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SAMUEL ABRAHAM STONE CANALESSAMUEL ABRAHAM STONE CANALES
SAMUEL ABRAHAM STONE CANALES

Degrees:
Doctorado en Derecho, The George Washington University.
Licenciatura en Estudios Internacionales con Especialidad en Ciencias Políticas e Historia, Baldwin Wallace University.

Areas of interest:
• Derecho internacional público • Derecho internacional humanitario • Derechos humanos • Derecho penal internacional • Derecho y política de los Estados Unidos
Sam Stone holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree, graduating with high honors from The George Washington University Law School. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree with double majors in International Studies and Political Science, and and minor in History, graduating summa cum laude from Baldwin Wallace University. He pursued studies in human rights and international criminal law at the University of Oxford during the J.D., and spent a semester studying European politics and economics in Geneva, Switzerland during his B.A. He has been a member of the Maryland Bar since 2014.

Sam worked with three judges of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. He also worked with the global law firm Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP in Washington, D.C., and Rome, Italy. He interned with U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the National Security Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, and the Honorable Reggie B. Walton, Associate Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. He has served as a consultant for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES), and the Instituto para las Mujeres en la Migración (IMUMI), among others. His work focuses on public international law—with a particular emphasis on international humanitarian law (IHL) and international criminal law—as well as U.S.-Mexico relations. He regularly speaks on webinars, television and radio programs on these topics for various media outlets.

Additionally, Sam has had several notable engagements in the field of International Humanitarian Law. In 2023, he was appointed as a member of the jury for the 40th Edition of the Jean Pictet Competition (CPJ), held in Dürres, Albania, in February and March of that year. In 2024, he was selected as a semifinals judge for the VI Edition of the Concurso Iberoamericano de DIH, held annually in Colombia in October and organized by Universidad de La Sabana and the ICRC. That same month, he participated in a panel discussion at Universidad El Bosque in Bogotá, alongside an esteemed international panel, including Paula Gaviria, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons. Finally, he was invited by the government of Ecuador and the ICRC as an Instructor at the XVI International Humanitarian Law Course “Mariscal Antonio José de Sucre,” held in Quito in November 2024.

Since 2019, he has been a full-time professor at UDLAP, first in the Department of Law and, since 2024, in the Department of International Relations and Political Science. Additionally, he served as the Graduate Programs Coordinator in the Department of Law from 2019-2020 and again from 2023-2024. Starting in early 2025, Sam was named Academic Coordinator of Latin American Model United Nations (LAMUN) that is organized annually on campus. He led UDLAP’s moot court program in national and international competitions from 2019-2024. He organized UDLAP’s coverage of the 2020 U.S. presidential elections and is part of the team that organized coverage of the 2024 elections in Mexico, the U.S., and worldwide.

He was awarded the UDLAP Medal for Commitment to Education in 2022 (School of Social Sciences), an honor granted to only one professor per school each year.

Sam has travelled extensively on five continents and is passionate about books, maps, coin collecting, and SCUBA diving. He currently lives in San Pedro Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, with his wife, Karen; two young children, Asriel and Eitan; and their dog, Kiara.
  

 
 

Producción de investigación
Sección 
 
Año




Formación de recursos humanos, tesis dirigidas

2025
Una perspectiva queer al derecho mexicano: transgrediendo la normatividad jurídica, por José Raymundo Cervantes Mora,

2025
Food insecurity and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean: An overview of international efforts, por Valeria Saucedo Ortega,

2024
Ciberpoder: desafíos y oportunidades en los conflictos interestatales, por Kate Quechol Maciel,

2023
El delito de manipulación psicológica dentro de los espacios religiosos: una propuesta legislativa necesaria que no transgrede la libertad religiosa, por Melanie Andrea Sarabia Fornés,

2022
El Derecho al Olvido como un Derecho Humano: Análisis Comparativo entre las Jurisdicciones de Estados Unidos de América y Europa, por Yamile López Asaf,

2022
Responsabilidad Penal de la Persona Drogodependiente a la Luz de la Psicología Criminal, por Alejandra Paulina Tlapanco Beltrán,

2022
European Defense: Legal and Strategic Autonomy Foundations for a European Armed Forces, por Scott Rodrigo Venezia Trujillo,



Congresos Nacionales

2024
Ratificar sin implementar: la agenda pendiente del Derecho Internacional Humanitario en México, Tipo de participación: Ponencia Oral Nombre del congreso: XXXVII Congreso Anual de la Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Internacionales (AMEI)

2024
Las mujeres y el derecho internacional humanitario: agentes de paz y seguridad global, Tipo de participación: Ponencia Oral Nombre del congreso: XXXVII Congreso Anual de la Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Internacionales (AMEI)

2022
Los tribunales penales ad hoc y los crímenes de guerra bajo el derecho consuetudinario internacional, Tipo de participación: Ponencia Oral Nombre del congreso: Conversatorio de Derecho Internacional Humanitario y Derechos Humanos



Congresos Internacionales

2024
Los Derechos Humanos en el conflicto armado: El rol del DIH, Tipo de participación: Ponencia Oral Nombre del congreso: II Congreso Internacional de Derecho: Derechos Humanos y Justicia Social

2024
Conversatorio "Miradas Contemporáneas en el DIH y las Relaciones Internacionales sobre el Conflicto Armado Israel-Palestina", Tipo de participación: Ponencia Oral Nombre del congreso: Conversatorio "Miradas Contemporáneas en el DIH y las Relaciones Internacionales sobre el Conflicto Armado Israel-Palestina"



Artículos de investigación

2025
The Faithless: Constitutional Constraints on Electors in the United States, Nombre de la revista: La Revue des Juristes de Sciences Po,, Volumen: , Número: 27, Páginas: , DOI: , ISSN: 2111-4293

 
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