Lawyer by the Escuela Libre de Derecho, Master in Asia and Africa Studies with specialization in Japan by El Colegio de México and Ph.D. in Law by the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Professor at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México and Researcher at the Escuela Libre de Derecho. Masters and Ph.D. fellow at the Japan Foundation and visiting researcher at Waseda University, Tokyo (2012-2013). Research interests: Japanese law; society and law; comparative constitutionalism; technology and law.