Associate Professor Noah Weisbord responded to questions regarding Governor Christie (NJ). Article appeared in The Christian Science Monitor. Read it here.
Associate Professor Noah Weisbord quoted in The Christian Science Monitor
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Professor Ediberto Roman on WPBT Channel 2
Professor Ediberto Roman is the special guest on Channel 2′s Issues with Helen Ferre. Topic of discussion: Bar License for Undocumented Immigrant? Watch it here.
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Associate Professor Charles Jalloh’s book published by Cambridge University Press
Visiting As
sociate Professor Charles Chernor Jalloh has just published The Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law with Cambridge University Press. The edited book, which contains 36 chapters from leading international criminal law scholars and practitioners, is the first comprehensive evaluation of its kind. The volume received several favorable advance reviews from leaders in the field, including descriptions of the book as an “authoritative reference on the Special Court for Sierra Leone,” “an enormous contribution to international criminal law,” a “remarkable volume,” “a vade mecum for all who work for global justice,” and “a path-breaking work that sets a new benchmark for future assessments of the contributions of these courts.” Read the Foreword, Introduction, Table of Contents, and Biographies of the editor and contributing authors here.
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FIU Law welcomes new Assistant Dean & Professor of Academic Support
FIU Law is pleased to welcome Louis Schulze Jr. as the new Assistant Dean & Professor of Academic Support. Professor Schulze directs the Academic Enrichment Program and teaches Legal Reasoning, Legal Analysis, and the first semester Introduction to the Study of Law course.
Professor Schulze joined the faculty of Suffolk University Law School in 2004 and later moved to New England Law in Boston, receiving tenure in 2012. In addition to his experience designing, implementing, and consulting on academic support programs, he also has taught courses on Legal Writing and Criminal Law.
Professor Schulze is a leading scholar in the law school academic support field, and has published pieces related to FERPA, criminal law, and educational psychology in legal education. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the AALS Section on Academic Support and is a founding member and former Chair of the New England Consortium of Academic Support Professionals.
Prior to teaching, Professor Schulze began his legal career in Miami, Florida with the State Attorney’s Office, focusing on prosecuting domestic violence. He then returned to Boston to serve as a Law Clerk to the Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court and later joined the Appellate Division of the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. He was also an associate in the litigation department of Boston’s Friedman & Atherton, LLP.
Q & A with Professor Schulze:
- When did join FIU Law? January 6, 2014
- Courses you teach or area you oversee? I teach the first semester Academic Enrichment class as well as classes on Legal Reasoning and Legal Analysis. I also direct the law school’s Academic Enrichment Program.
- What makes FIU Law special? I am very proud to join the FIU Law community. I feel strongly about the role law schools should play in students’ education and on how law schools should fulfill their obligations to their students and communities. In the current era of legal education, when commentators are questioning the approach taken by many law schools, I was interested in finding a place with a strong commitment to “doing right” by its students. Everything I have learned about FIU Law convinces me that it truly is dedicated to its students in this regard.
- How your background adds to the student’s experience? I have been teaching law since 2000. I have taught in the fields of legal writing, academic enrichment, and Criminal Law. My most recent scholarship focuses on how legal education can harness aspects of educational psychology to enrich students’ learning. Most importantly, I strive to bring enthusiasm, dedication, and a genuine concern for students’ success to every class I teach.
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Professor Eric Carpenter elected to The American Law Institute
Professor Eric Carpenter has been elected to The American Law Institute (ALI). ALI is the leading independent organization in the United States that produces scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law. The Institute drafts, discusses, revises, and publishes Restatements of the Law, model statutes, and principles of law that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education. In this role, Professor Carpenter will have the opportunity to influence the development of the law in both existing and emerging areas, to work with other eminent lawyers, judges, and academics, to give back to a profession to which they are deeply dedicated, and to contribute to the public good.
“I am genuinely honored to join Professors Baker and Roman as a member of the ALI. I am particularly excited to join at a time when the ALI is revisiting the sexual assault and rape shield provisions of the Model Penal Code, and I look forward to contributing to the efforts to update those provisions.”
Professor Carpenter joined FIU Law in August 2013 and currently teaches Evidence, Military Justice and other criminal law courses. Prior to joining FIU Law, Professor Carpenter served as Professor and Chair, Criminal Law Department, at The Judge Advocate General’s School in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has also served as a Legal Aid attorney, an international law attorney, and prosecutor and defense counsel in the Army JAG Corps. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the United States Army.
