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.
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).
Dec. 3, 2025 ‒ University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo recently presented her chapter on the Path Forward for Environment in the USMCA, at a seminar hosted by the National Autonomous University of Mexico Institute for Legal Research (Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas) (UNAM-IIJ) for its upcoming book, “The End of Free Trade?: Challenges to International Trade and Investment Regulation in the Face of New Protectionism.”
Houston, Jan. 28, 2025 – University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo has been named a 2024-2025 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow and will spend the Spring semester at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (EUI).
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.
