A full time Professor at ITAM’s Law Department, Alejandro Rodiles teaches public international law as well as law and global governance. He earned his law degree (LL.B.) from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He completed his doctoral studies (summa cum laude) at Humboldt University, Berlin. In June 2016, his PhD thesis was awarded the Faculty Prize of the Faculty of Law of Humboldt University. From the thesis he developed his book Coalitions of the Willing and International Law published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press; this work was awarded with the European Society of International Law (ESIL) Book Prize . Before returning to ITAM in 2024, Professor Rodiles from 2022-24 held a Chair at the University of Jena in Germany. Earlier he was also a Senior Associate Fellow in the "Investigation Group Berlin-Potsdam (KFG): International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?", a lecturer at UNAM’s Faculty of Law, and a research fellow at Humboldt University. He is a member of the International Law Association (ILA, Mexican Branch), participating in ILA’s Study Groups on UN sanctions, as well as on cities and international law. He is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Mexican Yearbook of International Law (AMDI).

Alejandro Rodiles was the legal adviser of the Permanent Mission of Mexico to the United Nations, in New York, during Mexico’s past non-permanent membership in the UN Security Council (2009-2010). Previously, he served as director of international law at the Office of the Legal Adviser at the Mexican Foreign Ministry, and as junior adviser at the Policy Planning Staff of the Foreign Minister.

His research interests lie in international treaty law, international security law, infrastructure, resilience, and 'planetary' issues, as well as the role of national courts in the development of international law. He is also interested in Mexican foreign policy and its relation with international law. His research focus has been on the ways international law is changing today because of global governance, in particular on the interplay between formal (classical) international law and informal transnational normative regimes. He is actively involved in the InfraReg project of the NYU IILJ.