This summer the Trans-Border Institute is pleased to welcome two visiting scholars, Gayle Hazard and Viridiana Ríos.  Hazard is a master's degree student from the Media, Peace and Conflict program in the Peace and Conflict Department at the UN-Mandated University for Peace in Costa Rica, and will be based at TBI with a special focus on recent drug violence in Mexico.  Ríos is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Government at Harvard University, and will be working on her dissertation research on the politics of drug trafficking, and the causes behind drug violence spikes in Mexico.  For further information about our visiting scholars please contact Hazard at ghazard@sandiego.edu or Ríos at vrios@sandiego.edu.

On December 18, 2009, a team of independent U.S. and Mexican researchers presented the results of the study titled Justiciabarómetro: Zona Metropolitana de Guadalajara (Justice Barometer: Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone), a survey of local police to incoming elected officials. The Justiciabarómetro forms part of the Justice in Mexico Project at the University of San Diego’s Trans-Border Institute, which provides policy analysis and recommendations concerning the rule of law in Mexico. The Justice in Mexico Project is generously supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and The Tinker Foundation. (Read More)