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April 9, 2026 - One year since “Liberation Day,” that marked the roll out of the current administration’s tariffs, the recent Trade Deals conference at the University of Houston Law Center examined recent developments involving U.S. trade.
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.”
