Professor Mariana Moranchel Pocaterra holds a Ph.D. in Law from the Faculty of Law of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). She holds a Master's Degree in Legal Teaching from Universidad La Salle, Mexico. She holds a law degree from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She has a post-doctorate in New Technologies and Law from the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research (MICHR) at the Mediterranean University, Department of Law, Economics and Humanities, Reggio Calabria. She is a National System of Researchers Member and has a Level I.

Professor at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Cuajimalpa Campus, and at the Law School of the UNAM at undergraduate and graduate levels. Director of undergraduate, master's, and doctoral theses in her research areas.

She is a member of the Editorial Committee of the Journal of the Law School of the UNAM and the Advisory Board of the Journal of the Spanish Association of Accreditation for Transparency. Member of the Academic Council of the Instituto de Especialización en Justicia Administrativa, Tribunal de Justicia Administrativa de la Ciudad de México.

Professor Moranchel has been a lecturer in different forums on topics related to the History of Law, the Anticorruption System, Administrative Justice, Access to public information through historical archives, and Information and Communication Technologies as an enabling human right, among others.

Some of her recent publications:
Books: "Roman Law and Legal Science. Tribute to Dr. Sara Bialostosky Barshavsky", Tirant Lo Blanch, Facultad de Derecho, UNAM, Mexico, 2021 (coordinator). Avatars of Digitalization in University Education" (coordinator), Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, 2020 (coordinator). "Compendium of Roman Law", Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico, 2017.

Articles in indexed journals: "Andamiaje jurídico y práctica política en torno al indulto en el México pos-independiente", in Clío & Crimen, nº 18 (2021). "Las Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación en la Justicia Administrativa: de la Emergencia a su Plena Incorporación", Revista de la Facultad de Derecho de México, Volume LXXI, Number 280-2, May-August 2021. "Dialogue in technology-mediated education," Brazilian Journal of Business, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2021, San José dos Pinhais, Paraná, Brazil. "Public administration, corruption and human rights," Revista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo, Santa Fe, Argentina, Vol. 7, no. 1, January-June 2020. "Public administration, corruption and human rights", Revista Eurolatinoamericana de Derecho Administrativo, Santa Fe, Argentina, Vol. 7, No. 1, January-June 2020.

Book chapters: "A propósito del artículo 123 Constitucional: Embarazo y maternidad: la desventaja laboral de la mujer en México", in Contreras Bustamante Raúl, et. al, Principales Derechos de las Mujeres en la Constitución Política de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, Tirant Lo Blanch, Facultad de Derecho, UNAM, Mexico, 2021, pp. 497-518. "Derechos habilitantes y formación universitaria", in Peñalosa Castro, Eduardo, Moranchel Pocaterra, Mariana, et. al., "Avatares de la Digitalización en la Formación Universitaria", (co-author), UAM, 2020, pp. 23-52.