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INTERNATIONAL LAW HIGHLIGHTS

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First Students Enroll in New SJD Program at Miami Law

With robust offerings in international law, the launch of an S.J.D. was a natural expansion of Miami Law’s Global and International Law Program.

 

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Top 30 in International Law in Latest U. S. News Law School Rankings

With its 64-year history of engagement with international and comparative law and 20+ faculty members who teach or do scholarly research in the area, the law school came in at #29 in the specialty rankings.  

 

2022 ASIL  Midyear Meeting

Miami Law Hosts American Society of International Law Mid-Year Meeting

Miami Law was honored to be chosen to welcome the international law community to the law school November 11-12. Miami Law hosted the Society’s inaugural midyear meeting more than a decade ago and this is ASIL’s first meeting back in person after a two-year hiatus.

 

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Extensive 65+ International Law Curriculum Expands with Courses in Indigenous Rights, UN Negotiations and Intl Law and War

Depth of faculty and course variety in the area of international, foreign, and comparative law continue to draw students to Miami Law who are interested in preparing to work in a transnational global environment.

 

Collage of faculty international arbitration faculty members

The Elite in Global Arbitration Teach at Miami Law

The White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. program features an elite array of global leaders in international arbitration as professors and special guests, for the benefit of our diverse student body from around the world.

 

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International Human Rights Clinicians Conference Hosted at Miami Law

Clinical faculty from around the world attended the annual gathering of international human rights clinicians. Topics covered art and human rights, community-centric clinics, cross-country collaborations, environmental justice, Indigenous rights, and more.

 

FACULTY SCHOLARSHIP HIGHLIGHTS 

David Abraham
Law and Migration: Constants, Challenges, and Changes, in MIGRATION THEORY: TALKING ACROSS DISCIPLINES, 4th ed. 306 (Caroline B. Brettell & James F. Hollifield eds., 2023).

Group Rights and Individual Minority Rights in Immigrant Societies, Then and Now, 39 IMMIGRANTS & MINORITIES 186 (2021).

Wege aus der Krise: Herkunft und Zukunft des Sozialdemokratischen Kapitalismus, 173 WZB-MITTEILUNGEN 44 (Sept. 2021).

Book Review, 45 ETHNIC & RACIAL STUD. 1536 (2022) (reviewing JONATHAN FOX & LEV TOPOR, WHY DO PEOPLE DISCRIMINATE AGAINST JEWS? (2021)).

Paula C. Arias
Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: A Model for a New Judicial System?, 2020 REV. INTERNACIONAL JURÍDICA Y EMPRESARIAL 8 1 (2020).

Colombia, in DISCOVERY ACROSS THE GLOBE: OBTAINING EVIDENCE ABROAD TO SUPPORT U. S. PROCEEDINGS 67 (Brett Harrison, Gavin Foggo & Jorge A. Mestre eds., 2020).

Narcotraffic as Connected Political Crime in Colombia: The FARC Case, 51 U. MIA. INTER-AM. L. REV. 1 (2020) (with Andrea Mateus-Rugeles).

Caroline S. Bettinger-Lopez
The Duty to Protect Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in the Age of Covid-19 an Expanded Human Rights Framework, 29 U. MIA. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 235 (2022) (with R. Denisse Cordova Montes & Maxwell Zoberman).

A Client’s Crisis Becomes a Legal Crisis: A Domestic Violence Ruling Goes Global, in CRISIS LAWYERING: EFFECTIVE LEGAL ADVOCACY IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS 13 (Ray Br es cia & Eric K. Stearn eds., 2021).

Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Gender-Based Violence: Domestic and International Perspectives, in HANDBOOK OF POLICING, COMMUNICATION, AND SOCIETY 297 (Howard Giles, Edward R. Maguire & Shawn L. Hill eds., 2021) (with Tamar Ezer).

Caroline Bradley
Presenter - “Why (and Why Not) Climate Finance?” American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group Bien nial Conference, Texas A&M University School of Law

Tamar Ezer
International Law & COVID-19 Symposium, 29 U. MIA. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 141 (2022) (with Joseph Candelaria & Gita Howard).

Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Gender-Based Violence: Domestic and International Perspectives, in HANDBOOK OF POLICING, COMMUNICATION, AND SOCIETY 297 (Howard Giles, Edward R. Maguire & Shawn L. Hill eds., 2021) (with Caroline Bettinger-Lopez).

R. Denisse Cordova Montes
The Duty to Protect Survivors of Gender-Based Violence in the Age of Covid-19 an Expanded Human Rights Framework, 29 U. MIA. INT'L & COMP. L. REV. 235 (2022) (with Caroline Bettinger-Lopez & Maxwell Zoberman).

Sandra Friedrich
Preface: International Commercial Arbitration in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, 74 U. MIA. L. REV. 1070 (2020) (with John Rooney).

Jessica Owley
Adapting to 4 Degrees C World, 52 ENV'T L. REP. 10211 (2022) (with Karrigan Bork, et al. ).

