The legal firm ECIJA recruits Adalberto Méndez López in Mexico, leading the area of Human Rights and Corporative Social Responsibility.

Only few months after its presence in Mexico last January, ECIJA recruits Adalberto Méndez López as responsible of the Human Rights and Corporative Social Responsibility area.

With this recruitment, the ECIJA office in Ciudad de México is positioned as the first legal firm of this country in opening this practice. This recruitment is made close to the enactment of the next binding agreement that the United Nations currently argues to regulate the activities of transnational corporations and other corporate entities in the International Law of the Human Rights.

Méndez López has several years of experience as a company lawyer, public worker and international advisor in more than 17 countries in Corporative Social Responsibility and Human Rights. He has developed his career at international organizations such as United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Inter American Institute of Human Rights (IIHR) and agencies of international cooperation of the United States Governments, USAID and Chemonics International, respectively, and of the United Kingdom, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is one of the few lawyers of the continent that has participated in procedures at the three of the four International Systems of protection for the Human Rights, such as the universal inter American and African, respectively, being also author of four books about the matter.

Being aware of the relevance in the achievement of the 2030 Agenda, the recruitment of Méndez means the commitment of the Firm for this kind of advice internationally. For Ricardo Chacón, Managing Director of the office in Mexico: “This recruitment comes to reinforce not only our leadership in Mexico with a pioneer exercise in the country such as Human Rights, but also it answers to the goal that ECIJA has been developing: transforming the Firm as a reference in Latin America, where we have been positioned as Spanish firm with more presence in the continent”.