2012 Visiting Scholar
The Trans-Border Institute is pleased to welcome Visiting Scholar Constanza Sánchez Avilés. Ms. Avilés is a PhD candidate in international relations at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Spain. Since 2007 she has worked as a teaching assistant at the Department of Public International Law and International Relations at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where she completed her master thesis, entitled "The US war on drugs in Latin America. A study of new forms of hegemonic action". Ms. Avilés has been a visiting scholar at the University of Miami in 2010 and did fieldwork on drug policies in Peru 2009. If you would like to contact Ms. Avilés please email transborder@sandiego.edu.
A research project by the USD Trans-Border Institute (TBI) dedicated to the rule of law and justice reform in Mexico. The TBI Justice in Mexico Project coordinates and disseminates research on three major components of the rule of law: (1) order; (2) accountability and; (3) Equal access to justice.