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Professor Stephen Harper discusses juvenile issues on NPR
Professor Stephen Harper appeared on First Coast Connect (Jacksonville, FL) and discussed two recent US Supreme Court cases: Graham and Miller, which involve the issue of sentencing kids to life for non-homicides (ruled unconstitutional in Graham) and mandatory sentences of life without possibility of parole for kids convicted of murder (ruled unconstitutional in Miller).
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Professor Manuel Gomez to participate in Law Review Symposium at University of San Francisco
Professor Manuel Gomez will participate in a discussion about the ethical boundaries of alternative litigation funding in light of the recently released rules on crowd funding private equity, and the potential use of online tools in raising litigation funding. The panel will be part of The University of San Francisco’s Law Review 2014 Symposium: Legal Ethics in the 21st Century: Technology, Speech, and Money which will be held on Friday January 31, 2014. United State Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and lawyer and lexicologist Bryan Garner will deliver the keynote address. More information here.
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Professor M.C. Mirow to serve as FIU Fulbright Campus Representative
Professor M.C. Mirow has been selected by FIU’s Provost’s Office and the Fulbright Scholar Program to serve as one of two Fulbright Campus Representatives. He was a Fulbright Scholar to Chile in 2009 and subsequently served a three-year term on peer review panels for Mexico and the Southern Cone for the Council for International Exchange of Scholars of the Institute of International Education which administers aspects of the Fulbright Program for the United States Department of State. “I am so delighted to help represent the Fulbright Program here at FIU, ” Mirow stated. “Professors teaching through the program gain wonderful insights and new views on their teaching and scholarship; it will be fun to work with others as they apply for Fulbrights.” Mirow is a founding faculty member of FIU Law and serves as its Associate Dean of International and Graduate Studies. He is the author of Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Latin America (2004) and Florida’s First Constitution, The Constitution of Cadiz: Introduction, Translation and Text (2012).
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Professor Kerri Stone to serve as an initial Fellow of the U.S. Academy on Workplace Bullying
Professor Kerri Stone has been selected to serve as an initial Fellow of the U.S. Academy on Workplace Bullying, Mobbing, and Abuse, a joint initiative between the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) and the New Workplace Institute. Professor Stone will address workplace bullying, mobbing, and abuse in the United States.
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Professor Osei-Tutu at UC Berkeley School of Law
On January 31, 2014, Professor Osei-Tutu participated in the Junior International Law Scholars Association meeting at UC Berkeley School of Law, where she was both a commentator and a presenter.
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Professor Howard Wasserman’s recent published article
Read Professor Howard Wasserman new article Football and the Infield Fly Rule, published in UCLA L. Rev. Discourse.
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Professor Megan Fairlie at Berkeley Law
Last week, Professor Megan Fairlie presented on part of her current research agenda, the fair trial concerns raised by the use of replacement judges in international war crimes trials. The presentation was part of the Annual Meeting of the Junior International Law Scholars Association. Professor Fairlie also contributed to the event by serving as a commentator, discussing the sentencing practices of the Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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First Decanal Lecture on Legal Education: Dean Daniel Rodriguez, Northwestern Law
As part of the Faculty Workshop series, FIU Law w
elcomed Dean Daniel Rodriguez from Northwestern Law for the first-ever Decanal lecture. Watch the presentation here.
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Professor Mirow publishes review of Guzmán-Brito’s study of interpretation of statutes
Professor M.C. Mirow has just published a book review of Alejandro Guzmán-Brito’s, Codificación del derecho civil e interpretación de las leyes: las normas sobre interpretación de las leyes en los principales códigos civiles europeo-occidentales y americanos emitidos hasta fines del siglo xix in the inaugural volume of Comparative Legal History, the official journal of the European Society of Comparative Legal History. The subject of the book is the presence or absence of provisions in civil codes that dictate the way judges should interpret the codes. Guzmán-Brito wants to answer the questions of why some codes have provisions guiding judicial interpretation and others do not and of what considerations about law, more generally, in the age of codification led to particular kinds of code provisions.
Mirow’s review may be found at here.
