Sergio García Ramírez

Sergio García Ramírez
President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 2004 - 2007
Personal details
Born	Sergio García Ramírez (1938-02-01) February 1, 1938 Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Alma mater	National Autonomous University of Mexico UNAM (Juris Doctor)
Website	Official website

Sergio García Ramírez (born February 1, 1938) is a Mexican jurist and politician who currently serves as a judge at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

Born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, García Ramírez undertook his university studies at the school of law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in 1963 with an honorable mention, and he obtained his Ph.D. in 1971, receiving the first Magna cum laude awarded for a UNAM Ph.D. in law. He is an official investigator in the Institute of Juridical Investigations and an official professor in the School of Law of the same university. He is a National Investigator, level III, in the National System of Investigators. Since 1993 he has been a member of the Governing Board of the UNAM.

Political career

García Ramírez has been a member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) since 1961. He occupied different positions under the PRI regime and served in the cabinet of President José López Portillo as Secretary of Labor and then in the cabinet of President Miguel de la Madrid as Attorney General. In 1988 he lost the PRI internal bid for the party presidential candidacy against Carlos Salinas de Gortari. García Ramírez has never been elected to public office

External links

• (English) Inter-American Court website

Preceded by Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade	President of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 2004–2007	Succeeded by Cecilia Medina Quiroga
Preceded by Héctor Fix Zamudio	Judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights 1997–present	Incumbent
Preceded by Óscar Flores Sánchez	Attorney General 1982–1988	Succeeded by Enrique Álvarez del Castillo