A faculty member at Yasmín Esquivel Mossa's alma mater has accused her of plagiarizing her 1987 undergraduate thesis. The scandal has ensnared two of Mexico’s most prestigious public institutions and laid bare the country’s polarized political climate.
Earlier this month, Yasmín Esquivel Mossa, a justice on Mexico’s Supreme Court, announced she was putting herself in the running to become the first woman to lead the court in its 198-year history.accused her of plagiarizingThe scandal has ensnared two of Mexico’s most prestigious public institutions — the Supreme Court and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, known as UNAM — and laid bare the country’s polarized political climate.
The court’s president holds the position for four years and decides when cases will be discussed and directs their public debates. The president also leads the Federal Judicial Council, which oversees the country’s federal courts. The university opened an investigation amid calls for scrutiny from the legal community and issued a statement last week saying that “there exists a high level of similarities between both texts.”
Esquivel’s claim only invited ridicule, launching a spate of memes based on the film “Back to the Future” thatand suggested he had traveled in time to steal Esquivel’s thesis. It is unclear what would happen if Esquivel is found guilty of plagiarism and loses her law degree, a requirement for Supreme Court justices. Justices can resign for “grave reasons” or be impeached in Congress.
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