of the Federal District and Mr. José Luis Caballero Ochoa, Coordinator of the Human Rights Master’s Program of the Ibero-American University; 10) Ms. Úrsula C. Basset, a professor and researcher at the University of Buenos Aires15; 11) Ms. Judith Butler, professor of the Maxine Elliot Program at the University of California, at Berkeley; 12) Mr. Alejandro Romero Seguel and Ms. Maite Aguirrezabal Grünstein, Doctors of Law at Navarra University and Procedural Law professors; 13) Mr. Carlos Álvarez Cozzi, Professor of Private Law at the Economic Sciences and Administration School and Associate Professor of Private International Law at the Law School of the University of the Republic of Uruguay; 14) Mr. James J. Silk, Director of Allard K. Lowenstein, Legal Clinic on Human Rights, of Yale University Law School; 15) Ms. María Sara Rodríguez Pinto, Doctor of Law at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Professor of Civil Law; 16) Ms. Natalia Gherardi, Executive Director of the Equipo Latinoamericano de Justicia and Género, and Ms. Josefina Durán, Director of that organization’s Law Department; 17) Ms. Laura Clérico, Ms. Liliana Ronconi, Mr. Gustavo Beade and Mr. Martín Aldao, professors and researchers at the University of Buenos Aires Law School; 18) Messrs. Carlo Casini, Antonio Gioacchino Spagnolo and Joseph Meaney16; 19) from the Chancellor and some members of the Universidad Católica Santo Toribio de Mogrovejo17; 20) Ms. María del Pilar Vásquez Calva, Coordinator of Enlace Gubernamental de Vida and Familia A.C.; 21) Ms. Suzanne B. Goldberg and Mr. Michael Kavey, lawyers at Sexuality & Gender Law Clinic of Columbia University and Ms. Adriana T. Luciano, an attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrisson LLP; 22) Ms. Elba Nuñez Ibáñez, Gabriela Filoni, Jeannette Llaja and Mr. Gastón Chillier18; Mr. 23) Mr. Brent McBurney and Mr. Bruce Abramson, attorneys at Advocates International; 24) Ms. Gail English, President of Lawyers Christian Fellowship, and Ms. Shirley Richards; 25) Colombia Diversa and Centro de Derechos Humanos y Litigio Internacional19; 26) Messrs. Piero A. Tozzi and Brian W. Raum of Alliance Defense Fund; 27) Mr. Jorge Rafael Scala, Professor of the postgraduate program on Human Development at the Universidad Libre Internacional de las Américas and Honorary Professor at Universidad Ricardo Palma; 28) the Center for Global Justice, Human Rights and the Rule of Law [Centro para la Justicia Global, los Derechos Humanos y el Estado de Derecho] of the Law School at 15 Ms. Ursula C. Basset is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Academy for the Study of Jurisprudence on Family [Academia International para la Jurisprudencia sobre la Family] and the Board of Directors of the International Society of Family Law. 16 Mr. Carlo Casini is a member of the European Parliament, President of the Constitutional Affairs Commission of the European Parliament and President of the Italian Pro-Life Movement. Mr. Antonio Gioacchino Spagnolo is a professor of Bioethics and Director of the Bioethics Institute of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome. Mr. Joseph Meaney is the director of international coordination at Human Life International. 17 The brief was signed by Mr. Hugo Calienes Bedoya, Chancellor and Director of the Institute of Bioethics at USAT, and by Mr. Carlos Tejeda Lombardi, Director of the USAT Law School, Mr. Rafael Santa Maria D’Angelo, Coordinator of the Department of History and Philosophy of Law, Mr. Javier Colina Seminario, legal adviser at USAT, Ms. Rosa Sánchez Barragán, Coordinator of the Department of Civil Law, Ms. Erika Valdivieso López, Dean of the Faculty of Law of USAT, Ms. Angelica Burga Coronel, Professor of Legal Protection of Rights, Ms. Ana María Olguín Britto, Director of the Science Institute for Marriage and the Family of USAT and Ms. Tania Díaz Delgado, all professors of the Law School and the Science Institute for Marriage and the Family of the Catholic University of Santo Toribio of Mongrovejo. 18 Ms. Elba Nuñez Ibañez is the Regional Coordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM). Ms. Gabriela Filoni is responsible for the Litigation Support Program of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights (CLADEM). Ms. Jeannette Llaja is a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights of Peru. Mr. Gaston Chillier is the Executive Director of the Center of Legal and Social Studies. 19 The brief was filed by Ms. Marcela Sánchez Buitrago, Executive Director of Colombia Diversa, and Mr. Mauricio Noguera Rojas and Mr. Santiago Medina Villareal, on behalf of Colombia Diversa; and Ms. Viviana Bohórquez Monsalve, on behalf of Human Rights and International Litigation Center [Centro de Derechos Humanos y Litigio Internacional]. 7