Mexican Law Expert

David Lopez is the leading testifying expert on Mexican law in the United States.

MEXICAN LAW ISSUES

Mr. Lopez has testified on a wide variety of Mexican law issues, including:

• Automobile and bus accidents
• Aviation law (ley de aviación)
• Civil claims under Mexican law (reclamos)
• Community property (sociedad conyugal) – validity under Mexican law
• Contract law (contratos)
• Corporations and other commercial entities (sociedades mercantiles)
• Custody and parental rights (custodia y patria potestad)
• Customs law (derecho aduanal)
• Damages under Mexican law (daños y perjuicios)
• Family law (derecho familiar)
• Guarantees (avals)
• Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Inheritance and succession (herencia y sucesión)
• Jurisdiction of Mexican courts (competencia)
• Maquiladora law
• Maritime law (derecho marítimo)
• Mexican government agencies as “instrumentalities” under the FCPA
• Mexican marriages – validity under Mexican law
• Moral damages (daños morales)
• Notaries (notarios públicos)
• Personal injury
• Promissory notes (pagarés)
• Statutes of limitation (prescripción)

For a complete list of Mexican law topics on which Mr. Lopez has testified, please contact us.

SCHOLARLY BACKGROUND IN THE FIELD

In 2004, the book titled Mexican Law which Mr. Lopez co-authored was published by Oxford University Press. Mexican Law is viewed as the leading English-language treatise in the field.

In addition, Mr. Lopez wrote the chapter on “The Legal System of Mexico” that appears in William Hein & Co.’s 20-volume Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia and the brief chapter on “Mexico’s Legal System” that appears in Transnational Publisher’s Doing Business in Mexico series.

EDUCATION

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Cambridge, Massachusetts Class of 1988, J.D., cum laude

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, School of Foreign Service, Washington, D.C. Class of 1985, B.S.F.S., magna cum laude.