over 80 participants, with Law schools professors from Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP), members of the Public Prosecutors Office of San Luis Potosí (PGJESLP) and expert services staff.

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Aula CEEAD is an online training platform aimed to those who teach law and form part of the justice system of our country. Its purpose is to promote professionalization of justice operators, as well as to strengthen the law teaching competencies of instructors.

In 2019 we worked on the restructuring and updating of the platform in order to provide a better brows-ing experience for users.

These are the courses that were offered this year:

» Criminal Justice System Basic Teaching Techniques » Preparation Course for the EXMIDA Evaluation » Criminal Procedure in the Oral Adversarial Criminal Justice System

teaching techniques » Human Rights Teaching Methodologies I » Alternative Dispute Resolution » Educational Practices for Law Teaching in the Digital Era » Trial advocacy teaching techniques

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Course of Ethics and Professional Responsability

Our research team shared the best practices and CEEAD’s proposal during this course that focused on the Criminal Justice System and took place in Merida, Yucatán. We were able to share our vision and the importance of this subject with students, teachers, and directors of Universidad Marista de Mérida, A.C.

We also held forums, discussion groups, and sensibilization talks with law students and teachers of Uni-versidad Autónoma de Chihuahua (UACH), Universidad La Salle Chihuahua (ULSA), and Instituto Tecnológi-co y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, at Chihuahua, during which we presented the book Curso de Ética y Responsabilidad Profesional en el Sistema de Justicia Penal.

In Aula CEEAD I learned the traditional teaching method of having a classroom and a teacher that tries to convince students without moving from their chair is obsolete and inefficient for times like these.

Jorge Romo Elizondo Professor at Centro de Ciencias Jurídicas de Puebla A.C.

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In 2019 there were:

4 from Peru

6721 from Mexico

6725 participants

Training for teachers in Sonora

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Educationalresources

We developed materials to allow the teaching staff of law schools to have different tools at their dis-posal to strengthen specific areas of their practice and to support institutions to enrich their curricula.

Basic concepts of the New Criminal Justice System for Courts Administrators SyllabusWe presented the academic community of areas such as Management, Industrial Engineering, and Ac-counting (among others) a syllabus they can incorporate to their study plans. It develops the necessary knowledge and skills to perform different functions in terms of managing courts.

This syllabus is the third one in a series we developed within the project “Universities as Key In-stitutions in the Consolidation of the New Criminal Justice System (NCJS): Institutionalizing capaci-ty-building programs”.

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VideosWe concluded 2019 with the publication of a series of 20 videos on the best practices for the teaching of the Criminal Justice System that focus both on the legal education environment in Mexico and the teaching-learning processes in law schools.

These were the videos issued during the year:

1. Introduction to an outlook of Legal Education in Mexico2. How do we measure the quality of so many law schools in Mexico?3. How access to public law schools in Mexico?4. More lawyers equals a better Rule of Law?5. Importance of including Human Rights in justice operators’ education6. How the lack of gender perspective affects the administration of justice?7. How is technology transforming the legal profession?8. Why is it necessary to develop professional skills at law schools?9. What are the main challenges for preparing quality justice operators?10. Use of technology in Law teaching

The 20 videos of this series are available on our YouTube channel and our Facebook page.

197visualizations are the average of each video

This year we started a blog where we approached discussions and debates related to legal education we had each week in CEEAD Seminar. The purpose of this project is to share the reflections, debates, and discussions of CEEAD research staff with a broader audience in terms of what it means to transform legal education in Mexico, how we can achieve this and why it is necessary.

In the “Seminario CEEAD” blog we want to identify and reflect on the texts that are indis-pensable for those interested in studying and researching how law is taught and learned and the phenomena related to said process.

The discussions that arose from our re-flections are located in the blog under the #Transformartes label and available on our Facebook page.

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CEEAD’s Legal Education Congress2019 CEEAD Congress was a space for learning, collaborating, discussing, and reflecting on law teaching in Mexico. The purpose of this gathering was to promo-te better practices in order to elevate the quality of the professional practice and strengthen legal education through the collaboration of instructors, law schools, and law professionals.

