Gomez Romero, Luis

Overview

Luis Gómez Romero joined the School of Law at the University of Wollongong in June 2013. He has taught in the areas of jurisprudence, constitutional law, international law, legal research and human rights in several universities in Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Canada and Australia. He is also a member of the Legal Intersections Research Centre.

Luis practiced law in Mexico, where he achieved several years of experience in litigation, consultancy and legal and policy research. He was a high level policy advisor to Mexican President Vicente Fox’s transitional government.

Luis is a member of the ‘consejo asesor’ (advisory board) of Isonomía. Since November 2016, he has frequently contributed to The Conversation on topics concerning Mexico and the relationship between the United States and Latin America. At the time of writing (January 2019), his articles have been accessed by 620,000 readers and republished by 490 publishers including, for example, SBS, Newsweek, The Huffington Post, UPI, Univision, Salon or the World Economic Forum, among other international media and organizations.

Top Publications

Year	Title
2008	El Tiempo de los Débiles: Garantismo y Literatura
2014	Which way is hope? Dystopia in the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth
2011	Fantasía, Distopía y Justicia: La Saga de Harry Potter como Instrumento para la Enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos
2016	Republicanism meets (dystopian) faerie: Harry Potter and the institutional disaster
2016	The wondrous (Baroque) gender revolution, or the rise and fall of the empire of fairies
2012	Introduction - Justice framed: law in comics and graphic novels Published in Law Text Culture

Research Areas

Research Overview

Luis' key research fields are jurisprudence and political philosophy. He broadly conceives jurisprudence as a normative knowledge on how the techniques of law (justice) relate to the demands of action (prudence). His current research accordingly delves into the ways in which culture and history determine our conceptions of building community, living lawfully and pursuing justice.
Luis' main research interests are Human Rights; Political Theory; Cultural Studies; Utopianism; Law and the Humanities; Law and Popular Culture; Critical Legal Theory; Feminist Jurisprudence; Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); Latin American Legal History and Politics and European Legal History and Politics. He is particularly interested in developing and applying critical methodologies and cultural legal studies both to enhance the understanding of legal, political and social institutions in Latin America and the Mediterranean countries in Europe, and to build bridges between the legal cultures in these regions and Australia.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country
Latin America Transnational Region
Mediterranean Europe Transnational Region
Mexico Country

