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Professor Carlos Humberto Durand Alcántara has a Postdoctorate in Rural Sociology from the University of Córdoba Spain, 2008; a Doctorate in Legal Anthropology, with Honorable Mention from the Institute of Anthropological Research of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), 1995; a Master´s in Rural Sociology from the Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, 1988. Master in Agrarian Law, as a scholarship holder from the Ford Foundation, from the Universidad de Los Andes 1990; and graduated in Law from UNAM, 1980.

Author, co-author, and coordinator of more than one hundred books in Agrarian Law, Indigenous Law, Legal Anthropology, Sustainability, and Legal Sociology. Author of more than one hundred articles in specialized magazines on issues of Agrarian Law, Indian Rights, legal anthropology, human rights, and social law of Austria, Argentina, Germany, Croatia, Cuba, Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Spain, Scotland, Ecuador, United States, France, Guatemala, Italy, Mexico, Japan, Portugal, Russia, Salvador, and Venezuela.

Speaker at more than 220 national and international events. Member of CONACYT research commissions, 2001 to 2005, 2009, 2011, 2014, and 2015. Through UAM Azcapotzalco campus, Advisor- researcher of Federal programs of the Presidency of the Republic, periods of Ernesto Zedillo and Vicente Fox.

CONACULTA National Mention, - INI 1992, for the book Indian Rights in Mexico. Recognition of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, 2001, for agricultural research. Recognition as professor - researcher, years 2010 and 2011 by the CDMX Government, period of Marcelo Ebrard.
UAM Azcapotzalco campus Teaching Award, years 2010 and 2012. Recognition of the government of the Mexican Republic for its research in the field of agrarian law and Indian peoples, and the Andrés Molina Enríquez medal, 2013. Award for Research areas UAM Azcapotzalco campus, 2015 and 2016.

Recognition as a Professor with a desirable profile from the Ministry of Public Education, through the Undersecretariat for Higher Education and Scientific Research, from January 2003 to date. Creation of the Research Area on Human Rights and Social Legal Alternativity, in 2012 which he coordinated, until 2016.

Promoter for fourteen years of the creation of the Master's Degree in Law, approved by the UAM Academic College in 2016 and of which he was appointed Coordinator, until September 2019, this postgraduate course incorporated for the first time at the Latin American level as the line of research into Legal Anthropology and the rights of indigenous peoples and is currently part of CONACYT's postgraduate degrees of excellence.

Currently (2020), he is the Coordinator of the UAM Azcapotzalco campus Doctorate in Law project and International Coordinator of research networks in Poverty, Rural Development, and Indian Peoples. He is also a member of the Network on new slavery and human trafficking at the Ibero-American level and the Network Including the Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, as well as the Interuniversity Network of Higher Education and Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples in Latin America - RED ESIAL, based at the 3 de Febrero University of Buenos Aires Argentina.

Member during the last decade, of the editorial board of Alegatos magazine.