Specialevents

Each year we plan discussion spaces where we approach, from different perspectives, the main challenges of legal education and their possible solutions. Each one pretends to contribute to the transformation of legal education, as well as to present professional development opportunities for current and future law teachers and practitioners.

Presentation of lectures during CEEAD’s Legal Education Congress

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Special events

The memoirs of this Congress are available at

www.congresoceead.mx

The topics presented during the Congress were:

1. Legal pluralism and the teaching of law2. Curricular models and innovations for law degrees3. Development of teaching competencies4. The impact of technology on legal education5. The legal education system in Mexico and quality in law schools6. Gender perspective in legal education and legal professions7. Didactic strategies to teach specific areas of law

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ministrative staff from institutions in Germany, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, United States of America, El Salvador, France, Peru, and 25

states in Mexico.

This fourth edition took place in San Cristóbal de las Casas and there were

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Expo CEEADWe presented the second edition of Expo CEEAD: a law postgraduate and scholarships fair in Mexico and abroad and their financing options. We organized the event along with law schools from Aguas-calientes, Colima, Guanajuato, Jalisco, Michoacán, Nayarit, and Sinaloa, with the purpose of raising interest in law students and professionals in quality postgraduate programs. Likewise, we sought to present a broader spectrum of possibilities while providing additional information for them to make an informed decision.

Presentations for the participants of Expo CEEAD

3 government institutions 3 financing and scholarship organisms

6 countries (Germany, Canada, Spain, United States of America, Mexico, and Puerto Rico)27 universities from

156 potential graduate students from the 32 federal entities of Mexico

In 2019, there were:

2019 Guadalajara, México

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Special events

Stand of UCLA Law School

This event took place in Guadalajara, in the western part of Mexico, where there are many active students and professionals which could be great applicants for postgraduate law programs.

During the event, there were conversations with universities, discussion panels, and workshops

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Study TripsIn 2019, we attended, along with deans and professors from Mexican institutions to leading law schools in the USA with the purpose of observing good practices and creating alliances between tea-chers and institutions that contribute to the improvement of legal education and the Criminal Justice System.

Participants at Stanford University

November 3 - 10 We went to Stanford and Berkeley Universi-ties in California.

February 25 - March 2 We visited NYU and Columbia University.

April 21 - 27 We went to Houston and Tulane Universities.

3 study trips 16 institutions35 participants, including instructors and directors of law schools of

Participants at Columbia University

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Institutional AlliancesWe continue working to transform legal education in Mexico through conversations and alliances with key institutions and agents.

This year we had encounters and conversations with members of organisms and institutions with which we collaborate. Some of our guests were:

» Marie-Christine Fuchs, director of the Rule of Law Program for Latin America of the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Foundation

» Ricardo Sepúlveda, general director of the Thesis Compilation and Systematization Coordination for the Supreme Court of Justice

» Jorge Cerdio, chief of the Law department of Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) » José Mario de la Garza, from Consejo Mexicano de la Abogacía » Daniel W. Linna, from Northwestern University

Presentation of the book Convención Americana sobre Derechos Humanos. Comentario. Segunda edición

A talk with Ricardo Sepúlveda, general director of the Thesis Compilation and Systematization Coordination for the Supreme Court of Justice

In CEEAD, we support the planning and coordination of the initiative Inter-institutional Subjects for Law, taught by Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Universidad de Mon-terrey, and Facultad Libre de Derecho de Monterrey. So far, and in this modality, the institutions offer subjects such as Alternative Dispute Resolution and Intellectual Property.

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Research anddissemination

In 2019 we attended national and international conferences, while collaborating with specialized publish-ers and publishing texts that are available on our platforms. We also developed research to identify the aspects to improve in terms of law teaching and learning.