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border Published In The Conversation
2019	El juicio al Chapo evidencia por qué un muro no detendrá el tráfico de drogas entre México y Estados Unidos Published In The Conversation
2019	López Obrador clashes with courts after vowing ‘poverty’ for Mexican government Published In The Conversation
2019	Rius, graphic pedagogue: On Comics as an Instrument for (advanced) Education in Justice (for beginners) Published In Mitologias Hoy
2018	A record 29,000 Mexicans were murdered last year – can soldiers stop the bloodshed? Published In The Conversation
2018	Amnesty for drug traffickers? That’s one Mexican presidential candidate’s pitch to voters Published In The Conversation
2018	Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected to ‘transform’ Mexico. Can he do it? Published In The Conversation
2018	Dozens of migrants disappear in Mexico as Central American caravan pushes northward Published In The Conversation
2018	How Trump’s NAFTA renegotiations could help Mexican workers Published In The Conversation
2018	López Obrador takes power in Mexico after an unstable transition and broken campaign promises Published In The Conversation
2018	Masacres, desapariciones y 1968: los mexicanos recuerdan a las víctimas de la ‘dictadura perfecta’ Published In The Conversation
2018	Massacres, disappearances and 1968: Mexicans remember the victims of a ‘perfect dictatorship’ Published In The Conversation
2018	Mexico elects a leftist president who welcomes migrants Published In The Conversation
2018	Mexico seeks to become ‘country of refuge’ as US cracks down on migrants Published In The Conversation
2018	Mexico’s next president likely to defy Trump on immigration Published In The Conversation
2018	¿Amnistía para traficantes? Eso propone este candidato presidencial mexicano Published In The Conversation
2017	Could Trump be holding Dreamers hostage to make Mexico pay for his border wall? Published In The Conversation
2017	El Chapo, story of a kingpin — or why Trump’s plan to defeat Mexican cartels is doomed to fail Published In The Conversation
2017	Emmanuel Macron has a difficult task ahead say international experts Published In The Conversation
2017	For many Mexicans, this government spying scandal feels eerily familiar Published In The Conversation
2017	France shuns mainstream political parties: world experts react Published In The Conversation
2017	Governors gone wild: Mexico faces a “lost generation” of corrupt leaders Published In The Conversation
2017	In Mexico, gas is fueling the flames of revolt Published In The Conversation
2017	In Mexico, undocumented migrants risk deportation to aid earthquake victims Published In The Conversation
2017	Is Mexico actually the world’s second most murderous nation? Published In The Conversation
2017	Is the US really ready to end its drug war? Published In The Conversation
2017	Justice for all? Spanish lessons on corruption and ‘draining the swamp’ Published In The Conversation
2017	Mexico’s military is a lethal killing force – should it really be deployed as police? Published In The Conversation
2017	Mexico’s new plan for facing Trump: resistance Published In The Conversation
2017	NAFTA’s biggest loser: the US, after Canada and Mexico get rich trading marijuana Published In The Conversation
2017	Twin earthquakes expose Mexico’s deep inequality Published In The Conversation
2017	Twitter diplomacy: how Trump is using social media to spur a crisis with Mexico Published In The Conversation
2017	What does Donald Trump think about drugs? Published In The Conversation
2016	A decade of murder and grief: Mexico’s drug war turns ten Published In The Conversation
2016	Between love of revolution and hatred of injustice, or, the erotic jurisprudence of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Published In Law in Context
2016	How the US is outsourcing border enforcement to Mexico Published In The Conversation
2016	Just who are the millions of ‘bad hombres’ slated for US deportation? Published In The Conversation
2016	The wall and the beast: Trump’s triumph from the Mexican side of the border Published In The Conversation
2015	'El Chapo' jailbreak is both a Mexican and an American story Published In The Conversation
2015	The jurisprudence of Ratatouille: the rat in the machine, or, the equivocal taste of Égaliberté Published In International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
2014	D.H. Lawrence's plural jurisprudence: an enquiry into Desmond Manderson's post-positivist ‘law and literature’ Published In Griffith Law Review
2014	Desobediencia Civil Published In Eunomía: Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad
2014	Harry Potter contra el legalismo, o la magia republicana del pluralismo jurídico Published In Revista de Derecho del Estado
2013	Book Review: Desmond Manderson: Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. The Legacy of Modernism. Routledge, Abingdon 2012. Published In No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice
2013	De Hogwarts a Warner: La jurisprudencia visual de Harry Potter y los derechos humanos Published In Revista de Estudios Juventud
2013	Un viaje redondo a las antípodas normativas: la contextualización cultural de la modernidad jurídica en la narrativa de D.H. Lawrence Published In Eunomía: Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad
2012	Introduction - Justice framed: law in comics and graphic novels Published In Law Text Culture
2010	Countess Almaviva and the carceral redemption: introducing a musical utopia into the prison walls Published In Utopian Studies
2010	La Tempestad sobre Ultramar Published In Fronterad Revista Digital
2007	La Maravilla Ensombrecida: Notas sobre la Influencia del Cuento de Hadas en la Literatura Distópica Published In Res Publica Litterarum: studies in the classical tradition

Book

Year	Title
2011	Fantasía, Distopía y Justicia: La Saga de Harry Potter como Instrumento para la Enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos Publisher Madrid
2008	El Tiempo de los Débiles: Garantismo y Literatura Publisher Mexico

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	T-Shirt’s Guevara: The Visual Jurisprudence of the New Man Published In Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, and Critique Publisher Canada
2016	Republicanism meets (dystopian) faerie: Harry Potter and the institutional disaster Published In Cultural Legal Studies: Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
2016	The wondrous (Baroque) gender revolution, or the rise and fall of the empire of fairies Published In Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context Publisher Germany
2015	Justice as a concept Published In Law and Popular Culture in Australia Publisher Chatswood, NSW
2015	La Historia de una Constitución Marginal, o Harry Potter y Otras Jurisprudencias Menores Published In Hablar Derecho: Diálogos entre la Narrativa y el Derecho Publisher México
2014	Which way is hope? Dystopia in the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth Published In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature Publisher Waterloo
2012	Watchmen (Jack Snyder, 2009): la especulación histórica como método para el debate político Published In Filosofía del Derecho y Cine Publisher A Coruña
2011	Enderezar la utopía: La mirada de Norberto Bobbio sobre las revoluciones de 1989, veinte años después Published In Figura y Pensamiento de Norberto Bobbio Publisher Madrid
2010	¿Jueces Guerrilleros? La Interpretación Judicial Vista desde la Izquierda Published In Estudios sobre Interpretación y Argumentación Jurídicas Publisher Mexico
2009	La maravilla ensombrecida. Notas sobre la influencia del cuento de hadas en la literatura distópica Published In Las Palabras y el Poder Publisher Spain
2007	La educación jurídica como adiestramiento para la utopía Published In La enseñanza del derecho en México: diagnóstico y propuestas Publisher Mexico

