Crafting Courts in New Democracies: The Politics of Subnational Judicial Reform in Mexico and Brazil

January 27th, 5:00 p.m.
Institute of the Americas Complex, Deutz Room

Discussant: Eric Olson, Senior Advisor, Security Initiative, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Mexico Institute

Matthew Ingram is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science and law degree from the University of New Mexico. Dr. Ingram has written papers including «Trends in Multi-Method Research: Sailing Ahead, Reckoning with Old Risks and New,» «Peace by Design: Institutional Choices and the Risk of Armed Conflict in Democracies,» and «Rule of Law and Democracy: Conceptual and Causal Issues from a Comparative Perspective.» His comparative and interdisciplinary research in politics and law seeks a better understanding of the sources of strong institutions, state building, and democracy.

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January 25, 2010

CLAS and other Events at SDSU
Mexico in 2010: A Chronicle of a Revolution Foretold

A talk by John Gibler, author of Mexico Unconquered
Thursday, January 28th @ 5:30pm
SDSU Library, LL 430
Event co-sponsored by SDSU Library, Center for Latin American Studies, and Colectivo Zapatista Tzajalek 32
For more info: tzajalek32@gmail.com

This event is free and part of a month long series of events in the San Diego community that commemorate the uprising of the Zapatistas in January of 1994. For other events please visit: enerozapatista .wordpress.com
Events outside SDSU
None at this time.
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Call for papers of the 18th GERPISA International Colloquium

Ver convocatoria aquí

Universidad de Colima

Con el propósito de honrar la vigorosa personalidad del autor de la expropiación petrolera y la independencia económica de México, el 18 de Marzo de 1983, la Universidad de Colima instituyó la Medalla «Gral. Lázaro Cárdenas del Río» que ha venido siendo otorgada anualmente desde 1984, a una persona o Institución que reúna los méritos y cualidades humanísticas, que les hagan merecedoras a recibir dicho reconocimiento, seleccionadas entre las propuestas por Asociaciones Universitarias, Científicas, Literarias, Políticas, Campesinas, Laborales, Educativas, Estudiantiles y de Servicio al País.
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