Genaro David Góngora

Genaro David Góngora Pimentel (born September 8, 1937, in Chihuahua, Chih.) is a Mexican jurist who was a member of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) from 1995 to 2009 and served as its President (Chief Justice) from 1999 to 2003.

Góngora Pimentel studied law at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City.

and obtained a doctorate at the same university.

President Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León nominated him as a Minister of the Supreme Court (Associate Justice).

On October 1, 1963, he received his Bachelor of Laws degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma with the Thesis “From the Maritime Agency”.

Has participated in the making of the Mexican Juridical Dictionary on Merchant Law, edited by UNAM's Institute of Juridical Investigation, since 1981.

Due to the installation of a Circle of Juridical Studies “Genaro Góngora Pimentel”, has contributed to the compilation of a series of published analysis, such as: “The Juridical Work and the Judicature”.

Góngora Pimentel was confirmed by the Senate on January 26, 1995.

He attended primary and secondary schools in Ensenada, Baja California, and Hermosillo, Sonora.

He obtained a Doctorate degree in law from the same university on December 5, 2006, by submitting the Thesis “The Jurisdictional Vote”.

For more than 30 years, he has been a professor of Maritime, Merchant and Amparo Law in the Faculty of Law of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, in Mexico City.

Professor of Fiscal Law, at the Anáhuac University, he has taught at the Judicial Specialization Institute, of the Judicial Power of the Federation.

He has published in collaboration with Dr. Acosta Romero:

Coauthor with Magistrate María Guadalupe Saucedo Zavala, of the following works;

Invited by the XLVI Legislature to integrate comments, background and path of the Constitutional Articles.

“The Mexican People’s Rights.

Mexico throughout its Constitutions”