Professor Ediberto Roman’s recent Huffington Post blog, The Largely Ignored Human Rights Tragedy at Our Doorstep, co-written by second year law student Frandley Julien.
The Largely Ignored Human Rights Tragedy at Our Doorstep blog entry by Professor Roman
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Professor Manuel Gomez to participate in a Works-in-Progress Roundtable for Third-Party Funding Scholars
Professor Manuel Gomez will present his paper “Alternative Litigation Financing Heads South: The Potential for and obstacles to third party funding in Latin America” during a roundtable on Third Party Funding which is being held at Washington and Lee University.
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Fellow Ryan Stoa presented at the Conference of Water and Ocean Law in Times of Climate Change at Utrecht University
Ryan Stoa, Fellow in Water Law and Policy at the College of Law and Deputy Director of the Global Water for Sustainability Program, spoke of the need for a cautious approach to decentralized water governance at the Conference on Water and Ocean Law in Times of Climate Change, hosted by Utrecht University’s Centre for Water, Oceans, and Sustainability Law. ”While transferring authority over water management decisions to local institutions has many benefits, the process requires a robust statutory framework and local capacity to manage water resources. Many developing countries, in particular, have embraced decentralized water governance before ensuring that underlying conditions necessary for successful implementation are in place.” Stoa’s talk summarized his article on the topic, entitled Subsidiarity in Principle: Decentralization of Water Resources Management Across the Economic Development Continuum, which will be published in a special issue of the Utrecht Law Review.
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Professor Ediberto Roman presenting at USF’s Latino Communities in Old and New Destitations
Professor Ediberto Roman will deliver the keynote address at the University of South Florida’s Latino Communities in Old and New Destinations: Mulit-disciplinary Approaches to Assessing the Impact of Legal Reforms. The conference will address a range of social policies at federal, state, and local levels and how various segments of the Latino population have fared in light of these policies.
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Professor Charles Jalloh on Voice of America
On November 13, 2013, Professor Charles C. Jalloh was the academic commentator on Voice of America’s popular “Straight Talk Africa” television and radio program. He discussed the law and politics of international criminal justice, especially the tensions between the International Criminal Court and African States, on which he is a leading publicist. Watch or listen here.
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Professor Carpenter’s current research project discussed in Just Security blog
Professor Carpenter’s current re
search project was discussed in a post on the Just Security blog. The Professor’s research project involves identifying gender role expectations in law enforcement and the military and then exploring how those belief systems impact rape case processing.
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Professor Elizabeth Price Foley on The Kelly File
Professor Elizabeth Price Foley appeared on the Fox News primetime show The Kelly File with Megyn Kelly. The topic of discussion was how the Senate’s decision to use the “nuclear option”– allowing presidential nominees to pass with 51 votes rather than 60– might affect the Independent Payment Review Board (IPAB) of the Affordable Care Act.
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Professor Noah Weisbord attended the 12th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Professor Noah Weisbord attended the 12th Session of the Assembly of States Parties to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. While there, he met with diplomats representing their states to discuss the ratification and implementation of the newly defined crime of aggression. Weisbord, a member of the Council of Advisors to the Global Institute on the Prevention of Aggression, also met with the other members of the Council to discuss the way forward.
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Professor Charles Jalloh speaks at the International Criminal Court in The Hague
Professor Charles Jalloh speaks at the International Criminal Court in The Hague
FIU Law Visiting Associate Professor Charles C. Jalloh was one of only two academic scholars who were invited to speak during the first-ever interactive panel among the 122 member states in the 11-year history of the permanent International Criminal Court (ICC). The historic special segment, which lasted five and half hours with approximately 36 countries participating, was requested by the African Union and entitled “Indictment of Sitting Heads of State and Government and its Consequences on Peace and Stability and Reconciliation.” Professor Jalloh was nominated by the group of African States as a “recognized expert on the relationship between Africa and the ICC.” Other panelists were Ambassador Rolf Einar Fife (Norway); Ms. Djeneba Diarra, African Union Commission Acting Legal Counsel; Honorable Mr. Githu Muigai, Attorney General of Kenya; and Professor Cherif Bassiouni, chairman of the Drafting Committee of the 1998 Rome UN Diplomatic Conference which established the ICC. The moderator was the first President of the Assembly, H.R.H. Prince Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein of Jordan, who is also that country’s Ambassador to the United Nations. Read the press release, the official summary about the meeting and news reports here, here, and here.
