He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1996. He has ample experience in International and Mexican Law and a solid understanding of American and the Common Law tradition. For 8 years he was an associate lawyer of a Canadian Law Firm where he practiced international economic law and had ample experience in the adversarial legal system.   For 6 years he was a high ranking diplomat at the Mexican Embassy in Washington, D.C. He was also a founding member and second Dean of the innovative CIDE Law School in Mexico City. Most recently, he was Director of Judicial Career and Research at the Judicial School of Mexico City Judicial Power. He was also a partner at UD Abogados where he practiced litigation in Civil, Family, Criminal, Administrative and Constitutional Law. He has published extensively in Mexico, the USA, Canada and several Latin American countries, and has taught in several prestigious Mexican Law Schools and in Duke University School of Law. In the last ten years, he has advised and trained local and federal judges in the criminal and civil adversarial system implemented in Mexico. Among his last publications are: Investigación Aplicada sobre la Función Jurisdiccional (2022) (Judicial Branch Applied Research) and Las Clínicas Jurídicas Penales en la Educación Legal para la Justicia en México (Criminal Law School Clinics and Justice Legal Education in Mexico). In L. E. Ríos Vega & I. Spigno (Eds.), Educación Jurídica y Derechos Humanos. La enseñanza del derecho en el siglo XXI (Legal Education and Human Rights. The teaching of Law in the XXI Century) (2019).