The Escuela Libre de Derecho rendered a deserved tribute to Mr. Manuel Lizardi, counselor member of this firm, due to his naming as Professor Emeritus of the Escuela Libre de Derecho, and the publication of his work titled “Study of the General Corporations Act and Comments to its Articles”.
After over 70 years of legal practice and 46 years as professor of the First Course of Mercantile Law in the Escuela Libre de Derecho – without receiving any salary, as it is a tradition in the School, Mr. Manuel Lizardi received a well deserved tribute in a ceremony which took place in his honor on June 8, 2010 in the Industrial Club at Mexico City.
Mr. Manuel Lizardi is the third lawyer in the history of Mexico to receive the degree of Professor Emeritus of the Escuela Libre de Derecho, recognition that was given due to his “exemplary and brilliant path in teaching”. After almost 100 years of history and after having in its classrooms, as professors and alumni, two presidents of Mexico, justices of the Supreme Court of Justice and some of the most distinguished lawyers and notaries public, the Escuela Libre de Derecho has only given this distinction to three lawyers: Mr. Manuel Herrera y Lasso, Mr. Gustavo R. Velasco and now Mr. Manuel Lizardi, whom, unlike the others, never occupied a administrative position within the School.
Von Wobeser y Sierra is proud and joyful because of this recognition for Mr. Manuel Lizardi; only a few years before, the Mexican Bar Association gave Mr. Manuel the National Jurisprudence Prize (Premio Nacional de Jurisprudencia), the highest recognition that such Bar grants its members.
In the same ceremony, the book titled “Study of the General Corporations Act and Comments to its Articles”, written by Mr. Manuel Lizardi, published and distributed by Editorial Porrúa, was presented. This work, unique in Mexico, combines the experience and knowledge acquired by Don Manuel through his 46 years of teaching and 70 years of professional experience.