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Dean Mason helps launch Fostering Panther Pride program
Read full story here.
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Professor OseiTutu at Florida State University
Professor OseiTutu - one of a select group of intellectual property law academics – has been invited to present her scholarship at Florida State University College of Law. This faculty workshop draws young academics from across the United States, and will take place on Friday, December 6, 2013.
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H.T. Smith comments on Nelson Mandela
Recent comments by H.T. Smith on Nelson Mandela: The Miami Herald and WLRN.
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AALS Presidential Workshop on Tomorrow’s Law Schools: Economics, Governance and Justice
Professor Manuel A. Gómez will be a panelist at the Association of American Law Schools 2014 Annual Meeting which is being held January 2-5, 2014 in New York. He will be discussing the topic: Comparative Models for Legal Education: Lessons from Abroad.
For more information or to register click here.
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Professor Fingerhut comments on MLB player Alex Rodriguez’ steriod scandal case
Professor H. Scott Fingerhut who represents Porter Fischer, the whistleblower in Alex Rodriguez’ steriod case, comments to the New York Newsday.
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Professor H.T. Smith honored with the Cal Kovens Distinguished Community Service Award
During FIU’s December 16th commencement exercises, Professor H.T. Smith was awarded the Cal Kovens Distinguised Community Service Award.
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Professor Charles C. Jalloh at the African Union in Ethiopia
On December 16 and 17, Visiting Professor Charles C. Jalloh participated, as one of only two invited academics, in a closed brainstorming session convened for African States by the African Union (Office of Legal Counsel) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme was the impact of the international criminal justice system on peace, justice and reconciliation in Africa and ways of strengthening African mechanisms to address issues of accountability for international crimes on the continent.
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Prof Megan Fairlie discusses the use of replacement judges in international criminal trials
Guest Post: W(h)ither now the reputation of the ICTY?
by Megan Fairlie
A brief consideration of the history of replacement judges at the ICTY reveals an increasing disregard for the rights of the accused in favor of avoiding costly and time-consuming re-hearings. Initially, part-heard cases could not continue with a replacement judge without the accused’s consent. Then, as “consent was only a safeguard,” the rules were amended to permit the two remaining judges to independently decide when continuing a part-heard case “would serve the interests of justice.”
Read the full article in Opinio Juris here.
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Professor Howard M. Wasserman on HuffPost Live
Professor Howard M. Wasserman appeared on the January 6, 2014 edition of HuffPost Live where he discussed the Supreme Court’s stay of injunuction in the Utah marraige equality case. One of Professor Wasserman’s specialities is civil rights. View his appearance here.
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Ryan Stoa interview discusses legal implications of dolphin deaths linked to BP Oil Spill
Ryan Stoa, Fellow in Water Law, discusses legal implications of dolphin deaths linked to BP Oil Spill in a recent Law360 article. Below is an abstract of the article:
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A recent government study linking dolphin injuries to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill provides unprecedented evidence for federal officials looking to target BP PLC for harm to the Gulf of Mexico’s aquatic life and could cost the oil giant tens of millions of dollars in new penalties. A team of researchers led by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists concluded last month that disease conditions for bottlenose dolphins exposed to the spill were “significantly greater in prevalence and severity” than those for dolphins in another part.
The dolphin harm opens the door for the federal government to aggressively pursue BP under the Marine Mammal Protection Act, which forbids companies like BP from adversely impacting the life of a dolphin in any way. This broad prohibition should embolden the government to pursue the oil giant, according to Ryan Stoa, a fellow in water law and policy at Florida International University’s College of Law. “This new report could have pretty significant implications,” Stoa said. “The government could have what it feels is a strong claim under the MMPA.”
BP emphasizes that NOAA has found so-called unusual deaths among bottlenose dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico starting two months before the spill. “It seems fairly clear from the study that those symptoms are taking place because of exposure to petroleum, but proving causation could be a tricky task for the government given observed population declines that preceded the spill,” Stoa said.
Still, coastal communities that opted out of a class action settlement with BP may have a stronger claim with the new evidence. “These dolphins are charismatic megafauna, so to speak, and are valuable for tourism in Gulf Coast communities, who could claim that significant impairment of the dolphin population could lead to economic losses,” Stoa said.
The full article is available here.
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Associate Professor Kerri Stone elected to AALS Section on Women in Legal Education
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