Rule of Law

About the Rule of Law Project

Mexico ranks poorly in global rule of law indices, scoring near the bottom on issues such as corruption, transparency, judicial system effectiveness and human and due process rights. Given the current cooperative efforts between the two countries, the Center for the United States and Mexico seeks to propose policy alternatives for a more effective justice system and improvements to the rule of law in Mexico.

The Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations: Forecast to 2040

This project will critically examine the U.S.-Mexico relationship, applying strategic foresight methods to identify the variables that will likely impact the future health of the binational relationship, project the possible outcomes of the relationship under the current political climate, and examine the broader challenges that the U.S. and Mexico will face in the coming decades.

The Rule of Law and Mexico’s Energy Reform  

This project focuses on the challenges Mexico faces in implementing energy reforms under the rule of law. It analytically and critically examines some of the key legal aspects of Mexico's new energy sector by drawing on the knowledge of scholars and experts from institutions in the U.S. and Mexico.

Publications

• Corruption and Anti-Corruption from the Left and Right in the Americas
• Mexico City’s Preventable Subway Crash
• Linking Immigration, Economic Opportunity, and the Rule of Law in Mexico and Central America
• Why Mexico is Unprepared for Covid-19
• Mexico’s New Anticorruption Struggle
• Controlling Corruption in Mexico
• Corruption and Democracy in Mexico
• On the Allocation of Public Works Contracts
• Brechas y Buenas Prácticas en el Ataque de Activos de la Delincuencia
• A Historic Chance to Fight Corruption
• Controlling Corruption in Latin America
• Anatomy of Urban Corruption: A Review of Official Corruption Complaints from a Mexican City
• Measuring Mexico's Corruption
• Mexico's Electoral Authorities
• Corruption in Mexico
• State-building, the Modernization of the Legal System, and Institutional Effectiveness in Mexico: Notes on the 2013–2014 Energy Reform
• Arbitration and Investment Protection within the Context of the Energy Reform in Mexico: A First Approach based on COMMISA v. PEMEX and KBR v. Mexico
• The New Energy System in the Mexico Constitution
• Coordination of the Regulators of the Hydrocarbon Sector: Is It Optimal for the Rule of Law?
• The New Legal and Regulatory Framework of the Mexican Electrical Sector: Possibilities of Inclusion of Small and Medium-sized Companies
• The Implementation of the Energy Reform and Socio-environmental Conflicts Regarding Hydrocarbons in Mexico
• Energy Reform and Political Representation: The Importance of Negotiation and Public Deliberation
• The Role of Local Governments in the Energy Sector and Implications of the Energy Reform for Local Governments
• The Environmental Challenges of Mexico's Energy Reform
• Mexico’s constitutional anniversary: Why this centennial benchmark is important to the U.S.
• Accountability, Transparency, and Responsibility within the Scope of the Energy Reform in Mexico
• Economic Competition and the Energy Sector: The Electricity and Natural Gas Markets
• The Rule of Law and Foreign Investment in Oil: Petroleum Nationalism in Latin America and Its Implications for Mexico
• Prologue: Energy, Mexico, and "The Mexican Way"
• Looming conflicts? Energy reform priorities and the human right of access to water in Mexico
• Security, the rule of law, and energy reform in Mexico
• Impunity in Mexico: Can the country improve its protection of journalists?
• Continental Energy Integration in North America: The Emergence of Nonconventional Fuels and the Restructuring of Integrative Trends
• Estado de Derecho y Reforma Energética en México (The rule of law and Mexico's energy reform)
• The Three U.S.-Mexico Border Wars
• The right to bear arms in Mexico: Mexican senator invokes the U.S. Second Amendment
• Globalization and Organized Crime: Challenges for International Cooperation
• Why the U.S. Needs to Help Mexico Fight Corruption
• Land Ownership and Use Under Mexico’s Energy Reform
• Tapping Mexico’s Shale Gas Resources – Future Promise and Practical Challenges

Podcast Episodes

• The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Mexico
• Inteligencia Financiera y Corrupción
• Lopez Obrador and the Fight Against Corruption
• Fighting Corruption in Mexico
• Defining and Measuring Corruption: The Case Study of Mexico
• Mexico's Corruption Problem
• The Role of Electoral Institutions
• Impunity in Mexico
• The Power Structure and the Rules of the Game

Infographics

• How do Mexicans Perceive Administration of Justice Institutions?

Video Interviews

• Controlling Corruption in Latin America

Events

• Webinar: The Pandora Papers and Mexico’s Fight Against Corruption
• Mexico's New Strategy Against Corruption: A Conversation with Santiago Nieto
• Security and Justice in Mexico: A View from the Bench
• A Worthy Mission: Controlling Corruption in Latin America
• Book Presentation: The Rule of Law and Mexico's Energy Reform (Monterrey, Mexico)
• Book Presentation: The Rule of Law and Mexico’s Energy Reform (Mexico City, Mexico)
• Impunity, Corruption and the Rule of Law in Mexico
• Mexico in 2016: What’s at Stake?
• Mexico’s Rule of Law and Mexico’s Energy Reform