Ricardo Alexis Uvalle Aguilera

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Ricardo has specialized in constitutional law, amparo proceedings, and the inter-American human rights system. He is a professor of constitutional law at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has wide experience in advising, consulting and litigation in administrative law, constitutional law and amparo lawsuit.

He has participated as a speaker at national and international congresses and conferences in Argentina, Chile, Spain, the United States, Mexico and South Korea, on constitutional law, public administration, public policies, accountability, judicial system and transparency.

Ricardo holds a degree in Law from the Universidad Anáhuac México, a specialization degree in Constitutional Law from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and is a Doctor of Law from the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIJUNAM).

Experience 

• Advised and represented clients in different legal strategies, to back up their investments through a solid legal infrastructure regarding labor contractual relationship individually and with unions. 
• Advised and represented clients in direct and indirect amparo proceedings before the Federal Judicial Power.
• Advised and designed legal strategies to represent clients in the different means of constitutional control, which are processed before the Mexican Supreme Court, the highest court in Mexico.
• Advised and represented clients in administrative proceedings and trials that are processed in different levels of the federal public administration and the Federal Administrative Court of Justice.
• Represented national and international companies, designing and presenting applicable evidence in labor and social security inspections.

Education.

• Ph.D. (Doctor of Law), graduated with honors, Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (IIJUNAM), 2020.ç
• Specialty degree in Constitutional Law, graduated with honors, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 2015.
• LL.B. (Law Degree), graduated with honors, Universidad Anáhuac México, Mexico City, Mexico, 2012.

License

• Admitted in Mexico

Publications

• Uvalle Aguilera, Ricardo A. "Rules of transparency in the framework of the Mexican energy reform: publicity or right of access to information", in the Journal of Political Studies of UNAM, Epoca 9, no. 36 (September - December, 2015): 105-123.
• Uvalle Aguilera, Ricardo A. “Implementation of the issue of constitutionality in Mexico”, in the Journal of the Federal Judicial Institute, No. 45, 2018 (401-425). 
• Uvalle Aguilera, Ricardo A "Administration and Organization of the National Anticorruption System", in the RAyO Magazine of Administration and Organization of the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico Volume 21 Number 41 (July-December 2018).
• Uvalle Aguilera, Ricardo A. “Challenges and perspectives of the National Guard in Mexico”, in the Special Issue of the UNAM Law Postgraduate Journal, dedicated to the UNAM Institute of Legal Research (November 2019).
• Uvalle Aguilera, Ricardo A. “In defense of autonomous constitutional institutions”, in the Blog of the International Journal of Public Law (ICON.S) (2021).
• Uvalle Aguilera, Ricardo A. "Autonomous constitutional institutions in Mexico: analysis and proposals for their institutional development". Pending publication in the Institute of Legal Research of UNAM. (2021).

Speaker at Conferences

• Speaker with the paper "Towards a better municipality", within the framework of the International Congress of Municipal Law, organized by the Division of Postgraduate Studies of the Law School of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and the University of Guanajuato, in Guanajuato, Mexico. (May 2013).
• Speaker with the paper "The methodological understanding of constitutional law", in the course Theoretical, methodological and complex understanding of the social sciences organized by the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of UNAM, in Mexico City. (January 20, 2014).
• Speaker with the paper "Rules of transparency in the framework of the Mexican energy reform", at the International Congress of Politics, Administration and Government, GIGAPP 2014, organized by the National Institute of Public Administration and the José Ortega y Gasset Foundation - Gregorio Marañón, in Madrid. Spain. (September 2014).
• Speaker with the paper "Legal limitations of the Superior Audit of the Federation in Mexico: Oversight or accountability body?", At the International Congress on Politics, Administration and Government, GIGAPP 2015, organized by the National Institute of Public Administration and the José Ortega y Gasset Foundation - Gregorio Marañón, in Madrid, Spain. (October 2015).
• Speaker with the paper "National Anticorruption System: challenges and challenges for its effectiveness", at the International Congress on Politics, Administration and Government, GIGAPP 2016, organized by the Madrid City Council in Madrid, Spain. (October 2016).
• Speaker with the paper “The National Anticorruption System in Mexico: an incomplete task? At the Ibero-American Congress of Constitutional Law in Mexico City. (February 2017).
• Speaker with the work entitled Autonomous constitutional bodies in Mexico Unity or fragmentation of the State? ”In the cycle of Discussion Seminars held from August to December 2017 at the UNAM Institute of Legal Research. 1st. February 2018.
• "Autonomous Bodies in Mexico: institutional unity or fragmentation of the State", in the Colloquium of Doctoral Students of the Institute of Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. (May 2018).
• He participated as a speaker in the X World Congress of Constitutional Law of the International Academy of Constitutional Law (IACL) and in the Global Youth Intensive Program for Constitutional Law Scholars (GYIP) in Seoul, South Korea. (June 2018).
• He participated as a speaker at the 8th Yale Law School Doctoral Conference in November 2018. 
• He participated as a speaker with the work entitled "Institutional Dysfunctionality of the National Anticorruption System in Mexico", in the XIV Ibero-American Congress of Constitutional Law at the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires in May 2019. 
• He participated as a speaker with the work entitled "National Guard in Mexico: unconventionality and public aims", in the International Congress of Public Law ICON-S at the Catholic University of Chile, June 2019. 
• He participated as a speaker with the work entitled "Challenges of Mexican constitutionalism in the fourth transformation: autonomy and independence of the judiciary in the face of authoritarian temptation" in the panel "Latin America: From constitutionalism to uncertainty?, in the Second Meeting of the Colombian Chapter from ICON-S, University of Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, October 2019.
• He participated as a speaker with the work entitled "The fate of public trusts in Mexico", in the Seminar on Legal Analysis and COVID 19 Monitoring, organized by the Empirical Studies Section of the UNAM Institute of Legal Research (May 2020).
• Participated as speaker at the Annual Conference of the Mexican Chapter of the International Association of Public Law ICON-S, Liberal Constitutionalism vs Neoliberalism commenting on the work of Dr. Tarun Khaitan from the University of Oxford on "Political insurance for the relative poor: How liberal constitutionalism could resist plutocracy." (June 2020).
• He participated as a speaker at the XXI Conference on Constitutional Law organized by the Externado de Colombia University with the presentation entitled "Current Mexican presidentialism: from the perfect dictatorship to democratic populism" on October 9, 2020. 
• He participated as a speaker at the 1st Global Summit in Constitutionalism, organized by the International Forum on the Future of Constitutionalism and the ICON (International Society of Public Law) in Panel 15: with the presentation: “Mexican judiciary reform: an analysis from populism, institutional distrust and political dissent”, on January 12, 2021. 

Participation as Keynote Speaker. 

• Master Conference on January 15, 2015 "Rationality of transparency in the public sphere" in the context of the course for undergraduate professors The contemporary rationality of social sciences in the framework of updating in the field of Methodology of the Public Administration carried out from January 12 to 16, 2015.
• Master Conference "Youth and public administration", organized by the Municipal Institute of Youth of Tlaxcala on August 27, 2020. 
•  Master Conference "The new administrative law and digital public administration" at the International Forum organized by Ibero-American Specializations of the Castilla de la Mancha University on December 18, 2020.
• Master conference “Principles and rules of administrative law”, at the International Forum organized by Ibero-American Specializations of the National Mar del Plata University of Argentina, on May 6, 2021.