Our collaborationWe participated in the 2019 CEEAD Congress on Legal Education with lectures, discussion panels, talks, and workshops:

Lectures » Ensuring the educational quality of private law schools in light of Agreement 171117 » Analysis of professional licenses issued to law graduates in Mexico, 1945-2016

International Seminar La Abogacía: Entre su Estado y su Sentido in Lima, Peru

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These are other events where we participated: » We visited the Judiciary of Yucatan to give the conference “Conflictos de interés y libertad de ex-

presión de los operadores jurídicos ante los medios de comunicación”. » We presented the lecture “Efectos secundarios en la educación legal” in the International Seminar

La Abogacía: Entre su Estado y su Sentido in Lima, Peru.

Conference “Conflictos de interés y libertad de expresión de los operadores jurídicos ante los medios de comunicación”

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» We went to the World Justice Forum in The Hague, Netherlands, an event where the main chal-lenges to delivering justice at a worldwide level are discussed, and a space to work on concrete solutions is generated.

» We participated in the reflection panel Innovaciones en la enseñanza y aprendizaje del sistema penal acusatorio during the 5th International Oral Adversarial Skill-building Immersion Seminar, or OASIS, in Mexico City.

» We went to the International High-Level Conference “Educating for the Rule of Law”, organized by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna, Austria.

Panel Innovaciones en la enseñanza y aprendizaje del sistema penal acusatorio

» We participated in the organization of the First Conference of Law and New Technologies, along with the Law School of UANL, and Academia Mexicana de Derecho Informático, A.C.

» We presented the lecture “Estudio de los Cursos de Ética Profesional en las Escuelas de Derecho en México” in the event Superar la corrupción: Horizontes éticos y educativos para América Lati-na, during the III Latin American Conference of Applied Ethics and the VII Conference on Teaching Ethics.

III Latin American Conference of Applied Ethics and the VII Conference on Teaching Ethics

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Academic presence of CEEAD researchers

Those who are a part of our research team also want to contribute to the educational community. This year they shared their main achievements.

Publications » The chapter “Abogados y Corrupción” from the book Ética pública y su incidencia en el combate a

la corrupción, written by Sergio Iván Anzola Rodríguez and published by Academia Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (AIDH), FUNDAP, and Universidad Juárez del Estado de Durango (UJED).

» The article “Human Rights Education in Law Schools in Mexico”, by Carlos René Asúnsolo Morales in Human Rights Advocates Program 30th Anniversary Report by Columbia University.

» The book El malestar en la profesión jurídica: tensiones entre la ética personal y profesional de los abogados, by Sergio Iván Anzola Rodríguez, edited by Universidad de los Andes.

» The book Lineamientos para fortalecer la enseñanza del sistema de justicia penal en escuelas de derecho, coordinated by Eduardo Román, with works by Rubén Cardoza Moyrón, José Ro-gelio Contreras Melara, David Fernández Mena, Rosalba González Ramos, and Pedro Misael Castillo Bravo.

» The chapter “The Challenge of Developing a New Human Rights Culture in Future Mexican Law-yers”, by Eduardo Román González, in the book Rebuilding the state institutions. challenges for democratic rule of law in Mexico, edited by Juan Antonio Le Clerq and José Pablo Abreu Sacra-mento, and published by Springer and Universidad de las Américas Puebla.

Awards » The thesis “Justicia constitucional y democracia en México. La Suprema Corte en la transición y

consolidación democrática” by Eduardo Román González, Reseach coordinator, obtained the Ex-traordinary PhD Award, granted by Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

» In 2019, Ana Luna Serrano (researcher in the Gender team) entered the National System of Researchers (SNI). With her, now there are three members of the CEEAD team that are part of the SNI.

» We participated in the Seminario Manual Latinoamericano de Ética Profesional del Abogado and the reflection panel Retos de la educación jurídica en Latinoamérica at Universidad de los Andes.

» We attended the 2019 ABA Techshow in Chicago. » We participated in the annual reunion of the Association of American Law Schools in New Orleans.

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Board of Directors

Luis Fernando Pérez HurtadoGeneral Director of Centro de Estudios sobre la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje del Derecho, A.C.

Ernesto Canales SantosCofounder of Institución Renace ABP and former anti-corruption district attorney in Nuevo León.

