This is the website for the Trans-Border Institute (TBI) at the University of San Diego. Located just over 30 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border, the University of San Diego is home to numerous scholars and students interested and involved in a wide variety of trans-border issues.
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2008 Binational Summer Seminar on Border Studies in Tijuana This summer, the USD Trans-Border Institute will collaborate with the Universidad Iberoamericana in Tijuana to host the 2008 Binational Summer Seminar on Border Studies. The program will engage students in direct hands-on learning about the U.S.-Mexico border relationship, North America regional integration, and the dynamics of the new global economy. Upcoming TBI Events • June 17 - 18, 2008 Human Rights Workshop: Abuses at the Border Time: TBD Location: Joan B. Kroc building University of San Diego  "State Level Justice Reform Initiatives in Mexico" [ PDF (148.14 KB) ]
February 21, 2008 Over the past decade, there has been a growing call for reforms to Mexico's ailing justice system in order to address widespread public distrust, case backlogs, systemic corruption, and criminal impunity. In recent years, a number of Mexican scholars, experts and nongovernmental organizations have advocated reforms and innovations that would dramatically transform the administration of justice by blending elements of the accusatorial model found in the United States with Mexico's traditionally inquisitorial model, and adding new alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms that would alleviate the demands on Mexico's court system. Election 2008 - Voter Information 
Fall 2007 TBI Nexus NewsletterSelected Contents:
TBI Justice in Mexico Project publication: 
"Evaluating Accountability and Transparency in MexicoNational, Local, and Comparative Perspectives" by Editors Alejandra Rios Cazares and David A. Shirk This monograph includes works covering a wide range of topics relating to Mexico's justice system: effective enforcement of the law, government adherence to the law, and access to justice through law. Government accountability and transparency is the paramount theme in all these papers. |
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New TBI Mapping Project - The TBI Mapping Project provides demographic, socioeconomic, and political maps of the U.S.-Mexican border region and Mexico. Population density, unemployment rates, per capita income, and electoral results are among the many maps that are available through the TBI Mapping Project. |
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TBI Justice in Mexico Project - 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. Recent TBI Media Coverage: March 3, 2008 March 2, 2008 February 28, 2008 |
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