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	Pencilled justice: the graphic anarchist jurisprudence of Alan Moore and Frank Miller Published In Law, Literature & the Humanities Association of Australasia: Interpellations
2012	Infinite crisis in Ozymandias' and Batman's republic: the Dystopian visions of Frank Miller and Alan Moore on social order and civil liberties Published In 13th International Conference: Utopian Studies Society, Tarragona, 4-7 July

Presentations

Invited Talk
- La Caravana, La Bestia y el Muro, o el arte como reducto de sabiduría para nombrar la justicia en tiempos de oscuridad, Keynote speaker, II Observatorio Internacional sobre Educación Jurídica: Arte y Derechos Humanos 2018

Translator Of

Gagnon, Alain G., La Era de las Incertidumbres: Ensayos sobre el Federalismo y la Diversidad Nacional, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2013, Spanish trans. of L’Âge des Incertitudes: Essais sur le Fédéralisme et la Diversité Nationale by Luis Gomez Romero Book

Potential Supervision Topics

Human Rights, Political Philosophy, Law and the Humanities, Cultural Legal Studies, Utopian Studies, Comparative Constitutional Law, Latin American Law, Legal History

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Strategic Advocacy Based upon the Elicited Skill-Sets of Leading Advocates	Francis, Keith

Professional Service Activities

Academic Senate Member 2015 -
Isonomía Member of the Advisory Board 2009 -

Outreach And Community Service Activities

National Tertiary Education Union UOW Branch Secretary 2016 -

Full Name

Luis Gómez Romero

Mailing Address

Northfields Ave

Room 67.237

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Geographic Location

Building 67, Room 237

Top Publications

Year	Title
2008	El Tiempo de los Débiles: Garantismo y Literatura
2014	Which way is hope? Dystopia in the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth
2011	Fantasía, Distopía y Justicia: La Saga de Harry Potter como Instrumento para la Enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos
2016	Republicanism meets (dystopian) faerie: Harry Potter and the institutional disaster
2016	The wondrous (Baroque) gender revolution, or the rise and fall of the empire of fairies
2012	Introduction - Justice framed: law in comics and graphic novels Published in Law Text Culture

Research Areas

Research Overview

Luis' key research fields are jurisprudence and political philosophy. He broadly conceives jurisprudence as a normative knowledge on how the techniques of law (justice) relate to the demands of action (prudence). His current research accordingly delves into the ways in which culture and history determine our conceptions of building community, living lawfully and pursuing justice.
Luis' main research interests are Human Rights; Political Theory; Cultural Studies; Utopianism; Law and the Humanities; Law and Popular Culture; Critical Legal Theory; Feminist Jurisprudence; Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL); Latin American Legal History and Politics and European Legal History and Politics. He is particularly interested in developing and applying critical methodologies and cultural legal studies both to enhance the understanding of legal, political and social institutions in Latin America and the Mediterranean countries in Europe, and to build bridges between the legal cultures in these regions and Australia.

Geographic Focus

Australia Country
Latin America Transnational Region
Mediterranean Europe Transnational Region
Mexico Country

