The relationship between nations and the international landscape is changing. Global Law and Policy for the Americas provides a platform in which to examine new legal frameworks for addressing global challenges in coordination with local solutions. Specifically, it focuses on the role of the Americas in shaping global law and policy and on the ways that domestic law and policy in the different regions of the Americas connect with the global. NAFTA renegotiations have highlighted a redefining of North America and its role in the world. New economic players, technological innovation, and environmental challenges are changing the marketplace, questioning globalization, shifting global power dynamics, and impacting the future of international law and its institutions. Law shapes society, motivates behavior, and creates incentives for action. The 20th century marked important changes in the role of law, domestic and international, for the Americas, with reemerging democracies and new markets. The Americas are rich in resources, diverse in cultures, and a source of economic power and will continue to play an important role in the future of global law and policy. GLPA considers these shifts in international law and policy and emphasizes the interplay between the global to the local.
Dates: November 25-28, 2024 Central European time (15-18h EU central time)
Venue: University of Bologna - Forlì Campus, Teaching Hub, Aula 25, Via dei Corridoni 20, 47121 Forlì
For more information on “Sustainability Week” at the University of Bologna, see click here.
Presentations will also be livestreamed. If you would like to participate online, please contact Elizabeth Trujillo at eitrujil@central.uh.edu and Marcin Baranski at marcin.baranski@unibo.it for registration information.
There are 10 spots available to UHLC students to participate in the program. If you are interested, please contact GLPA director, Elizabeth Trujillo at eitrujil@central.uh.edu and Executive Director of Global Graduate Programs, Karen Jones at kjones15@central.uh.edu for more information.
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently spoke on Teaching Comparative Law in Trade and Sustainable Development on a panel on and chaired a panel on Legal Heterodoxy in the Global South, at the American Society of Comparative Law 2024 Annual Meeting on “Innovation and Sustainability: Comparative Law for a Better World,” hosted by Texas A&M University School of Law, https://ascl.org/ascl-events/
GLPA is proud to announce the Houston Journal of International Law (HJIL) Symposium Issue 45:1 that summarizes the papers and presentations from the GLPA webinar series, “Constitutionalism, Trade, Social Justice, & Sustainability in the Americas: Lessons from the 2020 Global Pandemic,“ and the follow-up webinar, “Global Challenges, Local Solutions: Supply Chains, Sustainability, and Governance.” For more information on the publication, click here.
The Introduction to the Symposium series, Global Challenges, Local Solutions: An Introduction to New Perspectives to International and Comparative Law, can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4592455
Many thanks to all the speakers and authors who participated in this event, and to HJIL for its editorial support and co-sponsorship; to the University of Bologna Department of Political and Social Sciences and its Center for Latin American Studies for co-sponsoring and co-hosting this series; to my co-host and co-author Professor Sabrina Ragone, and to the American Society of International Law-Latin American Interest Group for co-hosting the first GLPA webinar series. We hope that the research outcomes from this collaborative project will inspire more research, dialogue, and scholarship on cutting-edge topics that implicate the delicate overlap of the local with the global, impacting our region and the world today.
Elizabeth Trujillo
Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law
Founding Director, Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the America
We are excited to announce our academic partnership with the University of Bologna, Italy. This collaboration brings together researchers from Bologna’s Department of Political Science and Social Sciences and UH Law Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas for collective research on the Americas and international law. This partnership will also bring about more opportunities for faculty and students of both institutions for international exchanges, collective research and other mutually beneficial collaborations.
