Alberto Gelacio Pérez Dayán (born December 13, 1960) is an associate justice of the

Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation The Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation ( es, Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (SCJN) is the Mexican institution serving as the country's federal high court and the spearhead organisation for the judiciary of the Mexican Federal Go ...

. President

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nominated him to the Supreme Court in 2010 and 2012, being elected by the

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by a majority of 104 votes on December 3, 2012. He serves at the Second Chamber of the Court. Pérez Dayán attended Universidad La Salle, where he obtained his law degree in 1984. He holds a Masters and a Ph.D. Degree in administrative law by National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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