Roberto Rosas

ph: (210) 431-6863
email: rrosas@stmarytx.edu

Instructor of Law
B.S., 1967, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
M.S.P., 1970, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
Degree in Law, 1993, Universidad de Guadalajara, México

Before St. Mary's

A native of Guadalajara, México, Professor Rosas was a lawyer, educator, businessman and engineer, before joining St. Mary's in 1994.

Highlights:

Member, President Vicente Fox's Advisory Council of the Institute of Mexicans Living Abroad. Elected Director of the Commission on Legal Affairs for the Advisory Council of the Institute of Mexicans Living Abroad.
Editor, San Antonio Consulate newsletter providing information to Mexican immigrants
Speaker, Symposium on "Crossing the Line: Family Law and Family Violence in the United States and Mexico," Edinburg, Texas, 2003
Graduated top of his law school class
Taught law at the Universidad de Guadalajara
Post-graduate studies at Harvard Graduate School of Business and University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in the U.S.
Post-graduate studies at Oxford Centre for Management Studies, England

Specialties:

Professor Rosas teachers courses in:

Comparative Law: México and the United States
Doing Business with México (taught in Spanish)

Publications:

Recent articles include:

"Comparative Study of the Formation of Electronic Contracts in American Law with References to International and Mexican Law", 26 Houston J. Int'l L. 640117 (2003)

"Las marcas en el Tratado de Libre Comercio de America del Norte" ("Trademarks and NAFTA"), published in the Boletin Mexicano de Derecho Comparado, a law review at one of Mexico's most prestigious centers for legal studies, the Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas of the UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico). The article is available online.

An abstract in English of the article is also available.