Alejandro obtained an LL.B. (’02) from ITAM in Mexico City, and an LL.M. (’03) and a J.S.D. (’06) from Yale Law School in New Haven. He is currently Professor of Law at CIDE in Aguascalientes, Mexico, where he heads the recently created interdisciplinary Drug Policy Program.

Before becoming a full-time professor in 2009 he practiced constitutional litigation, specializing in high-impact, public interest cases before Mexico’s Supreme Court, most notably on abortion law, same-sex marriage, tobacco control and telecommunications law.

He has contributed to or drafted several of the most recent legislative proposals for marihuana regulation in Mexico, and is a member of the Johns Hopkins-Lancet Commission on Public Health and International Drug Policy. He has published on issues ranging from legal education and history of legal thought, to sexual and reproductive rights, tobacco control, drug policy, and free speech.

His first book, Revelación y Creación. Los fundamentos teológicos de la dogmática jurídica (Revelation and Creation: The Theological Foundations of Legal Science) was recently published by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, CIDE and Los Andes University in Mexico City and Bogotá.