Senior Attorney; Director, Judicial Education Program
ELI Senior Attorney Alejandra Rabasa is a Mexican attorney with well over a decade of experience with the Secretaría del Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (SEMARNAT), Mexico's environment ministry , and the Mexican Center of Environmental Law ( CEMDA). She also has years of experience working on judicial education, in addition to her work on human rights, water, climate adaptation, biodiversity, and energy issues with ELI.
Media Guide Expertise Climate Change: climate adaptation, energy
International law : human rights, judicial education, Mexican law
Wildlife: biodiversity
Education Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Mexico City, Mexico, Ciudad Universitaria Campus Master Degree on Sciences of Sustainability 2015 – present
Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C. Mexico City, Mexico, Santa Fe Campus Law Degree, 1995 – 2000
Foreign Affairs Ministry of Japan - Forum for East Asia and Latin American Cooperation Tokyo, Japan Seminar FEALAC Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development, 2006
University of California (UCLA) Los Angeles, California Litigating Regulatory Takings Claims, Seminar, 2004
Mexico’s Supreme Court of Justice Mexico City, México Degree on Constitutional Procedural Law, 1999
Selected Publications Four Goals , Environmental Law Forum, July/August 2013, at 24 (on Mexico's passage of climate change legislation) (co-written with Alejandro Posadas & J. Cory Connolly).
What Are the Next Steps? Legal Perspectives on Mexico´s General Law on Climate Change (2012) (The Mexico–US Law Network, ELI & USAID 2012) (project coordinator).
Evolution of the Legal Framework as a Condition for the Development of National Capacities for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of the Natural Capital of Mexico , in Natural Capital of México (Vol.IV) (publication review) (National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (CONABIO) (in process).
Public Policy and Prospects for Sustainability , in Natural Capital of México (Vol. III) (publication collaboration) (National Commission for Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity 2008).