Ernesto Hernandez

Ernesto Hernández-López joined the Chapman University Fowler School of Law in 2005 and was promoted to Professor of Law with tenure in 2011.  His current research focuses on international law, post-colonialism, law and food, and immigration. This research has appeared in the American Journal of International Law, Journal of International Economic Law, UC Irvine Law Review, SMU Law Review, Journal of World Trade, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Gastronomica: Journal of Critical Food Studies and other journals. The Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera, Chicago Tribune, OC Register and La Opinión have published Professor Hernández-López's opinion pieces. His blog posts appear in Opinio Juris, Notice & Comment: Yale Journal on Regulation and Next: Third World Approaches to International Law Review. 

Professor Hernández-López has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Minority Groups and Section on Food and Agriculture. He earned his J.D. from the George Washington University School of Law in 2001. Before law school, he served as an International Relations Research Professor at the Universidad del Rosario and as a Political Science Professor at the Universidad Javeriana, both in Santafé de Bogóta, Colombia. He earned an M.A. with Academic Excellence in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University in 1996 and a B.A. with a double major in Latin American Studies (Honors) and History from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. Professor Hernández-López is a native speaker and writer of English and Spanish, fluent in Portuguese, and proficient in French.

Courses Taught:

Contracts I, Contracts II, Immigration and Refugee Law, and Advanced Topic: Food Law