Mexico’s Foreign Minister Luis Ernesto Derbez congratulates Stephen T. Zamora, Leonard B. Rosenberg Law Center Professor of Law, (left) for receiving that country’s Aztec Eagle Award. Photo courtesy of the Mexican government

MEXICO HONORS UH PROF
FOR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS

Stephen T. Zamora, Leonard B. Rosenberg Law Center Professor of Law, received Mexico’s Aztec Eagle Award, the highest honor given by the Mexican government to a foreigner. Zamora was honored for devoting much of his career to advancing the teaching of law in the United States and Mexico.

He founded and directed for 12 years the UH Law Center Mexican Law Program and was instrumental in launching a scholarship program that sent about 40 Mexican lawyers to UH to take graduate courses. Zamora established the North American Consortium on Legal Education to strengthen links between American, Mexican and Canadian law schools. Additionally, more than 70 percent of his published work focus on the Mexican judicial system, its relations with the U.S. judicial system and the judicial aspects of the North American Free Trade Agreement.