Documentary Screening and Talk: Judges Under Threat in Mexico and Beyond

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The Rule of Law Lab at NYU School of Law is pleased to announce the upcoming launch of its new documentary: Losing Judgement: Mexico's Judicial Reform. The film explains how the reform dismissed approximately 7,000 judges and replaced merit-based judicial appointments with popular elections as the new system for selecting judges. 

The short film will be followed by a panel discussion on judges under threat in Mexico and beyond. Panelists will discuss the threat to judicial independence under autocratization: 

• Matthew Diller, Chair of the Independence of Lawyers and Judges Task Force, New York City Bar Association
• Justice Javier Laynez,  former Mexican Supreme Court judge
• Pablo Querubin, Professor of Politics and Economics, New York University 
• Margaret Satterthwaite, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Independence of Judges and Lawyers
• Amrit Singh, Professor of Practice and Faculty Director, Rule of Law Lab at NYU Law (Moderator)

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The film was co-produced by The Rule of Law Lab at NYU Law, Juicio Justo, and Konrad Adenaur Stiftung. 

Event co-sponsored by: The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS), Latinx Law Students Association, Law Students for Human Rights (LSHR), Liberal Studies Law Co-op, NYU Democracy Project, and the Rule of Law Lab