Book Chapters

«El gobierno judicial y los consejos de la judicatura«. In Azul Aguiar (ed.), Gobierno y política judicial en México, México: Fontamara, 2019.

«Independence in Judicial Hierarchies: Civil-Law Systems«. In Susan M. Sterett and Lee Demetrius Walker (eds.), Research Handbook on Law and Courts, North Hampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.

Authoritarian Constitutionalism. In Conrado Hübner Mendes and Roberto Gargarella (eds.). Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Coauthored with Andrea Pozas-Loyo. In press.

The «New Militarism» and the Rule of Law in Latin America.

In Tatiana Alfonso, Karina Ansolabehere, and Rachel Sieder (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Law and Society in Latin America. New York: Routledge, 2019.

“Constitutions, Constitutionalism, and the Armed Forces in Latin America” [Constituciones, constitucionalismo y fuerzas armadas en América Latina].

In Catherine Andrews (coord.). Un siglo de constitucionalismo en América Latina (1917-2017). México: CIDE, 2018.

Constitutional Courts as Third-Party Mediators in Conflict Resolution: The Case of the Right to Prior Consultation in Latin American Countries.

In Jorge Gordin and Lucio Renno (eds.). Institutional Innovation and the Steering of Conflicts in Latin America, pp. 161-185. London: ECPR Press, 2017. Coauthored with Andrea Pozas-Loyo.

Judicial Government and the Judicial Career. Notes for a Socio-Political History of the Mexican Federal Judiciary, 1917-2017 [El gobierno del Poder Judicial y la carrera judicial en México, 1917-2017. Apuntes para una historia socio-política].

In Cien ensayos para el centenario. Aniversario de la Constitución Mexicana, vol. 4, pp. 273-287. México: IIJ-UNAM / Instituto Belisario Dominguez, 2017.

The Transformations of the Role of the Mexican Supreme Court.

In Andrea Castagnola and Saúl López Noriega (eds.), Judicial Politics in Mexico. The Supreme Court and the Transition to Democracy, pp. 8-40. New York: Routledge, 2017. Coauthored with Andrea Pozas-Loyo.

Military Jurisdiction and Its Limits [Jurisdicción militar y sus límites].

In Derechos del Pueblo Mexicano. México a través de sus Constituciones, vol. V Temas Transversales, pp. 655-666. México: Porrua, 2016. Coauthored with Andrea Pozas-Loyo.

The Transformations of the Role of the Mexican Supreme Court [Las transformaciones del rol de la Suprema Corte].

In Andrea Castagnola and Saúl López Noriega (eds.), El Rol de la Suprema Corte en la Consolidación Democrática de México. México: IIJ-Tirant-lo-blanch, 2016.

Judicial Institutions”.

In Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz-Rufino (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions. New York: Routledge, 2015.

“The Security v. Liberty Dilemma in the Constitutional Jurisprudence on Military Jurisdiction in Peru, 1980-2010” [El dilema seguridad vs libertad. La jurisprudencia constitucional sobre fuero militar: Perú, 1980-2010].

In Luis Daniel Vázquez, Karina Ansolabehere y Sandra Serrano (coords.), Los Derechos Humanos y la Violencia: Estado, Instituciones y Sociedad Civil. México-Bogotá: FLACSO-Universidad de los Andes, 2015. Coauthored with Andrea Pozas-Loyo (Language: Spanish)

Judicial Intervention in Civic-Military Relations. Evidence from Colombia and Mexico.

In Tom Ginsburg and Randall Peeremboon (eds.), Law and Development of Middle Income Countries. Avoiding the Middle Income Trap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Coauthored with María Fernanda Gómez Abán

Effectiveness and Representativeness of Justice System Institutions in Mexico´s Transition to Democracy.

In Ludovico Feoli and Moira MacKinnon (eds.), Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Institutional Design and Constitutional Interpretation: Constructing Due Process Rights in Latin America.

In Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling- Vacaflor (cords.), New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices. London: Ashgate, 2012.

Introduction: Courts in Latin America.

Institutions for Constitutional Justice in Latin America.

In Gretchen Helmke and Julio Ríos Figueroa (eds.), Courts in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

The Justice System [El Sistema de Administración de Justicia].

In Gabriel Negretto (ed.), Debatiendo la Reforma Política en México: Claves del Cambio Institucional. México: CIDE, 2010. (Language: Spanish)

When and Why ‘Law’ and ‘Reality’ Coincide? De Jure and De Facto Judicial Independence in Chile and Mexico.

In P Sabiha Khanum (ed.), Judicial Independence and Accountability. A Debate. Hyderabad, India: The Icfai University Press, 2008. Coauthored with con Andrea Pozas Loyo. This a reprint of the 2007 chapter.

When and Why ‘Law’ and ‘Reality’ Coincide? De Jure and De Facto Judicial Independence in Chile and Mexico.

In Alejandra Rios-Cazares and David A. Shirk (eds.). Evaluating Transparency and Accountability in Mexico: National, Local and Comparative Perspectives. San Diego: University of San Diego Press, 2007. Coauthored with Andrea Pozas-Loyo.