One of Mexico's top judges copied "a substantial part of content" for her 1987 thesis from another student's work presented a year earlier, her university said on Wednesday, following a plagiarism scandal made public last month.
Justice Yasmin Esquivel has been embroiled in controversy since December when local news outlet Latinus published accusations she had plagiarized the work, as she stood to potentially become the new head of the country's top tribunal.
Esquivel, who has repeatedly denied the accusations, lost a vote at the beginning of the month to justice Norma Pina, who became Mexico's first female Supreme Court president.
