The name of Yasmín Esquivel, minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN), is the main trend in Mexico this February 24. The reason: The country published that the judge received her doctorate in 2009 from the Anahuac University with a work that was plagiarized in at least half of its length.
According to the medium, of the 456 pages of his degree work, 209 are identical to other works, including the book “Fundamental rights in Mexico”, by the jurist Miguel Carbonell.
Esquivel’s doctoral thesis, always according to the contrast made by El País, corresponds to works previously published by 12 other authors.
Among them, there is a former rector of Unam; a former Spanish Minister of Culture; a former president of the Supreme Court of Spain; and a former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
Two of the authors confirmed to El País about the plagiarism.
It must be remembered that another Esquivel thesis, the one that gave him his degree in 1987, is being analyzed by UNAM.
In a first analysis, the high house of studies already said that it is a “substantial copy” of the postgraduate work of another student, which had been presented a year earlier.
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“In the case of my chapter, I have recognized it immediately, it is a textual, literal reproduction, of pages and pages. She does not put quotation marks, therefore it is a book plagiarism, what she has done is a cut and paste. It is evident that what she has done is copied directly. I have seen it right away. It is not a subtle matter. She has done it in a very crude way, ”José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, Spanish Minister of Culture and Sports between 2020 and 2021, told El País.
Today, Rodríguez Uribes works as an ambassador to Unesco.
Esquivel would have taken, without citing, the text “Rousseau and human rights” published by Uribes in “History of fundamental rights” (Dykinson, 1998), a large-scale work written in conjunction with other authors, who would also have been object of plagiarism.
Carbonell, a Mexican jurist, confirmed the cup for his book “Fundamental Rights in Mexico” that he published in 2004. “It’s plagiarism. If we understand by plagiarism to publish with your name a text that you did not write in an original way, it is plagiarism. There’s no other way to define it.” said the researcher.
According to El País, both Rodríguez Uribes and Carbonell were unaware when they were consulted that the thesis belonged to the minister of the Supreme Court of Mexico with the idea that her opinions were impartial.
Without counting the title, the index, the acknowledgments and the bibliographies, plagiarism is equivalent to 46.5 percent of the pages written in the thesis.
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