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Year	Title
2019	El Chapo trial shows why a wall won’t stop drugs from crossing the US-Mexico border Published In The Conversation
2019	El juicio al Chapo evidencia por qué un muro no detendrá el tráfico de drogas entre México y Estados Unidos Published In The Conversation
2019	López Obrador clashes with courts after vowing ‘poverty’ for Mexican government Published In The Conversation
2019	Rius, graphic pedagogue: On Comics as an Instrument for (advanced) Education in Justice (for beginners) Published In Mitologias Hoy
2018	A record 29,000 Mexicans were murdered last year – can soldiers stop the bloodshed? Published In The Conversation
2018	Amnesty for drug traffickers? That’s one Mexican presidential candidate’s pitch to voters Published In The Conversation
2018	Andrés Manuel López Obrador was elected to ‘transform’ Mexico. Can he do it? Published In The Conversation
2018	Dozens of migrants disappear in Mexico as Central American caravan pushes northward Published In The Conversation
2018	How Trump’s NAFTA renegotiations could help Mexican workers Published In The Conversation
2018	López Obrador takes power in Mexico after an unstable transition and broken campaign promises Published In The Conversation
2018	Masacres, desapariciones y 1968: los mexicanos recuerdan a las víctimas de la ‘dictadura perfecta’ Published In The Conversation
2018	Massacres, disappearances and 1968: Mexicans remember the victims of a ‘perfect dictatorship’ Published In The Conversation
2018	Mexico elects a leftist president who welcomes migrants Published In The Conversation
2018	Mexico seeks to become ‘country of refuge’ as US cracks down on migrants Published In The Conversation
2018	Mexico’s next president likely to defy Trump on immigration Published In The Conversation
2018	¿Amnistía para traficantes? Eso propone este candidato presidencial mexicano Published In The Conversation
2017	Could Trump be holding Dreamers hostage to make Mexico pay for his border wall? Published In The Conversation
2017	El Chapo, story of a kingpin — or why Trump’s plan to defeat Mexican cartels is doomed to fail Published In The Conversation
2017	Emmanuel Macron has a difficult task ahead say international experts Published In The Conversation
2017	For many Mexicans, this government spying scandal feels eerily familiar Published In The Conversation
2017	France shuns mainstream political parties: world experts react Published In The Conversation
2017	Governors gone wild: Mexico faces a “lost generation” of corrupt leaders Published In The Conversation
2017	In Mexico, gas is fueling the flames of revolt Published In The Conversation
2017	In Mexico, undocumented migrants risk deportation to aid earthquake victims Published In The Conversation
2017	Is Mexico actually the world’s second most murderous nation? Published In The Conversation
2017	Is the US really ready to end its drug war? Published In The Conversation
2017	Justice for all? Spanish lessons on corruption and ‘draining the swamp’ Published In The Conversation
2017	Mexico’s military is a lethal killing force – should it really be deployed as police? Published In The Conversation
2017	Mexico’s new plan for facing Trump: resistance Published In The Conversation
2017	NAFTA’s biggest loser: the US, after Canada and Mexico get rich trading marijuana Published In The Conversation
2017	Twin earthquakes expose Mexico’s deep inequality Published In The Conversation
2017	Twitter diplomacy: how Trump is using social media to spur a crisis with Mexico Published In The Conversation
2017	What does Donald Trump think about drugs? Published In The Conversation
2016	A decade of murder and grief: Mexico’s drug war turns ten Published In The Conversation
2016	Between love of revolution and hatred of injustice, or, the erotic jurisprudence of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara Published In Law in Context
2016	How the US is outsourcing border enforcement to Mexico Published In The Conversation
2016	Just who are the millions of ‘bad hombres’ slated for US deportation? Published In The Conversation
2016	The wall and the beast: Trump’s triumph from the Mexican side of the border Published In The Conversation
2015	'El Chapo' jailbreak is both a Mexican and an American story Published In The Conversation
2015	The jurisprudence of Ratatouille: the rat in the machine, or, the equivocal taste of Égaliberté Published In International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
2014	D.H. Lawrence's plural jurisprudence: an enquiry into Desmond Manderson's post-positivist ‘law and literature’ Published In Griffith Law Review
2014	Desobediencia Civil Published In Eunomía: Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad
2014	Harry Potter contra el legalismo, o la magia republicana del pluralismo jurídico Published In Revista de Derecho del Estado
2013	Book Review: Desmond Manderson: Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law. The Legacy of Modernism. Routledge, Abingdon 2012. Published In No Foundations: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Law and Justice
2013	De Hogwarts a Warner: La jurisprudencia visual de Harry Potter y los derechos humanos Published In Revista de Estudios Juventud
2013	Un viaje redondo a las antípodas normativas: la contextualización cultural de la modernidad jurídica en la narrativa de D.H. Lawrence Published In Eunomía: Revista en Cultura de la Legalidad
2012	Introduction - Justice framed: law in comics and graphic novels Published In Law Text Culture
2010	Countess Almaviva and the carceral redemption: introducing a musical utopia into the prison walls Published In Utopian Studies
2010	La Tempestad sobre Ultramar Published In Fronterad Revista Digital
2007	La Maravilla Ensombrecida: Notas sobre la Influencia del Cuento de Hadas en la Literatura Distópica Published In Res Publica Litterarum: studies in the classical tradition

