Uploaded October 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this Duke webinar, Ambassador Patrick Duddy (Director, Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Fellow, Rethinking Diplomacy Program) and the Honorable Christopher Landau, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico discussed the U.S.- Mexico relations.
Ambassador Landau was born in Madrid, Spain, and speaks fluent Spanish. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1985, where he earned a Certificate in Latin American Studies. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989, and thereafter clerked for Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. Ambassador Landau practiced law in Washington, DC, for thirty years. He has argued nine cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and has briefed and argued appeals in all of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
This event is part of a new “Conversation with the Ambassador Series” organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program. This event is co-sponsored by Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. The Rethinking Diplomacy Program is supported by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
For more on DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy program and past events: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
In this Duke webinar, Ambassador Patrick Duddy (Director, Duke University Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Fellow, Rethinking Diplomacy Program) and the Honorable Christopher Landau, U.S. Ambassador to Mexico discussed the U.S.- Mexico relations.
Ambassador Landau was born in Madrid, Spain, and speaks fluent Spanish. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in 1985, where he earned a Certificate in Latin American Studies. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1989, and thereafter clerked for Associate Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas of the United States Supreme Court. Ambassador Landau practiced law in Washington, DC, for thirty years. He has argued nine cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and has briefed and argued appeals in all of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
This event is part of a new “Conversation with the Ambassador Series” organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program. This event is co-sponsored by Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. The Rethinking Diplomacy Program is supported by a grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation Endowment Fund.
For more on DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy program and past events: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
