Don Ignacio Medina Lima

He was born in Mexico City on January 19, 1905, to Ignacio Medina Ruiz and Jacinta Lima de Medina. He graduated from the National School of Jurisprudence, now the Faculty of Law of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. True to his vocation for teaching law, he was a full professor of "Procedural and Civil Law" and "General Theory of Process" from 1935, in addition to teaching at other seminars. He taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico at the National Preparatory School and the Free School of Law. He was a pioneer in the "General Theory of Procedural Law in Mexico" and dedicated much of his career to research in this field, which led him to found the Mexican Institute of Procedural Law in 1958. His passion for law was always accompanied by his strong social convictions, which, toward the end of his life, led him to dedicate his assets to the creation of a welfare institution, the Ignacio Medina Lima Foundation (IAP), established in 1994 and which for many years operated a senior care home in the Coyoacán municipality. Through the Private Assistance Board (JAP), the Bringas-Haghenbeck Foundation (IAP), he accepted the challenge of sharing his administrative knowledge with the Ignacio Medina Lima Foundation to help it restore its services, with which he merged in 2007.