Organized Crime, Migration, Investments, Trade and the Rule of Law
*Co-sponsored by the Public Law & Policy Program & Universidad Científica del Sur
July 13, 2026
17:30 – 19:30 | Reception, The Faculty Club at UC Berkeley
Day One | July 14, 2026
(The Warren Room at LAW)
9:00 – 10:00 | Registration/Continental Breakfast & Coffee
10:00 | Welcome: John C. Yoo (Berkeley Law)
10:10 | Panel One: Geopolitical Change & Latin America: Security Concerns, Minerals, AI and Power
Moderator: Prof. John C. Yoo
1. Thomas Alan Schwartz
(Distinguished Professor of History and Political Science, European Studies, Vanderbilt University)
2. Joseph Ledford
(Hoover Fellow and Assistant Director of the Hoover History Lab, Hoover Institution, Stanford University)
3. Rafael Ramirez de Alba
(Professor and Chair of Economics at IPADE Business School)
11:30 | Break: 15 minutes
11:45 | Panel Two: Strengthening the Rule of Law in the Americas
Moderator: Oscar Sumar (Universidad Científica del Sur)
1. Linda Lee Denno
(Associate Dean of the University of Arizona)
2. Wagner Menezes
(Director of International Law at U. Sao Paulo)
3. Martín A. Frúgoli
(Professor, Universidad Nacional de Rosario)
13:05 | Lunch Break (1 hour, 25 minutes)
14:30 | Panel Three: The Future and Implications of North America Trade and Investments in Latin America
Moderator: Richard Reinsch (Editor-in-Chief, Civitas Outlook, Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin)
1. Ryan Streeter
(Executive Director, Civitas Institute, University of Texas at Austin; Assistant to President Bush, White House Domestic Policy Council)
2. Oscar Sumar
(Academic Vice President at UC Sur, Peru, Visiting Scholar at Pace University, and Fellow, Public Law and Policy Program, UC Berkeley)
3. Gabriel Gasave
(Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, Director of its Center on Global Prosperity, and editor of its Spanish-language site)
16:30 | Break
18:00 | Dinner (Hong Kong East Ocean Restaurant, Emeryville)
Day Two | July 15, 2026
(The Warren Room at LAW)
9:00 – 10:00 | Registration/Continental Breakfast & Coffee
10:00 | Welcome: John C. Yoo
10:10 | Panel Four: Fighting Organized Crime
Moderator: Raul Howe
1. Filiberto Brozzetti
(Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Law, LUISS School of Law, Rome, Italy; Baker & McKenzie, Milan)
3. Rodrigo Barcia Lehann
(Professor of Law and Dean for the Doctoral Degree in Laws at Universidad Autónoma de Chile)
4. Humberto Briceño
(Professor of Constitutional Law and Political Science at the Central University of Venezuela, and Visiting Scholar at Lewis & Clark Law School)
11:30 | Break: 15 minutes
11:45 | Panel Five: AI Implications and Regulations in the Americas
Moderator: Oscar Sumar
1. Massimiliano Baroni
(Professor of Constitutional Law at University of Parma)
2. Ragi Burhum
(Amigo Cloud, San Francisco)
3. Gonzalo Ordóñez-Matamoros
(Dean of the Faculty of Finance, Government and International Relations at the Universidad Externado de Colombia)
4. Svetlana Kamyshanskaya
(Primum Law Group, San Francisco)
13:05 | Lunch Break (1 hour, 25 minutes)
15:00 | Student Presentations
