Ep 59: Navigating the Legal Landscape: Insights from Mexico's Successful Woman Lawyer, Claudia Aguilar Barroso

Atalanta Diaries Breakthrough Women in Conversation with Enma Popli

Feb 9 2024 • 50 mins

Claudia Aguilar Barroso, a distinguished lawyer from the Escuela Libre de Derecho, is the founding partner and director of the Aguilar Barroso Abogados firm. The firm was founded in 2009 and specializes in constitutional, administrative, regulatory, and human rights litigation.

Claudia is also a professor of the constitutional procedural law course at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, where she served as a member of its Board of Directors from 2018 to 2022. She served as a deputy in the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City from September 2016 to January 2017.

Member of the Mexican Bar-College of Lawyers, A.C. Since June 2003, she has been Coordinator of the Mexico City Commission and the Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Amparo Commission. She is currently a member of the Board of Directors and Advisor of her Foundation.

She has specialization studies in Public Services, Hydrocarbons, Electric Energy, Telecommunications, and Water, taught jointly by the Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), the Carlos III University of Madrid, and the Ciudad Argentina Graduate School. And High Training in Constitutional Justice and Jurisdictional Protection of Human Rights" at the University of Pisa.

In her pro bono work, Claudia has successfully accompanied litigation in education, health, bullying and rights of indigenous peoples and communities, and violence against women and children, among others.

Claudia has participated in multiple conferences on topics of constitutional law, constitutional procedural law, and human rights and gender. She is a guest columnist for SIEMPRE magazine and regularly participates as an analyst on legal issues in Adela Micha's information space and various media by invitation.


Key themes emerging out of our conversation:

  • Navigating Unfairness
  • Journey of Self-Discovery
  • Rejecting the Superwoman Syndrome
  • The Modern Woman Lawyer's Perspective
  • Success Factors, Importance of Social Network
  • Need for Resilience, even for the most Intelligent
  • The transformative shift from Overconfidence to Wisdom
  • A Holistic approach, listening to Physical and Emotional cues
  • Representation Matters, building a Diverse Legal Environment
  • Law School Realities and Early Shocks, the Foundation for Personal and Professional Growth.


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