Luis Chico Goerne (1892–1960) was a Mexican lawyer, academic, and

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. He was an expert in

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who wrote and lectured in the fields of

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and

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and made significant contributions to Mexico's

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of 1929 and 1931. Goerne studied at the

Universidad de Guanajuato The Universidad de Guanajuato (in English, the University of Guanajuato) is a university based in the Mexican state of Guanajuato, made up of about 33,828 students in programs ranging from high school level to the doctorate level. Over 17,046 of ...

, where he received the title of lawyer in 1915. He later moved to

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, where he was a professor at the

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until 1923 when he accepted a role as professor at the National School of Jurisprudence at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (Spanish: ''Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México'', UNAM). In August 1929, he was appointed director of the Faculty of Law at UNAM, shortly after the university was given autonomy. He served as

of the school from 1935 to 1938.

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20th-century Mexican lawyers 1892 births 1960 deaths Academic staff of the National Autonomous University of Mexico People from Guanajuato {{Mexico-law-bio-stub