Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
Luis practiced law in Mexico, where he achieved several years of experience in litigation, consultancy and legal and policy research. He was a high level policy advisor to Mexican President Vicente Fox’s transitional government.
Luis pursued his Ph. D. in Human Rights in Spain, at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. He has taught in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional law, international law, legal research and human rights in several universities in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Canada and Australia. His main research interests are Human Rights; Political Theory; Cultural Legal Studies; Third World Approaches to International Law; Utopianism; Law and Literature; Law and Popular Culture; Critical Legal Theory; Feminist Jurisprudence; Latin American History and Politics and European History and Politics.
Mexican president suffers setback in country's deadliest election in decades
Jun 08, 2021 12:09 pm UTC| Politics
Mexicans turned away from President Andrés Manuel López Obradors party in the countrys June 6, 2021, midterm election, widely seen as a referendum on his administrations self-proclaimed transformation of...
Cartel kingpin El Chapo is jailed for life, but the US-Mexico drug trade is booming
Jul 21, 2019 11:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín Archivaldo Guzmán Loera aka El Chapo has been sentenced to life plus an additional 30 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, money laundering and weapons charges,...
Mexican president López Obrador has a woman problem
Jul 14, 2019 13:17 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After the leftist firebrand Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Mexican presidency in a landslide last year, he vowed to govern for all, starting with the poor. In Mexico, the poor includes many women, who...
El Chapo trial shows why a wall won't stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border
Jan 20, 2019 09:29 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The trial of Mexican drug kingpin Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera has exposed just how powerful Mexicos cartels really are. The trial has now run for two months. On Jan. 15, a Colombian drug trafficker who...
Massacres, disappearances and 1968: Mexicans remember the victims of a 'perfect dictatorship'
Oct 09, 2018 13:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Ten days before the opening ceremony of the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, uniformed soldiers and rooftop snipers opened fire on student protesters in a plaza in the capital citys Tlatelolco neighborhood. Hundreds...
Twin earthquakes expose Mexico's deep inequality
Sep 21, 2017 14:54 pm UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Early in the morning on Sept. 16, 1810, priest Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla rang the bell of his church in the small town of Dolores, near Guanajuato, Mexico. His parishioners gathered round, and he urged them to revolt...
NAFTA's biggest loser: the US, after Canada and Mexico get rich trading marijuana
May 16, 2017 15:49 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, prides himself on his business acumen. But his protectionism may get America a truly bad deal when it comes to North Americas next big market: marijuana. Fulfilling a...