Hápax — José Alberto Medina Flores

José Alberto Medina Flores

Junior Researcher

Attorney at law, with 30 years of experience in labor litigation, candidate for a Doctorate in Law by research at the University of Navarra. General Director and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Deiman, S.A. de C.V., Director of Editorial Notas Universitarias, S.A. de C.V., Instituto Teológico Digital, A.C., Centro de Estudios Interdisciplinares, A.C., with teaching experience at the Universidad Panamericana campus Mexico teaching Roman Law, Political Science and State Theory at the undergraduate level. He is a canon lawyer and prosecutor at the Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Tribunal of Mexico.

Central line of research

Polycentrism in Law: Law as a science, endowed with an argumentative language focused on solutions and based on topicality.

Areas of specialization

Roman-Canon Law, Mexican and U.S. Labor Law.

Areas of interest

The sources of law in the culturally constructed topic, different from the legislated source as an analogy of law.

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Freedom has no choice but to accept to be judged, otherwise it could not be constituted as freedom, but precisely its opposite: necessity. I can be a judge if I am subject to the law, to which I obtain already formulated or derived from my created nature.

Itinerary

In the teaching of Roman Law, it seemed natural to me to explain the jurists' form of aporetic argumentation as a self-evident notion of legal reasoning, but it was perceived as a method out of use due to (apodictic) rationalism. Studying Paul Vaslavik's Theory of Human Communication and delving deeper into epistemology, I come to seriously wonder whether it is possible to speak of law as a science. I come to the studies on topicality and Jurisprudence of Theodor Viehweg and advancing in pragmatics I enter studies on the dispersion of sources of legal ideas to question their relationship with law, justice, and ethics. Finding suggestive criticisms that were developed at the end of the twentieth century at the University of Helsinky by several authors (Ari Hirvonen and Panu Minkkinen) to arrive at the role of the jurist who, with a direct and intelligent language, proposes order and improvement of what exists so that it is consistent with the expected normality, it means what is already going well.

Academic formation

2014. Panamerican Institute of Business Administration (Universidad Panamericana).

CERTIFICATE

Program: Governing Companies, Improving Board Members.

2011-2012. Panamerican Institute of Business Administration (Universidad Panamericana).

DIPLOMA

Senior Management AD-2

2010. Center for Competitiveness of Monterrey (Caintra-Nuevo León).

Diploma in Lean Manufacturing and Value Chain.

1998-2003. University of Navarra

Doctoral Candidate in Law

D. in Law by Research

Subject: Polycentrism

2001. Ilustre y Nacional Colegio de Abogados/Instituto Mexicano de Derechos de Autor A.C./Grupo Mexicano de la Asociación Literaria y Artística Internacional, México City.

CERTIFICATE

Specialist in Intellectual Property Law.

Candidate to become an expert on the subject by said institutes.

2000. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

DIPLOMATE

English Legal Methods

Public Law, Private International Law.

1999-2000. Illustrious and National Bar Association / Pontifical University of Mexico.

CERTIFICATE

Canonical Matrimonial Law

1994. University of California. Davis and Berkeley, U.S.A.

DIPLOMATE

Orientation in U.S. Law.

Legal English

Civil, commercial, and procedural law

1995. Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico

DIPLOMATE

North American Law and Free Trade Agreement

Commercial Law, International Trade.

1987-1992. Universidad Panamericana, México D.F.

LAW DEGREE

Thesis: Labor Liability

Director: Lic. Juan C. Ibáñez Mariel

Teaching experience