Professional Affiliation

Senior Researcher at the Institute for Legal Research of UNAM and a Lecturer in Law at ITAM. 

Expert Bio

Francisca Pou Gimenez is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Legal Research of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Lecturer in Law at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM). 

Francisca is a former assistant professor in the Constitutional Law department of Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, where she also obtained a law degree (1995-1998). She began working in Mexico as a Law Clerk to Justice José Ramón Cossío Díaz in the Supreme Court of Mexico (2004-2011). Afterwards, she was an assistant professor at ITAM from 2011-2018, beginning a tenured associate professor position in 2018. In 2022, she began lecturing at ITAM and became a senior researcher – Title C for the Institute of Legal Investigations at UNAM. In addition to these roles, she has become a level III researcher for the National System of Researchers (SNI) since 2024.  

In addition to her Law Degree and Doctor in Public Law from Pompeu Fabra, she holds a Law Degree from Tlaxcala Autonomous University, a Master of Laws (LLM) from Yale Law School, and a Doctorate (JSD) from Yale Law School.