Mexico has more law schools than the United States but local law professors say many lawyers and law students across the border are not taught how to litigate in a trial, leaving many not to trust the rule of law. This semester the University of San Diego started a new masters in law (LLM) program that is taught entirely in Spanish, not only to empower law students but to improve the rule of law in Mexico. For 24 years, the California Innocence Project co-founder, Justin Brooks, worked tirelessly to free 40 prisoners who were wrongfully convicted. “That was really my identity. I’d wake up every day and put on my exonerate shirt and start tweeting about wrongful convictions. And it was more than a job, it was really a mission,” said Brooks. But now you’ll see him in a new role. He’s the academic director of the University of San Diego’s new one-year master’s program in Comparative Law which studies legal systems in different jurisdictions. The class is taught virtually and exclusively in Spanish with many Latin American students.