Climate-Induced Human Displacement and Conservation Lands, 58 HOUSTON L. REV. 665 (2021).

The Paris Agreement Compliance Mechanism: Beyond COP 26, 11 WAKE FOREST L. REV. ONLINE 147 (2021) (with Imad Antoine Ibrahim & Sandrine Maljean-Dubois).

Bernard H. Oxman
Choice of Forum for Settlement of Law of the Sea Disputes, in A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS: DISPUTE RESOLUTION IN THE LAW OF INTERNATIONAL WATERCOURSES AND THE LAW OF THE SEA 83 (Helene Ruiz Fabri, et al. eds. , 2021).

Ileana Porras
Appropriating Nature: Commerce, Property and the Commodification of Nature in the Law of Nations in LOCATING NATURE: MAKING AND UNMAKING INTERNATIONAL LAW, Usha Natarajan & Julia Dehm eds., Cambridge University Press (2022) 111-134.

Alejandro Portes
Bilingualism and Achievement in the Spanish Second Generation: A Longitudinal Study, 45 ETHNIC & RACIAL STUD. 1825 (2022) (with Brandon P. Martinez).

A Permanent Periphery: Caribbean Migration Flows and the World Economy, in CARIBBEAN MIGRATIONS: THE LEGACIES OF COLONIALISM 8 (Anke Birkenmaier ed. , 2021).

Special Section: Introduction to Legacies from Sociology’s Past, 36 SOCIO. F. 509 (2021).

A Cien Años de Weber: La Ciencia como Cocación y el Resurgimiento del Nacional-Populismo, 83 REV. MEXICANA DE SOCIOLOGÍA 745 (2021).

Immigration and Robots: Is the Absence of Immigrants Linked to the Rise of Automation?, 44 ETHNIC & RACIAL STUD. 2723 (2021 ) (with Larry Liu).

Pablo Rueda-Saiz
Docket Selection and Judicial Responsiveness: The Use of AI in the Colombian Constitutional Court, 30 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 419 (2021).

Irwin P. Stotzky
JEAN V. NELSON: A CIVIL RIGHTS REVOLUTION IN IMMIGRATION (Carolina Academic Press 2021).

 
 

2022 INTERNATIONAL LAW EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

November 10-12 | ASIL Mid-Year Meeting

October 30 | Latin American Investor-State Arbitration Conference

October 29 | Fundamentals of International Legal Business Practice: IBA Young Lawyers’ Training Course Miami

October 20 | Cultural Patrimony and the Kingdom of Benin: Critical Considerations

October 7 | CIArb Americas Conference

September 14 | Octavio Carneiro: "Cross-border M&A – Practical Insights"

July 18-22 | U. S. Law in Action Program for Foreign-Trained Attorneys

April 26 | Juncadella Corporate Counsel Group: “Post Pandemic Evolution: Change Management & The Role of In-House Counsel”

April 21-22 | Gender Justice and Human Rights Symposium

April 20 | Gary B. Born: “International Arbitration: Past, Present & Future”

March 31 | Harold Koh: “Inside the Biden Administration’s Human Rights Challenge” Yale Law Professor Harold Koh Speaks at 9th Annual Louis Henkin Lecture on Human Rights

March 30 | Inter-American Law Review Lawyer of the Americas Presentation

March 2 | George A. Bermann: "International Arbitration and EU Law: Still on a Collision Course?"

 

MIAMI LAW EXPLAINER PODCAST

Miami Law Explainer Podcast

Our expert faculty gives context, relevance, and significance to the news of the day. Past podcasts focusing on international law include:

The Right to Food and Dignity
The recent White House Hunger Summit looked at reducing hunger in the U.S. Right to food expert DENISSE CORDOVA MONTES addresses best practices.

Immigration as a Political Tool
Republican governors are flooding progressive enclaves with migrants. PABLO RUEDA SAIZ examines the larger issues at play

Carbon Emissions in the Crosshairs
Climate change on the docket. Environmental law expert JESSICA OWLEY unpacks the stalls and the threats.

Sanctions Kneecap Russia
As Russia advances, the financial world is reeling and resetting. MARCIA NARINE WELDON examines the fiscal battlefield.

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MORE NEWS

Albert Van den Berg is Named Distinguished Faculty Co-Chair for Graduate Program in International Arbitration

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Professor Oxman Invited to 40th UN Convention on Law of the Sea and US State Dept Committee on International Law with Focus on Ukraine

Ukrainian Lawyer Receives Miami Law Full Scholarship - Arrives as International Arbitration Scholarship Student

Miami Law Students and Professors Attend Climate Change Conference in Egypt

Miami Law’s International Moot Team Ends Year as Best Regional Team for the Americas

Human Rights Clinic Supports Advocacy by Rural and Indigenous Women Before the UN

Professor Partners with Universities in Spain and Ecuador in International Sales Transactions Course

Miami Law’s Human Rights Clinic Partners to Publish Report on Cuba

Miami Law-Microsoft Latin America Relationship Provides International Law Career Support to Students