Cortés-Campos, Josefina

Josefina Cortés Campos is a Professor of Law at Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiroes de Monterrey (Tecnológico de Monterrey), in Mexico City. A summa cum laude graduate of ITAM Law School, Professor Cortés holds a Doctorate in Law (summa cum laude) from Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain, and a Diploma in Constitutional Law and Political Science from the Spanish Center for Political and Constitutional Studies. Dr. Cortés¿ teaching and research focus on administrative law, energy law, and economic regulation & public services; she was Director of the Master of Administrative Law and Regulation at ITAM. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Universidad París X; Universidad La Sabana and Universidad Externado in Colombia; Centro de Estudios de la Justicia de la Universidad de Chile; and Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile. In 2013, she received a Professional Merit Award from ITAM for her broad range of academic and professional accomplishments. Professor Cortés took a leave of absence from ITAM from 2010 to 2012, while she served as General Director for Privatization and Concession Granting of the Mexican Federal Commission on Economic Competition, which enforces Mexican antitrust laws. She has served as an employee and adviser to a number of Mexican governmental agencies, including the Mexican Senate, the Federal Judicial Council, the Mexican Supreme Court, Pemex, and the Federal School of Judicial Training. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law, and of the Iberoamerican Association of Regulatory Studies. Professor Cortés was the Director of the Center for Energy and Natural Resources at ITAM, and as of today she is a professor and researcher in the Government School at Tecnológico de Monterrey. Professor Cortés is part of the National Research System, level II. Professor Cortés is a prolific author and has published numerous books and articles dealing with administrative law, energy regulation, antitrust, and related subjects.