JUAN PEDRO MACHADO ARIAS
Lawyer

Partner — Mexico City

Practice Area

Administrative litigation.

Education and training

  • Candidate to obtain the Doctorate degree in Administrative Law from the Complutense University of Madrid (Universidad Complutense de Madrid). Thesis line of research: comparative study of administrative punitive law in Mexico and Spain, directed by Dr. Daniel Sarmiento.
  • Master degree in administrative law from the Complutense University of Madrid, 2004 to 2006. Thesis line of research: public participation in urban planning, directed by Dr. Tomás-Ramón Fernández Rodríguez.
  • Diploma in Constitutional Law and Political Science granted by the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies of Madrid (Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales), 2005 to 2006. Thesis line of research: Spanish administrative law during the Franco regime.
  • Law degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM), 1992 to 1996. Thesis line of research: limits on freedom of press in Mexico, directed by Dr. Héctor Fix Fierro.
Academic activities

  • Research fellow at the National Institute of Ecology (Instituto Nacional de Ecología, INE), Mexico, 2003.
  • Lecturer at the Attorney General’s Office for Environmental Protection (Procuraduría Federal de Protección al Ambiente, PROFEPA), Mexico, 2003.
  • Lecturer at the Conference on Latin American Administrative Procedure, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Mexico, 2007.
  • Lecturer at the Conference on Access to Environmental Justice at the Legal Research Institute (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas), UNAM, 2007.
  • Lecturer on Environmental and Administrative Law at the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, ITAM), in the Master Program of Administrative Law, 2008.
Academic writings

  • Definitions of “Right to Access Public Environmental Information” and “Environmental Public Information” in “Dictionary of Access Rights to Public Information” (Villanueva, Ernesto, coordinator), published by the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas-UNAM and Porrúa, México, 2006.
Another activities

  • Member of the Judicial Procedures Committee of the Editorial Council of the Reforma newspaper, México (2008).
Languages

  • Spanish.
  • English.
Contact Information

 * juan.machado@solcargo.com.mx
Tel: + 52(55) 5062 0050