He is a Full-time Professor in the Department of Writing and Languages of the ITAM. He has a degree on Philosophy, a degree on History and a Ph. D. on Philosophy (all of them by the Universitat de Barcelona). Moreover, he did postgraduate studies on Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. In his career he has won several scholarships for research and cultural promotion, with which he has traveled to Athens, Hong Kong and Mexico.

He holds and LLB and a Ph.D from the University of Buenos Aires with a Ph.D. Thesis on Philosophy of Law. Additionally, he has a master’s degree in Criminal Law and Criminal Policy from the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne. He has taught at the University of Buenos Aires (Faculties of Law and Philosophy) and at other Universities in Argentina and elsewhere (Cergy-Pontoise) on Legal Theory, Criminal Law, Legal Research and Writing, and Contemporary Philosophy.

Jorge Rivera Noriega obtained the B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. As a fellow of the CONACYT-Fulbright-García Robles program he pursued the doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and upon obtaining the Ph. D. degree under supervision of Prof. Steve Hofmann, he took a three-year position as J. L. Doob Posdoctoral Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.