FIU Law hosts visiting legal scholars from institutions worldwide to provide insight and encourage discussion on myriad legal topics. The purpose of the Faculty Workshops series is to encourage interactive discussion between FIU Law faculty on current legal issues, and provide an open forum through which such discussion can take place. Each workshop features a different legal subject, and is lead by a scholar in that field.
The FIU Faculty Workshop Series started archiving presentations from visiting legal scholars in October 2015. When possible, the workshops were recorded and are provided here. When available, the working drafts of works in progress discussed at the time of the Workshop were also obtained and archived. For access to those hidden works, please contact the eCollections administrator.
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FIU Law and University of Miami School of Law Co-Hosted the third Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag
8-13-2020
Eric Carpenter and Patrick O. GudridgeFIU College of Law and University of Miami School of Law co-hosted the last Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag.
Eric R. Carpenter (FIU College of Law) presented The Effect of Changing the Military’s Rape Law on Law Enforcement Case Processing.
Patrick O. Gudridge (UM School of Law) presented The Duty to Protect Reconstructed—Interior Constitutions and Constitutional Crimes.
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FIU Law and University of Miami School of Law Co-Hosted Second Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag
7-15-2020
Jose Gabilondo and Elizabeth M. IglesiasFIU College of Law and University of Miami School of Law co-hosted the Second Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag.
Jose Gabilondo (FIU College of Law) presented Making Market Structure: A Post-Crisis View of Financial Intermediaries, presenting some draft chapters for a banking monograph, which one of the main goals is to offer a working (though somewhat tentative) model of how financial institutions, mechanisms, and flows of funds perform intermediation.
Elizabeth M. Iglesias (UM School of Law) presented her work Against Fascism: Toward a Latcritical Legal Genealogy, this article takes up the invitation of the LatCrit 2019 Biennial Conference organizers to resist the fascist turn in American politics.
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FIU Law and University of Miami School of Law Co-Hosted First Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag
6-17-2020
Scott F. Norberg and Caroline Mala CorbinFIU College of Law and University of Miami School of Law co-hosted the First Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag.
Scott Norberg (FIU College of Law) presented An Empirical Study of Law Graduate Debt at U.S. Law Schools, this study seeks to contribute to the work of addressing the challenges by closely examining the nature and scope of law graduate debt across U.S. law schools.
Caroline Mala Corbin (UM School of Law) presented her work Compelled Speech and the Pledge of Allegiance Revisited: The Unconstitutionality of Requiring Parental Permission, this work examines the compulsory flag salutes and parental rights.
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Cannabis Impaired Driving: The Importance of tolerance and the Challenges of Roadside Testing
3-11-2020
Dr. Ashley Brooks-RussellProfessor Ashley Brooks-Russell, of Colorado School of Public Health - Community and Behavioral Health, University of Colorado Denver, presented her work Cannabis Impaired Driving: The Importance of tolerance and the Challenges of Roadside Testing. This work examines how the driving, of cannabis users, is affected.
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An Empirical Assessment of Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling
3-4-2020
Stephen RushinProfessor Stephen Rushin, of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, presented his work An Empirical Assessment of Pretextual Stops and Racial Profiling. This work empirically illustrates that legal doctrines permitting police officers to engage in pretextual traffic stops may contribute to a statistically significant increase in racial profiling.
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Title IX and Menstruation
2-18-2020
Bridget J. CrawfordProfessor Bridget J. Crawford, of Pace University School of Law, presented a working draft of her work Title IX and Menstruation. This work examines the origins of the contemporary “menstrual equity” movement and explains why menstruation is a foundational justice issue.
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State-Based and Date-Driven: Foreign Enterprises, Social Credit, and Next Generation Law Along Chinese Silk Roads
1-29-2020
Larry Catá BackerProfessor Larry Catá Backer, of the Penn State Law, presented his work in progress State-Based and Date-Driven: Foreign Enterprises, Social Credit, and Next Generation Law Along Chinese Silk Roads. This work examines the character and impact of social credit systems and data driven governance.
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Taxing Guns
10-22-2019
Dean Nancy C. StaudtDean Nancy Staudt, of the of the Washington University-St. Louis School of Law, presented her work in progress Taxing Guns. This work examines the problems of tax evasion and illegal markets and argues that Pigouvian taxation is still the best model for implementing our nation’s policy aims and goals.
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Fifth Decanal Lecture: Five Years After Ferguson: Lessons Learned and Mistakes Made
10-21-2019
Dean Nancy C. StaudtDean Nancy Staudt, of the Washington University-St. Louis School of Law, presented the Fifth Decanal Lecture: Five Years After Ferguson: Lessons Learned and Mistakes Made. This work examines how, located just 12 miles from Ferguson, Missouri, Washington University has learned many important lessons over the last 5 years. With social change, social justice, and community partnerships now playing an important role in the revised academic mission, many are calling the institution: Washington University FOR St. Louis rather than, simply, Washington University IN St. Louis.
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God Returns to Cuba: Straight Supremacy, Catholic Statecraft, and the 2019 Constitution
8-27-2019
Jose GabilondoProfessor Gabilondo, of the FIU College of Law, presented his work in progress God Returns to Cuba: Straight Supremacy, Catholic Statecraft, and the 2019 Constitution. This work examines how religious operatives blocked Cuba’s Constitutional provision for same-sex marriage.
