Dr. Bernardo Bolaños Guerra is a professor-researcher in the Department of Humanities at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Cuajimalpa Campus, in Mexico City. He earned his law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and completed master’s studies in History and in Philosophy of Science at UNAM and at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, where he also obtained his PhD in Philosophy and carried out postdoctoral research in Political Philosophy.

His academic work examines the relationships between science, law, politics, and society, with particular attention to contemporary issues related to globalization, migration, and biopolitics. His books include The Right to Education (ANUIES, 1996), Scientific Argumentation and Objectivity (UNAM, 2002), Introduction to the Thought of Blaise Pascal (UAM, 2009), and Slaves, Migrants, and Drug Traffickers: Event and Biopolitics in North America (UAM–Juan Pablos, 2013). He also edited the collective volume Biopolitics and Migration: The Missing Link of Globalization (UAM, 2015).

He served as a visiting professor at the University of Toronto between 2022 and 2023. His current research focuses on the rights of migrants displaced by environmental causes, environmental ethics, and Mexican environmental law. He currently coordinates a doctoral seminar together with Professors Maximiliano Martínez and Jorge Galindo.