Biography
Elizabeth Trujillo is the Mary Ann & Lawrence E. Faust Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas. She is currently a recipient of the Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the European University Institute (spring 2025). Prior to joining the University of Houston in 2019, she was Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law (2016-2019), and at Suffolk University School of Law in Boston (2007-2016) where she received the 2012 Latina Trailblazer Award by the Hispanic National Bar chapter, Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys. She has also been a Visiting Professor at Florida State University School of Law (2005-2006), a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University Law School (2011-2012), and an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Law and International Law (2015-2016).
Professor Trujillo writes and teaches in international trade and investment law, USMCA, sustainable development and energy, contracts, and international law, using comparative law methods. Her recent work, which can be found in several journals like the Journal of International Economic Law (OUP), Duke Journal of International and Comparative Law, Boston College Law Review, and Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (peer review), examines trade considerations for domestic decarbonization strategies in the context of changing international economic legal frameworks, environmental justice, and constitutional rights on nature, with an emphasis on the Americas, and on the models for international trade policy that better serve sustainable development principles. During her time at the EUI, Professor Trujillo will be writing her book with Cambridge University Press, SHATTERED PRISMS: USING FRAGMENTATION TO RECONFIGURE TRADE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.
She is also co-authoring a chapter entitled, Legal Transfers in International Trade: Linking the Local with Global for an Oxford University Press book, COMPARATIVE TRADE LAW. In 2024, she received the Global Faculty Award from the University of Houston Provost Office her work as Founding director of the Initiative on Global Law and Policy for the Americas in furthering internationally focused teaching, research or service.
Professor Trujillo will be inducted into the University of Houston President’s 2025 Circle Awards which celebrates faculty that have published in high-impact publications and have received national recognition and grant awards. Professor Trujillo is an elected member of the American Law Institute.