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Professor H.T Smith to be honored by students
To commemorate Black History Month, FIU Law’s Black Law Student Lawyers Association (BLSA) wanted to do something historic that would have a lasting impact not only on the organization, but on the College of Law. So its board of directors in a unanimous decision, voted to rename itself the H.T. Smith Black Law Students Association in honor of Professor H.T. Smith and his lifelong contributions to seek fairness and justice. For BLSA President Guybert “Jimmy” Paul, renaming the organization was simple. “Professor Smith has paved the way for men like me, if he hadn’t been as brave as he was all those years ago, the world I live in today would be very different,” he said.
There is no doubt that the world H.T. Smith was born into looks very different than the world today. Some of those changes were made possible by Smith’s passion for helping to level the playing field for African American lawyers and for defeating all forms of discrimination. Born in Miami’s Overtown community, Smith grew up under the restrictions of the Jim Crow laws, but despite the segregation he experienced as a young boy, he went on to do great things. Smith graduated from Florida A & M University and then went on to serve in the Vietnam War. While overseas, he decided that he wanted to attend law school. He put his ‘passionate, principled advocacy’ to the test when he convinced the University of Miami to admit him despite not taking the LSAT. He advocated that it would be unfair to punish a man for not taking a test that was not being administered in Vietnam. After successfully earning his Juris Doctorate, Smith became a trailblazer for the African American legal community where he was the first African American assistant public defender, Miami-Dade County’s first African-American assistant county attorney and was the founding president of the Black Lawyers Association. His awards and recognitions from more than 40 years of work could fill the walls of the College of Law. His most recent accolade – the Cal Kovens Distinguished Community Service Award – occurred during FIU’s commencement exercises in December 2013, and his experiences with local, state, national and international leaders places him in an elite class. Irrespective of all of his many acknowledgments, the renaming of the BLSA is very special to him.
“I have been blessed to receive many awards, but this singular honor comes from students, and as a teacher what is better than getting recognition from those who know you?,” Smith said. “It’s very heartwarming.”
Smith has been practicing law for nearly four decades focusing on criminal defense, civil rights and personal injury cases. Ten years ago, FIU Law 2003 invited him to direct its Trial Advocacy Program which brought together his passion for legal storytelling and his natural abilities to teach and mentor into his perfect role: Professor.
“When I first started here and I would walk the halls, I would hear students call out, ‘Professor, Professor,’ I would turn around not knowing who they were calling out to and then I realized it was me and I like the sound of it!” It has been the students who have made juggling a law practice and his role with the Trial Advocacy program enjoyable and rewarding. “Teaching keeps me on the cutting edge of my profession, every day I learn from teaching and I just love the students,” Smith shared. Smith goes on to say that the support from the Dean, the faculty and the staff help make the program such a success.
As the BLSA moves into its new name, there’s no doubt that it will carry with it H.T. Smith’s fighting and compassionate spirit.
The renaming of the BLSA organization to the H.T. Smith Black Law Students Association will take place on Wednesday, February 26, 2014 at 7 p.m.at FIU College of Law RDB 11200 SW 8 Street, Miami, FL 33199.
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Professor Charles Jalloh speaks at Case Western Law School
On February 11,
2014, Visiting Associate Professor Charles C. Jalloh spoke on the topic of his recent book, Sierra Leone Special Court and Its Legacy: The Impact for Africa and International Criminal Law, at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
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Professor J. Osei-Tutu publishes in the SMU Law Review
Professor J. Janewa Osei-Tutu’s recently published article, Private Rights for the Public Good? in 66 SMU L. Rev 767 is available here.
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Professor Ediberto Roman discusses the removal of citizenship for Dominicans of Haitian descent
Professor Roman’s articles and radio interviews with leading Haitian media where he discusses the situation of the more than 250.000 Dominicans of Haitian descent who were stripped of their citizenship by the Dominican constitutional court.
Le Nouvelliste
Le Nouvelliste
Radio Vision 2000 Haiti
Haiti Press Network
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Professor Ediberto Roman in HuffPost Miami
Professor Ediberto Roman’s blog, Florida Politicians Confused About In-State Tuition available here.
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Professor Charles Jalloh at the United Nations
On February 13, 2014, Visiting Associate Professor Charles C. Jalloh gave a lecture at the United Nations entitled, Africa and the International Criminal Court. Miguel de Serpa Soares, the Under-Secretary General for Legal Affairs and Legal Counsel to the United Nations, invited him to share his noted expertise on that topic with lawyers in the UN Office of Legal Affairs in New York.
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