Professor Chris Mirasola recently published Domestic Military Deployments and the Limitations of Appropriations Law in Lawfare. The piece argues that Congress's appropriations authority may be its best tool for limiting how executive branch officials deploy the military within the United States. You can find the piece at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/domestic-military-deployments-and-the-limitations-of-appropriations-law.
Professor Aman will be presenting on The Disclosure of Origin Requirement in the New WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge at the American Branch of the International Law Association's International Law Weekend this Saturday, https://www.ila-americanbranch.org/international-law-weekend/
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/
Dates: November 25-28, 2024 15-18h
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.
New Government in Mexico. What would the U.S. expect from the new administration?
The Center for U.S. and Mexican Law is pleased to announce a panel presentation discussing Mexico – USA interdependency in the energy sector and the potential scenarios under the new administration of President Claudia Sheinbaum. The panel will feature comments related to the power sector, the hydrocarbons industry and the most recent nearshoring investment wave which is pushing for a more pragmatic agenda with regard to foreign investment opportunities in Mexico.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
12:00 PM – 12:50 PM Central
In-Person and Virtual
University of Houston Law Center
John M. O’Quinn Law Building, Room 220
4170 Martin Luther King Blvd.
For more information, please email usmexlaw@uh.edu
Confusion continues over Texas immigration law
March 20, 2024 - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked Texas' new controversial immigration law from taking effect, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the law to go forward. The law lets local and state police arrest people in the country without documentation.
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Daniel Morales, a professor of law at the University of Houston.
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently published, The USMCA and the Environment: Setting Trends for Global and Regional Trade, in The Future of Trade: A North American Perspective (David A. Gantz and Tony Payan, eds, 2023). This was a grant-funded project sponsored by Rice University’s Bake Institute for Public Law and Policy Center for US-Mexico and the Charles Koch Foundation. You can use the picture of the book depicted here. More on this publication can be found here.
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.
Professor Trujillo publishes with Professor Sabrina Ragone from the University of Bologna, Global Challenges, Local Solutions: An Introduction to New Perspectives to International and Comparative Law, as an Introduction to the HJIL-GLPA Symposium series, and can be found here.
Confusion continues over Texas immigration law
March 20, 2024 - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked Texas' new controversial immigration law from taking effect, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the law to go forward. The law lets local and state police arrest people in the country without documentation.
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Daniel Morales, a professor of law at the University of Houston.
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently published, The USMCA and the Environment: Setting Trends for Global and Regional Trade, in The Future of Trade: A North American Perspective (David A. Gantz and Tony Payan, eds, 2023). This was a grant-funded project sponsored by Rice University’s Bake Institute for Public Law and Policy Center for US-Mexico and the Charles Koch Foundation. You can use the picture of the book depicted here. More on this publication can be found here.
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.
Professor Trujillo publishes with Professor Sabrina Ragone from the University of Bologna, Global Challenges, Local Solutions: An Introduction to New Perspectives to International and Comparative Law, as an Introduction to the HJIL-GLPA Symposium series, and can be found here.
Academic Partner
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.
Learn more about our Global and Graduate Programs.
Learn more about Global Law and Policy for the Americas Initiative.
UHLC Professor Elizabeth Trujillo receives the award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor at the 2024 UH Faculty Excellence Awards ceremony.
Confusion continues over Texas immigration law
March 20, 2024 - The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked Texas' new controversial immigration law from taking effect, hours after the Supreme Court allowed the law to go forward. The law lets local and state police arrest people in the country without documentation.
Here & Now's Deepa Fernandes speaks with Daniel Morales, a professor of law at the University of Houston.
Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently published, The USMCA and the Environment: Setting Trends for Global and Regional Trade, in The Future of Trade: A North American Perspective (David A. Gantz and Tony Payan, eds, 2023). This was a grant-funded project sponsored by Rice University’s Bake Institute for Public Law and Policy Center for US-Mexico and the Charles Koch Foundation. More on this publication can be found here.
Professor Gebru’s participated in the panel Beyond Multilateral Intellectual Property Law at International Law Week-end (Oct. 19-21, 2023) in New York City hosted by the American Branch of the International Law Association
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, https://law.uh.edu/glpa/
Professor Trujillo publishes with Professor Sabrina Ragone from the University of Bologna, Global Challenges, Local Solutions: An Introduction to New Perspectives to International and Comparative Law, as an Introduction to the HJIL-GLPA Symposium series, and can be found here: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4592455
Zachary D. Kaufman, "Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowships." Truman National Security Project. Aug. 18, 2022.
Upcoming Trade Forum, “The Future of Trade: A North American Perspective,” hosted by the Center for U.S. and Mexico of the Baker Institute at Rice University. Professor Trujillo will be a panelist at this event discussing the outcomes of the USMCA on environmental sustainability for North America. To register and for more information, please click here.
UH Law students are invited to register for the Careers & Internships in International Trade, Customs, and Export Controls Law discussion hosted by the Customs and International Trade Bar Association and the American Society of International Law. The meeting will be hosted by Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP and students are invited to join in person at their offices for a fun “watch party” with Akin Gump lawyers. Click here to register