Antonio Elosúa MuguerzaFounder of Movimiento Líderes Ciudadanos en Pro de la Cultura de la Legalidad.

Partner of the real estate company U-Calli.

Eduardo Servando Guerra SepúlvedaBoard member of the Jesús M. Montemayor Foundation

Member of the firm Bufete Legal Asociado, S.C.

Board of Advisors

José Ramón Cossío DíazFormer Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Justice.

Former Head of the Law Department at ITAM.

Martín Federico BöhmerProfessor and former Head of the Law Depart-ment at Universidad de San Andrés, Argentina.

Former Dean of the Law School at Universidad de Palermo, Argentina.

Héctor Fix-FierroFormer Director of Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas at UNAM.

Lawrence M. FriedmanProfessor of the Law School at Stanford Univer-sity, USA.

Bryant G. GarthProfessor of the Law School at California Uni-versity at Irvine, USA.

Former Director of the Law School at South-western University, USA.

Co-editor of Journal of Legal Education and for-mer President of American Bar Foundation.

Ana Laura Magaloni KerpelProfessor-Researcher and former Director of the Law Studies Division at CIDE.

Rogelio Pérez-PerdomoProfessor and former Dean at Universidad Met-ropolitana de Caracas, Venezuela.

Visiting professor from the Law School at Stan-ford University, USA.

Sylvia SchmelkesAcademic Vice-President at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

Former board member of INEE and former Co-ordinator at Coordinación General de Educación Intercultural y Bilingüe at SEP.

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Finances

INCOME

• International funding

• Donations by foundations and associations

• Donations by companies and firms

• Own resources

67,150,506.00 MXN

EXPENDITURE66,619,474.00 MXN

• Project research, development, implementation, and assessment

• Operational expenses

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Implement the Comprehensive Plan to Support the strengthening of law schools as key institutions for the consolidation of the Criminal Justice System (PIA) as a program that strategically aligns several tools we have developed over the years for the strengthening of law schools.

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Develop the capacity to design, manage, and sustain tests that allow the assessment, in law professionals, of higher-order intellectual abilities and improve the focus of continuous training programs.4

Design and manage knowledge and skills assessment programs for the Criminal Justice System with which the institutions of the justice sys-tem in Mexico can certify their personnel while strengthening profes-sional service.

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Consolidate and assess the impact of our main activities, such as the CEEAD Congress, Engrane Awards, Expo CEEAD, study trips, material repository, CEEAD Observatory, law school databases and Aula CEEAD.2

Create materials, virtual courses and dissemination activities related to ethics and professional responsibility, gender equality, professional skills, human rights, and technology and law.3

Where are we headed?

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Where are we headed?

Consolidate CEEAD Semilla Program as a space to acknowledge out-standing law students throughout the country, complement their academ-ic formation and get them involved in our projects.6

Continue with the multi-year program to consolidate the management, accounting, human resources, and technological and communication resources areas, as well as to develop the coordination for institutional strengthening.

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Elaborate a comprehensive development plan for CEEAD that includes strategic objectives and institutional goals for the short, medium, and long-terms as well as an execution, monitoring, and assessment program.10

Develop a comprehensive program to train and develop researchers at CEEAD.7

Transform our offices in Monterrey and Mexico City into spaces for con-stant collaboration, open dialog, specialized training, and valuable en-counters for everyone interested in transforming legal education.8

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We would like to express our special gratitude to the institutions whose support makes it possible to achieve our goals.

Thanks to all the institutions that organized 2019 CEEAD Congress on Legal Education and 2019 Expo CEEAD for their commitment to improving legal education in Mexico.

We would also like to thank the organizations we have been building alliances with to reach common goals.

Programa Estado de Derecho para Latinoamérica

Acknowledgments

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Our office is located at:

Miguel Nieto 440 Sur, Colonia Centro Monterrey, N.L. C.P. 64000

Phones:+52 (81) 17661197+52 (81) 17661198

E-mail: informacion@ceead.org.mx

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