On May 23, 2013, Ana L. Velilla Arce, defended her thesis titled Derecho internacional: principios de la política exterior estadounidense, a translation from English into Spanish of International Law: United States Foreign Law, by Phillip R. Trimble.
The Thesis Committee, formed by María M. Carrión, Ph. D., Carmen Díaz Zayas M. A., and thesis advisor Alejandro Alvarez Nieves, Ph. D., , awarded her thesis the grade .