A new way to explain legislative reforms

Andrés Gallegos

The Laboratory for the Rule of Law and Public Advocacy at ITESO presented the first edition of Radar of Democracy and Justice , a monthly bulletin that will discuss and explain the initiatives and constitutional reforms already approved by the Congress of the Union and published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

Among the objectives of this document is to present to the public the most important legislative changes taking place in the country, using accessible language and format to encourage both academic and public discussions.

“It is an executive and informative document, designed to support decision-making in various sectors, including academia, specialists in the field, the general public, and citizens who are not experts in these topics. We explain the technical concepts as clearly as possible,” summarized Lorena Vázquez Correa, an academic at the Department of Sociopolitical and Legal Studies (Dsoj) of ITESO.

This effort aims to carve out a space and attract attention in a public arena full of debates on constitutional reforms and laws, in a political and social context in which many highly relevant initiatives are approved, such as the reform of the Judiciary or the new National Water Law.

“There are so many significant legislative reforms and modifications that one loses track of the exact issues, and Radar aims to recover precisely that technical precision: what happens with each reform, where it comes from, why, and what the dissenting arguments are,” Vázquez stated.

The bulletin will have a format with sections designed to explain the topics in a straightforward manner. The content will be divided into six points: “What was approved?”, “Dissenting arguments”, “Reservations approved”, “Data on the topic”, “Background”, and “Legislative summary”. The latter will detail the laws being amended, the committees that reviewed the reform, and the voting results in both the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate.

The first bulletin addresses the topic of the National Law to Eliminate Bureaucratic Procedures, in force since July 2025, which involves changes such as the creation of a Digital Transformation Agency and the creation of digital files with the personal information of each Mexican citizen.

Vázquez Correa emphasized that the bulletin focuses on initiatives already published in the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF) because they are laws that have already been approved and have a direct impact on citizens. “When you address decrees already published in the DOF, you are analyzing something that is already in effect and is exactly as it was after the legislative process; therefore, its useful life is just beginning.”

The academic added that the newsletter will have a pluralistic and nonpartisan tone. It will also offer links to primary sources such as initiatives discussed in the Congress of the Union or the full texts of the Official Gazette of the Federation (DOF).

With this, the ITESO Laboratory for the Rule of Law and Public Advocacy adds a new task of monitoring current legislation, along with other initiatives such as the Judicial Observatory, which will monitor the decisions made by the main courts of justice, starting with the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, or the Electoral Observatory, which will begin next year in preparation for the presentation of the initiative that will reform the electoral bodies.

The Democracy and Justice Radar can be consulted at https://ite.so/radar1 .