Flavio Galván Rivera
Flavio Galván Rivera is a law graduate of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico), he received his bachelor’s degree in law on January 20, 1976. On July 1, 1976, he received the diploma of specialization in Private Law. On October 24, 1996, he defended the dissertation “Mexican Electoral Procedural Law” in the UNAM, obtaining the degree of Doctor of Law. On November 8, 2002, he received the Master’s Degree, defending the dissertation “Concubinage in the Current Mexican Law”.
Experience on electoral matter: From 1990 to 1996, he was a magistrate of the former Federal Electoral Court, second plurinominal district. He was a Study and Account Secretary in the Electoral Litigation Court from 1987 to 1990. From 1996 to October 2006, he served as General Secretary in the Electoral Court of the Federal Judicial Branch. Today, he is a Superior Electoral Court magistrate. He was the president of such Superior Electoral Court from November 2006 to August 6, 2007. He was the Procedural Law Academic Coordinator (1995) and the Electoral Law Academic Coordinator (1996) in the Electoral Training Centre of the Federal Electoral Court.
International election observer: Flavio Galván Rivera has been an international electoral observer, representing the Electoral Court of the Federal Judicial Branch, in the presidential elections and elections of representatives and senators held in Honduras (1997), Ecuador (1998), Venezuela (1998) and Uruguay (2004).
Lecturer on electoral matter: he has been a lecturer on electoral matter in national and international conferences, including Costa Rica, Spain and Honduras. He has taught courses on judicial electoral matter, organized by Mexico and Spain (first, second and third). He has been a lecturer in work meetings with electoral magistrates from all the Mexican states and the Federal District, as well as in work meetings with magistrates, deputies, international experts and specialized staff from Peru (1995), El Salvador (1995, 2002 and 2005), Guatemala (2000), Spain (2000), Honduras (2001), Indonesia (2001) and Algeria (2004).
Flavio Galván Rivera wrote the book “Derecho Procesal Electoral Mexicano. Con sendas ediciones de Mac-Graw-Hill; Porrúa, S.A. de C. V. y el Tribunal Electoral del Poder Judicial de la Federación” (Mexican Electoral Procedural Law). He is coauthor of several books, such as: Derecho Procesal Constitucional (Constitutional Procedural Law);El camino de la democracia en México (Democracy way in Mexico); Tendencias contemporáneas del Derecho Electoral en el mundo (Contemporary tendencies of electoral law in the world); Justicia Electoral en el umbral del siglo XXI (Electoral justice on the threshold of the XXI century) and Elecciones y justicia en España y México(Elections and justice in Spain and Mexico).
Awards: He has passed his degree examination with an Honourable Mention. He has received: (a) the Alfonso Caso Award to the most outstanding doctoral student; (b) the IUS award due to his contribution to the law development; (c) the “Jorge Sánchez Cordero” and “Rafael Rojina Villegas” special chairs; (d) the Derecho Electoral Award, granted by the Mexican Legion of Honour; and (e) the outstanding work award, granted by the National Copyright Institute, the Ministry of Public Education and the UNAM.
He is a professor at the Faculty of Law of the UNAM, tenured and a member of the Consultative Committee of Competitive Examination for the academic staff on civil, notarial and registry matters.
