University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently served as a panelist at “The Future of North America,” a two-day conference focused on the region’s evolving economic and policy landscape.
Dec. 17, 2025 ‒ University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently served as a panelist at “The Future of North America,” a two-day conference focused on the region’s evolving economic and policy landscape. The conference was sponsored by El Colegio de México, and Georgetown University Law’s Center for the Advancement of the Rule of Law in the Americas (CAROLA) and its Institute of International Economic Law (IIEL).
She is the Mary Ann and Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas at UH Law.
The conference featured four expert panels of policy makers, private industry, and academics discussing the future of economic integration in North America, industrial policy and resilient regional supply chains, sustainability and energy, and migration and security cooperation in North America.
Professor Trujillo, a leading scholar in USMCA/NAFTA, international trade, and Latin American economic policy, participated on the Sustainability, Climate Change, and Green Energy Agenda Roundtable sharing her expertise on regional supply chains, environment, and critical minerals along with Texas A&M Professor Guillermo García Sánchez, and two professors from El Colegio de México, Professor Blanca Torres Ramírez, and Professor José María Valenzuela who discussed the electricity challenges and the potential for green energy agenda. The discussion was moderated by Georgetown Law Professor Kathleen Claussen.
A livestream recording of the conference is available: https://lnkd.in/eTqtUv98
