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Elizabeth Trujillo

• J.D. University of Houston Law Center '99
• B.A. University of Houston Honors College '92

Professor Elizabeth Trujillo is an assistant professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. She was formerly an associate at LeBoeuf, Lamb, Green and MacRae, LLP where she practiced in the areas of corporate law, project finance and international business transactions, with an emphasis on energy and Latin America.  She also served as a judicial intern at the National Commercial Appellate Court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and as an intern at the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Paris, France.

Her current research is in the areas of antitrust law and regulated industries, NAFTA, and international trade.  During 2005-2006, Professor Trujillo visited at Florida State University College of Law for one year where she taught Sales & Leases and NAFTA in the Fall 2005 and Summer 2006 semesters as well as Business Associations in the Spring 2006 semester. 

At UDM, Professor Trujillo works extensively with the J.D./L.L.B. program sponsored by UDM School of Law and the University of Windsor Faculty of Law in Ontario, Canada.  She, along with professors at the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey, Maestría en Derecho Comercial Internacional (LLM program in International Trade) have developed a NAFTA simulated arbitration course using videoconferencing in which Mexican, U.S., and Canadian students may participate together live on a NAFTA simulated arbitration problem.

Professor Trujillo will be teaching Contracts I & II, as well as Sales and Leases and NAFTA during the 2006-2007 academic year.  She is a board member for the American Society of Comparative Law and a member of various legal and academic organizations including: the American Society of International Law, the ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group, Midwestern Law and Economics Law Association, Law and Society, the ABA sections in Antitrust Law and International Law, the Texas-Mexico Bar as well as the National Hispanic Bar Association and the Texas and Michigan Hispanic Bar Associations.  She remains an active member of the Texas Bar.  Professor Trujillo is fluent in Spanish and French.

Selected Publications

• Mission Possible: Reciprocal Deference Between Domestic Regulatory Structures and the WTO, 40 CORNELL INT?L L. J. ___ (2007)
  
• State Action Antitrust Exemption Collides with Deregulation: Rehabilitating the Foreseeability Doctrine, 11 Fordham J. Corp. & Fin. L. 349 (2006)
• NAFTA as a Lesson for Globalization, Prologue, Introduction, U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. xi  (2004).  Also published in Spanish: TLCAN: Una Leción para la Globalización, Prólogo, 81 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev, vii  (2004)
• City of Boerne v. Flores: Religious Free Exercise Pays a High Price for the Supreme Court’s Retaliation on Congress, Student Note, 36 Hous. L. Rev. 645 (1999).

Selected Works in Progress

• NAFTA Parochialism to be presented at American Society of International Law, International Economic Law Interest Group Annual Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire (forthcoming November 9-12, 2006)
• International Trade and Domestic Regulatory Structures (co-authored piece with Jim Rossi at FSU College of Law, work in progress)