Mr. Salazar obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (1994), with special mention, and holds a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy, with honorary mention, from the University of Turin, Italy (2003). He has a lengthy and prolific career as a researcher, academic, consultant, and arbitrator, as well as an extensive background in the publishing and media sectors.

 

Dr. Salazar Ugarte served as director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas de la UNAM (IIJ-UNAM) during the periods 2014-2018 and 2018-2022. He also acted as Academic Secretary of the same Institute between 2009 and 2011 and headed the Internal Council Secretariat, the Editorial Committee Secretariat, and the Editorial Subcommittee of the Institution. In 2010, he was president of the Academic Commission for the Evaluation of Institutional Research Line Projects at the IIJ-UNAM.

 

Since 2012, Dr. Salazar has been a member of the National System of Researchers, Level III, and in 2021, he was promoted to Senior Researcher C of the IIJ-UNAM. Between 1996 and 1999, he acted as legal advisor of the then Instituto Federal Electoral (now Instituto Nacional Electoral).

 

Among his most relevant institutional appointments are that of member of the Editorial Board of the Academia Mexicana de Ciencias (2020), member of the Editorial Board of the Instituto de la Judicatura Federal-Escuela Judicial (2019), member of the Advisory Council of the Unidad General de Igualdad de Género de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (2019), member of the Faculty of Doctors of the UNAM Law Faculty (2017), president of the UNAM University Legislation Commission (2014), member of the Advisory Assembly of the Consejo Nacional para Combatir y Prevenir la Discriminación (2013), and supernumerary academic of the Academia Mexicana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación, A.C. (2013).

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In 2016, Doctor Salazar founded, together with leaders from different sectors, Impunidad Cero, an organization aimed at studying, analyzing, raising awareness, and countering impunity in Mexico. In that same year, he joined the Assembly of Partners of Fundar, Centro de Análisis e Investigación, aimed at promoting better relations between society and government, and the Council of Advisers of Mexicanos Contra la Corrupción y la Impunidad.  Also in 2016, he was appointed arbitrator of the Permanent Court of Arbitration based in The Hague.

 

As a professor, Doctor Salazar has focused on Constitutional Law, Political Theory, Public Law, Human Rights, Ethics, Democracy, and the Rule of Law, among others. Throughout his career, he has lectured in bachelor’s, graduate, master’s, doctorate, and specialization degrees, both in Mexico and abroad, in countries such as the United States, Spain, Italy, and Germany. He has also been invited as a lecturer and speaker at numerous national and international seminars and congresses.

 

Author, co-author, editor, translator, and coordinator of several academic works, Dr. Salazar also collaborates with several specialized magazines, newspapers, and print media in Mexico and other countries. His most recent books include Power over Law. The Case of the Popular Consultation to Judge Former Presidents, as well as Democracy and (Culture of) Legality, in its second edition.

 

He is also a commentator and host on radio and television, on channels such as Canal 11, Canal Judicial, Canal del Congreso, Canal 40, and UNAM TV. For his work in the series Electoral Observatory, he won the Honorable Mention of the 2018 Edition in the category Radio and Television, Premio Alemán de Periodismo Walter Reuter.