Ramírez-Espinosa, Naayeli Esperanza

Naayeli Ramírez-Espinosa is the Dean of the School of Social Sciences and Government in the Northwest since 2024. She is also the Law Department Chair in Campus Monterrey, where she teaches the subjects of Legal Pluralism (Semana Tec) and Applied Legal Research since 2020. She holds a PhD in Philosophy of Law from Allard Hall, Faculty of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver (2014); a PhD in Public Management from the Okuma School of Public Management at Waseda University, Tokyo (2010), and a Master's degree in Public Law from Komazawa University, Tokyo (2007). She completed two postdoctoral degrees, the most recent on intercultural legal education at the Universidad Veracruzana working on research projects with Purépecha, Totonac, and Mayan communities. The emphasis of this project was on building intercultural normative systems through indigenous consultation. She completed her first postdoc with a Canadian government scholarship at the University of British Columbia. The title of this project was Local engagement with international economic law and human rights (2014). From 2016 to 2018, she worked as a consulting attorney for Mayan communities in the Chenes in Campeche with the support of various civil organizations. These organizations included the Mexican Center for Environmental Law and Muuch Kambal, A.C. From 2017 to 2020, she collaborated as a consultant on Strategic Litigation Capacity Building projects with Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF). She has worked as an academic, consultant, and attorney, and her latest publications focus on the rights of indigenous peoples in Mexico and Latin America. To access some of them: https://g.co/kgs/swNSfvJ. Finally, it is worth mentioning that Naayeli Ramírez-Espinosa graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Laws from Tec de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey.