Fernando Serrano Migallón was a Mexican jurist, historian and academic, an emeritus professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where he twice served as general counsel and led the Faculty of Law from 2000 to 2008. He helped draft Mexico’s Federal Copyright Law, directed the National Copyright Institute and was a member of the Mexican Academy of Language. He died on 27 October 2026, aged 81.

Born in Mexico City on 26 June 1945 to a family of Spanish Republican exiles, he wrote more than 50 books on constitutional history, intellectual property and the Spanish exile in Mexico.