Book

Year	Title
2011	Fantasía, Distopía y Justicia: La Saga de Harry Potter como Instrumento para la Enseñanza de los Derechos Humanos Publisher Madrid
2008	El Tiempo de los Débiles: Garantismo y Literatura Publisher Mexico

Chapter

Year	Title
2018	T-Shirt’s Guevara: The Visual Jurisprudence of the New Man Published In Law and the Visual: Representations, Technologies, and Critique Publisher Canada
2016	Republicanism meets (dystopian) faerie: Harry Potter and the institutional disaster Published In Cultural Legal Studies: Law's Popular Cultures and the Metamorphosis of Law Publisher Abingdon, Oxon
2016	The wondrous (Baroque) gender revolution, or the rise and fall of the empire of fairies Published In Fables of the Law: Fairy Tales in a Legal Context Publisher Germany
2015	Justice as a concept Published In Law and Popular Culture in Australia Publisher Chatswood, NSW
2015	La Historia de una Constitución Marginal, o Harry Potter y Otras Jurisprudencias Menores Published In Hablar Derecho: Diálogos entre la Narrativa y el Derecho Publisher México
2014	Which way is hope? Dystopia in the (Mexican) Borgian Labyrinth Published In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase: Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature Publisher Waterloo
2012	Watchmen (Jack Snyder, 2009): la especulación histórica como método para el debate político Published In Filosofía del Derecho y Cine Publisher A Coruña
2011	Enderezar la utopía: La mirada de Norberto Bobbio sobre las revoluciones de 1989, veinte años después Published In Figura y Pensamiento de Norberto Bobbio Publisher Madrid
2010	¿Jueces Guerrilleros? La Interpretación Judicial Vista desde la Izquierda Published In Estudios sobre Interpretación y Argumentación Jurídicas Publisher Mexico
2009	La maravilla ensombrecida. Notas sobre la influencia del cuento de hadas en la literatura distópica Published In Las Palabras y el Poder Publisher Spain
2007	La educación jurídica como adiestramiento para la utopía Published In La enseñanza del derecho en México: diagnóstico y propuestas Publisher Mexico

Conference Paper

Year	Title
2013	Pencilled justice: the graphic anarchist jurisprudence of Alan Moore and Frank Miller Published In Law, Literature & the Humanities Association of Australasia: Interpellations
2012	Infinite crisis in Ozymandias' and Batman's republic: the Dystopian visions of Frank Miller and Alan Moore on social order and civil liberties Published In 13th International Conference: Utopian Studies Society, Tarragona, 4-7 July

Presentations

Invited Talk
- La Caravana, La Bestia y el Muro, o el arte como reducto de sabiduría para nombrar la justicia en tiempos de oscuridad, Keynote speaker, II Observatorio Internacional sobre Educación Jurídica: Arte y Derechos Humanos 2018

Translator Of

Gagnon, Alain G., La Era de las Incertidumbres: Ensayos sobre el Federalismo y la Diversidad Nacional, Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch, 2013, Spanish trans. of L’Âge des Incertitudes: Essais sur le Fédéralisme et la Diversité Nationale by Luis Gomez Romero Book

Potential Supervision Topics

Human Rights, Political Philosophy, Law and the Humanities, Cultural Legal Studies, Utopian Studies, Comparative Constitutional Law, Latin American Law, Legal History

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Degree	Research Title	Advisee
Doctor of Philosophy	Strategic Advocacy Based upon the Elicited Skill-Sets of Leading Advocates	Francis, Keith

Professional Service Activities

Academic Senate Member 2015 -
Isonomía Member of the Advisory Board 2009 -

Outreach And Community Service Activities

National Tertiary Education Union UOW Branch Secretary 2016 -

Full Name

Luis Gómez Romero

Mailing Address

Northfields Ave

Room 67.237

Wollongong

NSW

2522

Australia

Geographic Location

Building 67, Room 237

Overview

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Presentations

Invited Talk

Translator Of

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Overview

Top Publications

Research Areas

Research Overview

Geographic Focus

Publications

Selected Publications

Journal Article

Book

Chapter

Conference Paper

Presentations

Invited Talk

Translator Of

Supervision

Potential Supervision Topics

Advisees

Graduate Advising Relationship

Service

Professional Service Activities

Outreach And Community Service Activities

Contact

Full Name

Mailing Address

Geographic Location

Visualisations

Research Areas

Geographic Focus