Juan Carlos Martínez is a doctor and master in Social Anthropology at the Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores de Antropología Social (CIESAS) and holds a law degree from UNAM. He has been a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca, Universidad de Chile and CIESAS. He has been a guest lecturer at the University of California at San Diego, the International Institute of Legal Sociology in Oñati, Spain, the University of Newcastle, England, the Andean University Simon Bolivar of Bolivia and the Institute of Higher National Studies of Ecuador. He is a specialist in Legal Anthropology, Legal Pluralism and Human Rights. He has been a consultant for the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Secretariat for Indigenous Affairs of the Government of the State of Oaxaca, the Oaxacan Women's Institute, the United Nations Development Program, the Supreme Court of Justice of Mexico and the Office Of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Mexico and Ecuador. He has given specialized courses on Legal Pluralism to judicial officials from Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
