We congratulate the student Andrea Aranzazú Sedeño Toxtle for winning the first place in the first edition of the 2020 University Essay Contest of the Center for Constitutional Studies organized by the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico with her essay "Indirect Discrimination in Access to High School in Mexico City and the Metropolitan Area: Case of the COMIPEMS exam”.

Likewise, ITAM and the Academic Department of Law, congratulate the student María Fernanda Ramos Araujo for achieving the honorable mention in the same edition of this contest with her title "The role of oppression in the adjudication of fundamental rights in Mexico”.

In the same way, congratulations are extended to the student Emilio Ruvalcaba Ornelas for winning the second place in the second edition of this contest with his essay "Mute interests: the fundamental rights of animals in Mexico."

The Center for Constitutional Studies of the  Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico is an academic body that seeks to promote reflection on current issues in academic and judicial life among university students; it is also a space in which they can be heard.

This contest is for male and female students who are currently pursuing a law degree from any national university or who are in the process of graduating. The participants wrote a unique and original essay with one of the two assigned themes:

• Judicial reform with and for the judiciary
• The exposition and development of a specific problem in the adjudication of fundamental rights in Mexico

The jury was made up of Ana María Ibarra Olguín, head of the Center for Constitutional Studies; Arturo Bárcena Zubieta, General Director of Studies on the Promotion and Development of Human Rights, and Rubén Sánchez Gil, academic at the Autonomous University of Yucatan.