Ricardo A. Silva Diaz
Lawyer by the Escuela Libre de Derecho, with a Master's degree from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO). He has more than 23 years of professional experience, both in the public and private sectors.
In the public sector, he worked in jurisdictional bodies and in the public administration, participating in the elaboration of relevant rulings on amparo matters -such as legitimate interest and adhesive amparo- as well as in the construction of jurisprudence on human rights, guarantees and electoral institutions. He was part of the drafting team of the Internal Regulations of the Ministry of the Interior (2013) and led the legal defense of such institution in key trials (such as those related to the Regulation of the Law of Gaming and Lotteries and the gender alert in the State of Mexico).
In the private sector, Ricardo has designed legal strategies for the defense of individuals against acts of authority in regulated sectors, concessions and sensitive areas such as energy, health, water, transportation, intellectual property, taxes, prevention of money laundering and bullfighting. Likewise, he has been an advisor on human rights protection issues and studies on the constitutionality of laws, offering efficient and innovative solutions. He has also participated as an expert in commercial arbitration.
He was rector of the Escuela Libre de Derecho (2018-2022), becoming one of the youngest rectors of the institution. His management faced challenges such as the pandemic, educational digital transformation and the strengthening of safe environments in higher education. This experience has consolidated him as a consultant in crisis management, conflict resolution and institutional strategy design.
Ricardo is a professor of Constitutional Procedural Law at the Escuela Libre de Derecho. He is a lecturer on constitutional law, human rights, political theory, bullfighting and judicial independence. He is also an honorary researcher of the Centro de Investigación e Informática Jurídica, and has been a member of the Academic Committee of the Escuela de Formación Judicial. He has published research papers on amparo, human rights and electoral law.
Track Record and Specialty
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Founding Partner of the law firm Forcada & Silva Consultores and in charge of the constitutional and administrative litigation area (2018-2022).
Secretary of Study and Account in the First Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (2013-2018).
President of the College of Secretaries of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (2015-2017).
Secretary of courts and collegiate tribunals in administrative matters in the First Circuit (2005-2012).
Deputy General Director of Constitutional Procedures at the Ministry of the Interior (2013).
Assistant Secretary in the Second Chamber of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (2002-2005).
Intern at Barrera Siqueiros and Torres Landa (2000-2002).
Intern at Notary 146 (1999-2000).
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Civil and Commercial Litigation
Constitutional Litigation
Commercial Arbitration
Administrative Litigation
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Volume Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos en la Obra Jurídica Enciclopédica de la Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico, Porrúa, 2012. (Coordinator)
"Derecho a la alimentación: ¿una condena inminente para México?" in Volume Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos en la Obra Jurídica Enciclopédica de la Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico, Porrúa, 2012.
"Community, Globalization and Human Rights" in Temas de Derecho, Escuela Libre de Derecho, 2012.
"Garantías y Derechos Humanos" in Temas de Derecho, Escuela Libre de Derecho, 2011.
"La efectiva tutela judicial y los requisitos para su acceso" Escuela Libre de Derecho, Porrúa, 2016.
"La tutela judicial efectiva y las reglas procesales en el amparo mexicano" Escuela Libre de Derecho, joint research with the University of Pisa, 2017.
"Actos en juicio de ejecución irreparable" in Elementos para el estudio del juicio de amparo. SCJN, 2017 (Co-authorship).
"Control de convencionalidad y bloque de regularidad constitucional en el juicio de amparo" in El juicio de amparo en el centenario de la Constitución mexicana de 1917. Past, present and future. UNAM, 2017 (Co-authorship).
"La problemática estructural de la violencia contra las mujeres desde la perspectiva judicial: México y Colombia" in Criterio y conducta No. 14, SCJN, 2013. (Co-authorship)
"Estrategias para erradicar la violencia contra la mujer en México" in Ética Judicial e Igualdad de Género, SCJN, 2014. (Co-authorship)
"La libertad de expresión de gobernadores durante la contienda electoral. Ejercicio jurisdiccional de derechos humanos previo a la reforma constitucional de 2011" in Declaración Oaxaca, TRIFE, 2014. (Co-authorship).
Voices: "Amparo (Facultad de Atracción de la Suprema Corte) y Amparo (Objeto del)" in Diccionario de Derecho Procesal Constitucional y Convencional, UNAM, 2014. (Co-authorship).
"La responsabilidad doméstica: ¿Un mito de igualdad?" in Control de Convencionalidad para el logro de la igualdad, SCJN. (Collaboration).
"Compliance with judgments in the amparo trial (modifications introduced by the 2013 Amparo Law)" in Forum, Mexican Bar Association (Collaboration).
"Legitimate Interest" in Topics in Law, ELD, 2014 (Collaboration).
"La consulta popular. A debt to the participatory democratic model" in Temas de Derecho, ELD, 2019.
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