Rule of Law in Mexico: A Pending Agenda?

Date: 

Saturday, February 3, 2018, 9:00am to 10:00am

Location: 

Harvard Kennedy School, Littauer Building, 1st Floor, 79 John F. Kennedy Street Cambridge, MA

Amidst the most violent decades in México’s history, the country is dealing with a real impunity problem. During the last decade, Mexican Authorities have responded by approving a series of constitutional reforms that transform the Justice System. Results, however, have been ambiguous: criminal justice remains hazardous - or selective -, and the judiciary is still not a reliable safeguard to infringements of Human Rights. Some people demand that politicians be jailed, others focus on building reliable public services – México must discuss how to build its Rule of Law.

Speakers: Javier Láynez, Justice of the Mexican Supreme Court; Gerardo Laveaga, General Director of the Mexican National Institute of Criminal Science; Pedro Salazar, Director of the Legal Research Institute at the Mexican National Autonomous University

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