The 11th International and Comparative Urban Law Conference
Taking place in Mexico City,
Tuesday, May 12 - Thursday, May 14, 2026.
DAY ONE - Tuesday, May 12th
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8:00 am: Shuttle from the Holiday Inn Express Mexico City Satelite (Google Maps Link) to UNAM
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8:30 am: Registration
9:00 am – 9:30 am: Opening Remarks
Location: Congress Unit CEMMM
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Dr. Enrique Soto Alva: Director General of Metropolitan and Regional Planning of the Secretariat of Agrarian, Urban and Territorial Development SEDATU
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Mr. Aaron Saiger: Fordham Urban Law Center
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Mr. Pablo Aguilar Gonzalez: President, CJUR International
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Ms. Fernanda Lonardoni: UN Habitat Mexico
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Mtra. Nora del Consuelo Goris Mayans: Director of UNAM FES Acatalán - Official Opening Declaration
9:30 am – 11:00 am: Plenary Session
Location: Congress Unit CEMMM
Moderator: Alfredo Manrique Reyes​
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Director General of Metropolitan and Regional Planning of the Secretariat of Agrarian, Urban and Territorial Development SEDATU - Dr. Enrique Soto Alva, Paper Title TBA
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UN Habitat - Anne Amin, Enhancing Urban Law to Protect Housing, Land and Property Rights
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ULC Fordham - Norrinda Brown, Thermal Punishment in Prison Neighborhoods
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CJUR International - Pablo Aguilar González, Urban Legislation in Times of Global Crisis: Towards a Transformative Legal Model
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UNAM FES Acatlán - Mr. David Morillón Gálvez
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11:00 am – 11:30 am: Coffee Break
11:30 am – 1:00 pm: Parallel Sessions
Session Theme: ZONING
Puebla Oaxaca Hall
Moderator: Mauricio Alberto Palacios Elizalde
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Ruth Camacho Alcocer - Ordering tourism as conservation is ordered: the Sustainable Tourism Development Zone as an instrument of comparative urban law
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Nate Ela - Science and Social Order in the City: Making the Case for Scientific Zoning in the 1920s
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Noah Kazis - Rezoning the Rust Belt
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Yustina Trihoni Nalesti Dewi - Urban Co-Location and Civilian Risk: Peacetime Governance for Protection
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Session Theme: HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION
Quintana Roo - Querétaro Hall
Moderator: Arturo Tovar Goris
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Mtra. Diana Arteaga Macías - The lack of harmonization of mobility laws in Mexico as a limitation on urban development
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Alessandra Mattoscio - The European Public and Social Housing: a renewed perspective
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Kenneth A. Stahl - Our Housing Crisis of Indecision
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1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm: Parallel Sessions
Session Theme: PROPERTY LAW AND PUBLIC SPACES
Puebla Oaxaca Hall
Moderator: Alejandra Vianey Arredondo Vázquez
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Kristen Barnes - Urban Governance, International Law, Public Memory, and Cultural Heritage
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Dr. Hassan El-Mouelhi - Politicized urban law and the production of sectarian space
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Melvin J. Kelley IV - Property & Equity for Local Democracy
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Papon Kumar Dev - Public Space, Power, and the Right to the City: Evidence from Dhaka and Berlin
Session Theme: CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Quintana Roo - Querétaro Hall
Moderator: Aldo Ferreti Marín
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Antonio Peniche Gallareta - The Importance of the Environmental and Urban Justice Prosecutors Office of Yucatán
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Steven Nelson - Student Codes of Conduct and the Implementation of the Criminal Code in Urban Environments
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Ji Seon Song - Crisis Policing
4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Parallel Sessions
Session Theme: LEGISLACIÓN, DERECHOS Y NUEVA AGENDA URBANA - SPANISH LANGUAGE
Puebla Oaxaca Hall
Moderator: Alfonso Barrero Gutiérrez
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Maricela Gómez Rábago - Derecho a la Ciudad en Latinoamérica: Retos y oportunidades
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Luis Rubén Hernandez Vasquez - Método para Analizar Problemáticas de Derecho Urbanístico y Plantear Respuesta Con Enfoque De Derechos Humanos y Derecho A La Ciudad
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D. H. Ricardo Huchim Varguez - La participación ciudadana efectiva en la planeación urbana: un análisis jurídico-comparado desde el ámbito municipal en México
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José Hiram Jiménez Hernández - Instrumentos Notariales en el Urbanismo
Session Theme: GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES
Quintana Roo - Querétaro Hall
Moderator: Oscar Rubén Renucci González
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Edward W. De Barbieri - Locating Community Benefits
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Gowri Krishna - Designing State Institutions for the Solidarity Economy
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Nadav Shoked - Cities Suing Cities
CULTURAL HERITAGE EXPERIENCE
5:30 pm - 8:00 pm: Templo Mayor Museum
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GROUP DINNER
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Restaurant: Matisse
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​​After dinner: Shuttle back to the Holiday Inn Express Mexico City Satelite
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