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GLOBAL OUTREACH
UH Law Center has greatly expanded its global held in Mexico City for the past three years.
outreach in several areas with the goal of raising
the school’s standing abroad and enhancing the Under the direction of Alfonso López de la Osa
educational experience here at home. Escribano, the Center for U.S. and Mexican Law
has organized or participated in a number of
Building on the success of the Center for U.S. seminars and conferences, ranging from Latin
and Mexican Law and other international American multiculturalism and the history of law,
programming at UH, Professor Elizabeth Trujillo human trafficking, NAFTA, and cross-border labor
will launch the Initiative on Global Law and Policy law issues. The Center also participates in joint
for the Americas, which will focus on the role of research projects on such major topics as the
the Americas in shaping global law and policy future relations of the two countries given recent
in specific areas of research. Such an initiative changes in political climates and the aftereffects
will contribute towards the organizational of Hurricane Harvey on the environment and
infrastructure at the Law Center as it relates to its communities.
international law programs. In order to coordinate graduate programs and
The Law Center has a long history of interaction extend the Law Center’s reach worldwide, Karen
on many levels with scholars, government officials, Jones, a graduate of the SMU Dedman School
and neighbor institutions to the south. An almost of Law, has been hired for the new position
30-year-old agreement annually brings diplomats of executive director of Global and Graduate
of the Mexican Foreign Ministry to the Law Center Programs. She will provide strategic vision,
to earn LL.M. degrees. These UHLC graduates have guidance, and direction to the operation of
served as Mexican ambassadors and the general all global and graduate programs, including
counsel of the Mexican Foreign Ministry, which is internships, visiting scholars, partnerships, and
the highest endorsement of the UHLC LL.M. degree. collaborations with law schools, domestic and
More recent agreements provide externships for international.
students to work in Mexico City with PEMEX, the The law school also produced 13 graduates of the
Mexican petroleum company, which is the largest International Energy Lawyers Program, a dual
company in Mexico, and also with the National degree J.D. initiative of the Law Center and the
Hydrocarbon Commission, a Mexican federal University of Calgary Faculty of Law, that allows
agency. The number of Law Center alumni working students to earn both U.S. and Canadian law
in Mexico is evident in the success of receptions degrees in four years.
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