University of Houston Law Center Professor Elizabeth Trujillo has been named a 2024-2025 Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow and will spend the Spring semester at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy (EUI).
The Braudel Fellowship provides a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI. Following the footsteps of other renowned scholars of comparative and international law who have been in residence at the EUI, Trujillo will be affiliated with the Department of Law where she will research and write her forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press, “Shattered Prisms: Using Fragmentation to Reconceptualize Trade for Sustainable Development.”
As part of the fellowship, Trujillo will also teach and engage in other scholarly activities at the EUI’s Department of Law, including teaching in graduate seminars and presenting her scholarship at various workshops. Her first presentation, “Environmental Justice in Trade: Perspectives from Latin America,” will be part of a February EUI Colloquium, “Conversations on Latin American International Law.”
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 joined the UH Law Center’s faculty in 2019. She was also the 2024 recipient of the UH Global Faculty Award.
“I am honored to have received this prestigious fellowship,” Trujillo said. “I look forward to carrying the banner of the University of Houston Law Center into this amazing research institution, and to collaborating with a global community of scholars on some of the most pressing global issues of our time.”
The European University Institute (EUI) is an interdisciplinary university and inter-governmental organization, born out of the spirit of cooperation at the Hague Conference of 1948, fully established in 1972 as a center for human sciences that would foster exchange and be a pillar for research and development among member states of Europe. It has since developed into an international institution for graduate and post-graduate studies, housing faculty and students from over 100 countries, fostering international, comparative, and transnational research and collaboration.
Professor Trujillo will participate in EUI research hubs on topics such as environmental and climate change governance, digital transformations and society, international economic law and sustainability, and comparative constitutional law and politics. She will also have the opportunity to participate in speaking engagements throughout Europe. Her stay begins on Feb. 1, 2025.
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