Attorneys

Raúl Pérez Johnston
Partner

Academic Background

• LL.M., University of Chicago Law School.
• Postgraduate course, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School.
• Postgraduate specialization on Constitutional Law, University of Salamanca, Spain.
• Licenciado en Derecho (J.D. equivalent), Universidad Anáhuac Law School, with special honors awarded on the professional examination and the thesis titled: On the Limitations of the Amending Power of the Constitution.
• Various postgraduate courses on Constitutional Law, Amparo and American Legal System from: Universidad Panamericana Law School, The National Judges and Justices of the Federal Judicial Power Association and the Federal Judicature Institute, Judicial School (Federal Judicial Power).

Professional Experience

• 1998-2001 and 2005-2007. Senior Associate of the administrative, industrial property, constitutional litigation and arbitration group at Creel, García-Cuéllar y Müggenburg, S.C.
• 2004-2005. Foreign Attorney member of the International Arbitration group at Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP, Houston, Tx.
• 2002-2003. Clerk to Justice Pedro Esteban Penagos López, collaborating in drafting opinions in constitutional litigations related to administrative and industrial property matters at the Eleventh Administrative Circuit Court in the First Circuit, Federal Judicial Power, Mexico City.
• 1997-1998. Member of the criminal and constitutional litigation group at Sodi Abogados, S.C., Mexico City.

Associations

• Mexican Bar Association, member of the Constitutional Law and Amparo Commission and the Administrative Law Commission.
• London Court of International Arbitration, member of the Young International Arbitration Group.
• ADE, Revista de la Asociación de Diplomáticos Escritores, member of the Editorial Board and General Counsel (Pro bono).

Other Activities

Professor of Law at Universidad Anáhuac Law School, Mexico City, on Human Rights, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Rights and Amparo (currently).

Guest Lecturer on various topics related with Constitutional Law, Constitutional History, Constitutional Litigation and Administrative Litigation at: Universidad Anáhuac Law School, Mexico City; Barra Mexicana, Colegio de Abogados, A.C., Mexico; Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia.

Areas

• Administrative litigation
• Constitutional litigation
• IP litigation
• International Litigation
• Arbitration

Languages

Spanish (native), English, French (fluent), German, Danish, Dutch, Italian and Polish (basic knowledge).