En un article, publicat recentment a la revista Proceso, el doctor Villanueva va denunciar l'opacitat i moltes més presumptes irregularitats en la designació del director de l'IIJ, en què, presumptament, l'anterior director Diego Valadés també va participar.
In a recently published article in the magazine Proceso, Dr. Villanueva denounced the lack of transparency and other alleged irregularities that overshadowed the appointment of the director of the Institute for Legal Research, in which former Institute director Diego Valadés was also involved.