Profile

L.D. (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico), LLM (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor).

As an academic and practitioner with a career spanning more than thirty years, Gomez-Palacio has published several books and articles in the field of foreign investment, international investment law, exchange controls, electoral law and legal education; served for a decade as Senior Consultant for the UN Center on Transnational Corporation (currently UNCTAD); and has taught International Business Transactions, International Commercial Arbitration, Comparative and Latin American Law and International Law on Foreign Investment, as law professor at the National University of Mexico, Iberoamericana and Universities of California at Davis, Florida, Hong Kong, Beijing, New Mexico, Baja California Norte and others.

Former President of the Instituto Mexicano para la Justicia (2001-04), founding partner of Gomez-Palacio y Asociados and active arbitrator (commercial and ICSID Investor- State arbitration). Outside counsel to Mexico's Ministry of Foreign Relations.

Samples of written books and articles

• Derecho de los Negocios Internacionales
  Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 2006.
• Arbitraje Comercial Internacional: Dos Culturas en Estado de Noviazgo y Posible Matrimonio de Conveniencia. To be published by Jurídica, Anuario del Departamento de Derecho de la Universidad Iberoamericana, No. 36, Mexico 2006.
• Ley Modelo sobre Conciliacion Comercial Internacional de la CNUDM (UNCITRAL). Pauta (ICC Mexican Chapter Review), 2005.
• Enseñar, aprender y ejercer el derecho ante los retos del cambio: evolución ineludible. Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico, 2002.
• Reforma Judicial: el "criterio de importancia y trascendencia" y su antecedente, el Writ of Certiorari. Revista del Instituto de la Judicatura Federal, Mexico, 1999.
• The New Regulation on Foreign Investment in Mexico: A Difficult Task.
  Houston Journal of International Law, 1990.
• Reglamento de la Ley de Inversiones Extranjeras: Constitucionalidad.
  "El Foro" (Mexican Bar publication), 1990.
• Ley de Inversion Extranjera y su Reglamento comentados
  Editorial Themis, Mexico, 1989.
• Inversion Extranjera Directa
  Editorial Porrua, Mexico, 1985.
• Mexico's Foreign Exchange Controls. Two Administrations-Two Solutions. Thorough and Benign.
  University of Miami, Inter-American Law Review, 1984.
• Defining "New Lines of Products" under Mexico´s Foreign Investment Law California Western International Law Journal, 1978.
• Analisis de la Ley de Inversion Extranjera en Mexico.
  Impresora Azteca, Mexico, 1974.