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Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination
4-24-2019
Tanya K. HernándezProfessor Tanya K. Hernández, of Fordham University School of Law, presented a working draft of her work Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination. This work examines what it means for civil rights law when and how mixed-race persons experience racial discrimination.
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Is (or should) Better Be Good Enough? Legal Reviews of Learning or Adaptive Weapons Systems
4-16-2019
Chris JenksProfessor Chris Jenks, of SMU Dedman School of Law, presented a working draft of his work Is (or should) Better Be Good Enough? Legal Reviews of Learning or Adaptive Weapons Systems. This work considers the weapons legal review process as applied to learning systems.
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The Free Speech Right Against Government Propaganda
4-3-2019
Caroline M. CorbinProfessor Caroline M. Corbin, of University of Miami School of Law, presented a working draft of her work The Free Speech Right Against Government Propaganda. This work advocates dropping the rule that the Free Speech Clause never applies to government speech.
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Pardoning Dogs
3-26-2019
Sarah SchindlerProfessor Sarah Schindler, now associated with the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, presented Pardoning Dogs. This work analyze the limits of the pardon power, and specifically the power of the chief executive to pardon a dog.
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Limitations on Legal Representation in Immigration Benefits Adjudications
3-20-2019
Beth K. ZilbermanProfessor Beth K. Zilberman, now associated with The Willamette University College of Law, presented Limitations on Legal Representation in Immigration Benefits Adjudications. This work analyze the lawyer’s role in immigration benefits adjudications at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) field offices.
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Contracting for Fourth Amendment Privacy Online
3-6-2019
Wayne A. A. LoganProfessor Wayne A. Logan, of Florida State University College of Law, presented Contracting for Fourth Amendment Privacy Online.
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Nakedness and Privacy
3-5-2019
Adam CandeubProfessor Adam Candeub, of Michigan State University College of Law, presented a working draft of his work Nakedness and Privacy. This work examines that publicity rights offer an efficient, private remedy for “revenge porn” as well as naked photographs from the locker room or hospital, placed without subjects’ permission on the web.
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A Copyright Office Update: Discussion of the Seventh Triennial Section 1201 Rulemaking and Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp v. Wall-Street.com
2-27-2019
Anna ChauvetWork presented: A Copyright Office Update: Discussion of the Seventh Triennial Section 1201 Rulemaking and Fourth Estate Public Benefit Corp v. Wall-Street.com
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Unlearning How to Think Like a Lawyer
2-19-2019
Jeffrey LipshawProfessor Jeffrey Lipshaw , of Suffolk University Boston, Suffolk Law School, presented Unlearning How to Think Like a Lawyer. The talk was based on his book exploring how traditional thinking like a lawyer can be problematic in non-litigation contexts.
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A Hardy Case Makes Bad Law
2-13-2019
Victoria SahaniProfessor Victoria Sahani, now associated with the Boston University of Law, presented a working draft of her work A Hardy Case Makes Bad Law. This work examines how investment arbitration awards are enforced under U.S. domestic law.
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Pharmaceutical Product Liability in a Comparative View
2-5-2019
Dr. iur. Erdem BüyüksagisProfessor Erdem Büyüksagis, now associated with University of Fribourg, presented a working draft of his work Pharmaceutical Product Liability in a Comparative View. This work examines two recent products liability cases in Europe.
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Nunca Mas Meets #NiUnaMenos— The Prosecution of Dictatorship-era Sexual Violence in Chile
11-13-2018
Caroline DavidsonProfessor Caroline Davidson, of Willamette College of Law, presented a working draft of her work Nunca Mas Meets #NiUnaMenos— The Prosecution of Dictatorship-era Sexual Violence in Chile. This work seeks to explore reasons for delay in justice for sexual violence in Chile and what international criminal justice can learn from the Chilean example. If accountability for sexual and gender violence is a priority, and the ICC regime is premised on decentralized enforcement by national judicial systems, then a greater attention to obstacles to domestic justice for sexual and gender violence and ways of encouraging domestic prosecution is needed.
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The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA
10-30-2018
Dmitry KarshtedtProfessor Dmitry Karshtedt , of George Washington University Law School, presented a working draft of her work The More Things Change: Improvement Patents, Drug Modifications, and the FDA. In this Article, he explains that the rules and institutions involved in determining the validity of patents on chemical inventions, certain features of drug regulation under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, and unique market forces in the pharmaceutical sector combine to allow strategic product hopping.
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In Defense of Nationwide Injunctions
10-16-2018
Amanda FrostProfessor Amanda Frost, now associated with University of Virginia School of Law, presented a working draft of her work In Defense of Nationwide Injunctions. This work provides the first sustained academic defense of nationwide injunctions. In some cases, nationwide injunctions are the only means to provide plaintiffs with complete relief, or to prevent harm to thousands of individuals who cannot quickly bring their own cases before the courts.
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Bones of Contention: Skeletal Maturity and Criminal Responsibility in the British Empire
3-26-2018
Binyamin BlumProfessor Binyamin Blum , of UC Hastings College of the Law San Francisco, presented a working draft of his work Bones of Contention: Skeletal Maturity and Criminal Responsibility in the British Empire. This work examines the genealogy of establishing chronological age through skeletal maturity.
