The Foreign Ministry and the Center for Research and Teaching of Economics (CIDE) today inaugurated the 24th international law workshop with the goal of raising awareness about Mexico's role in developing international law.
At the inauguration of the workshop, Alejandro Alday Gonzalez, the Foreign Ministry's Legal Counsel, said that "international law has evolved and its scope has widened over the last few decades, forcing specialists and those who study and follow international law to remain up to date on issues such as the new tactics of international terrorism and internet regulation."
CIDE President Sergio López Ayllón also attended the inauguration. This year, 31 experts will engage in discussions, give conferences and direct workshops on issues such as human rights and migration; renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); delimitation of maritime boundaries; cyberspace; the legal implications of cloud computing and private international law and its influence on Mexican mercantile law and modern methods of teaching international law, among other topics.
The international law workshop is held every year, in line with the Foreign Ministry's efforts to create ties with academics and students, in order to inform them of its most salient foreign policy actions related to international law and to promote the study of international law in Mexico.
The first workshop was held in 1993, as Mexico's contribution to the United Nations Decade of International Law. The workshop has been held ever since then, in coordination with various Mexican universities.
