Genaro David Góngora

Genaro Góngora Pimentel

Genaro David Góngora Pimentel (born September 8, 1937 in Chihuahua, Chih.)[1] is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1995 to 2009 and served as its President (Chief Justice) from 1999 to 2003.[2][3]

Góngora Pimentel studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. and obtained a doctorate at the same University.

President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León nominated him as a Minister of the Supreme Court (Associate Justice). Góngora Pimentel was confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 1995.

Education

He attended primary and secondary schools in Ensenada, Baja California, and Hermosillo, Sonora. On October 1, 1963, he received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma with the Thesis “From the Maritime Agency”. He obtained a Doctorate degree in Law from the same University on December 5, 2006, by submitting the Thesis “The Jurisdictional Vote”.

Professional experience

Teaching experience

For more than 30 years, he has been a Professor of Maritime, Merchant and Amparo Law in the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Mexico City. Professor of Fiscal Law, at the Anáhuac University, he has taught at the Judicial Specialization Institute, of the Judicial Power of the Federation.

Publications

He has published in collaboration with Dr. Acosta Romero:

Coauthor with Magistrate María Guadalupe Saucedo Zavala, of the following works;

Invited by the XLVI Legislature to integrate comments, background and path of the Constitutional Articles. “The Mexican People’s Rights. Mexico throughout its Constitutions”

Has participated in the making of the Mexican Juridical Dictionary on Merchant Law, edited by UNAM’s Institute of Juridical Investigation, since 1981.

Due to the installation of a Circle of Juridical Studies “Genaro Góngora Pimentel”, has contributed to the compilation of a series of published analysis, such as: “The Juridical Work and the Judicature”.

Distinctions

Legal offices
Preceded by
José Vicente Aguinaco Alemán
President of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation
January 4, 1999 January 2, 2003
Succeeded by
Mariano Azuela Güitrón
  1. http://www.scjn.gob.mx/Conoce/ConformadaScjn/Ministros/BiografiaMinistros/Paginas/GongoraPimentelOK.aspx
  2. http://www2.scjn.gob.mx/Ministros/ministroGongoraPimentel/portal_mgdgp.htm
  3. http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/643440.html
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