Professor and Researcher
National University of Mexico
Manuel González Oropeza is a researcher at the Institute for Legal Research at the National University of Mexico and a professor and supervisor of the Graduate Division in the School of Law, at the same university. His publications are concentrated in areas such as legal history, constitutional law, comparative law and electoral law.
Professionally, he has served as secretary general of the Department of Humanities at UNAM; bureau chief of the Diplomatic Archives of Mexico at the Department of Foreign Affairs; law clerk of the Supreme Court of Justice; chairman of the Electoral Council of the Federal Elections Board at the Federal District, which organized the first election for Head of Government for Mexico City in 1997. He has been a professor in various state and private universities throughout Mexico and abroad, including the University of Montreal, UCLA, Michigan State and the University of Texas.
From 2006-16, González Oropeza served as judge of the Supreme Court for Elections in Mexico.
González Oropeza earned a law degree in 1980 (with honors) from the School of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 1982, he obtained a master’s degree in public law from the University of California at Los Angeles; and in December 1995 he received the Doctor of Law degree from the National University.