Faculty

Professor Raquel Aldana is a prolific legal scholar who joined the Pacific McGeorge faculty in 2009 after previously serving as a tenured professor at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the founder and director of the Pacific McGeorge Inter-American Program, an innovative project committed to educating bilingual and bi-cultural lawyers who wish to pursue a transnational career with a focus on U.S-Latin America relations. Professor Aldana has written extensively on immigration issues and has been actively involved in immigrant rights’ organizations. As well, she has written on victims’ rights in the context of mass atrocities and about victims of domestic violence in post-conflict societies. She began her legal career as an associate at a large law firm in Washington, D.C., later working at the Center for Justice and International Law in the nation’s capital where she litigated cases before the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. In 2006-07, Professor Aldana was a Fulbright Scholar at the Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City, Guatemala, where she taught several courses in the school’s human rights L.L.M. program and conducted research on femicide.

Professor González holds a B.A. from Yale University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She teaches at Seattle University School of Law, where her research focuses on the environmental justice implications of economic globalization. Her recent scholarship examines the impact of the global trade regime on climate change, food security, and agrobiodiversity; the developmental and environmental implications of China's growing economic influence in Latin America; and the impact of Mexico's neoliberal economic reforms on indigenous peoples. Professor Gonzalez was a Fulbright Scholar in Argentina, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, a Visiting Professor at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China, and a Fellow at the U.S. Supreme Court. She is part of a consortium of law professors that was awarded a three year grant from Higher Education for Development/U.S. Agency for International Development to conduct environmental law capacity-building workshops for law professors in Guatemala, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic.

Professor Fred Galves is one of the nation's leading scholars on matters pertaining to the use of technology in the classroom, in the courts, and by the legal profession. He has been a member of the Pacific McGeorge faculty for nearly 20 years. A recognized scholar in the fields of banking, evidence and technology, he has taught as a visiting professor at the University of California Davis School of Law, Fordham Law School, the University of Denver and Southwestern University Law School. Additionally, he has taught trial advocacy in Chile and China, private international litigation in Austria, and alternative dispute resolution in Germany. Professor Galves holds a B.A. from Colorado College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. In Summer 2012, Prof. Galves will teach Comparative Litigation in the Americas in the Inter-American Guatemala summer program.

A graduate of Stanford University and of the University of Texas School of Law, Professor José Roberto (Beto) Juárez, Jr. teaches at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, where he also serves as Director of the Lawyering in Spanish Program. His research interests include employment discrimination, language rights, legal history, race, and law and religion. He teaches courses in civil procedure, civil rights, conflict of laws, constitutional law, federal courts, professional responsibility, and remedies, and offers a seminar on language rights. Fluent in English and Spanish, he regularly teaches courses on the law of the United States at law schools in Mexico. He served as dean at the College of Law from 2006 to 2009. Professor Juárez is chair of the board of directors of the Journal of Law & Religion. He was co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), the largest membership organization of law professors in the nation from 2004-2006. He was named one of the Top 100 Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business Magazine in 2006, and was inducted into Stanford University's Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame in 2007.

Professor Luis Mogollón is a consultant with the Inter-American Program. As a Guatemalan lawyer with deep roots in the country, Luis has helped the program forge meaningful connections with many of our partners in Latin America and in the United States. In Guatemala, Luis worked for the Department of Labor as Secretary General and as a labor inspector, and he was responsible for conducting worksite investigation and representing indigent workers in their complaints against employers for violations to Guatemala's labor code.

Professor Mara Lorena Bocaletti teaches undergraduate and graduate level environmental law courses at the Universidad-Rafael Landívar, the Universidad del Valle, and the Universidad de San Carlos in Guatemala. She has served as a consultant on environmental and human rights matters to a variety of civil society and United Nations organizations, including the World Wildlife Fund, the Rigoberta Menchú Tum Foundation, the United Nations Development Program, CARE Guatemala, and the SOROS Foundation of Guatemala. Professor Bocaletti received her law degree from the Universidad Rafael Landívar in Guatemala and a Masters in Environmental Policy and Management from the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid, Spain.