This series collects the current and past scholarship of FIU College of Law faculty.
Submissions from 2026
Materiality Beyond Metrics: Corporations, Climate Litigation, and Accountability for Distributed Harm, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
REPRODUCTIVE CRIMES, DIGITAL EVIDENCE, AND THE LIMITS OF PRIVACY LAW, Cyra Akila Choudhury
Comparative Judicial Enforcement, Angela Hefti
Mindfulness in Legal Education Chapter 8: Teaching Mindfulness in the Classroom, Rosario Lozada
Ending Birthright Citizenship: The Misreading of "Subject to the Jurisdiction Thereof", Ediberto Román
Race and Empire : The United States Over Puerto Rico, Ediberto Román
CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION AFTER TRUMP V. CASA, Howard Wasserman
Submissions from 2025
The ESG Paradox: Systemic Resistance and the Crisis of Corporate Governance, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
AI & ESG, Barbara Ballan
Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) Chapter 43: The family, Cyra A. Choudhury
Law and Political Economy in Italy, Jorge L. Esquirol
Private campus police and the Fourteenth Amendment, Vanessa Miller
Race Centers as Critical Curriculum Spaces in U.S. Law Schools, Vanessa Miller
Students Under Surveillance: Big Data Policing and Privacy Rights, Vanessa Miller
The Role of State Laws in the Privatization of Police on Campus, Vanessa Miller
REVISITING CATALYZING FANS: HOW DAN MARKEL PREDICTED THE FUTURE OF COLLEGE ATHLETICS, Howard Wasserman
Submissions from 2024
Biodiversity Laws, Policies and Science in Europe, the United States and China, Alex Erwin
Dobbs and the future of Substantive Liberty, Elizabeth Price Foley
A National Survey and Critical Analysis of University Police Statutes, Vanessa Miller
Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene, Amber Polk
Toxic Battery: Pollution as a Dignitary Tort, Amber Polk
A Puerto Rico for Whom? Race, Neglect, and Empire, Ediberto Román
Puerto Rico Is Not a Joke, Ediberto Román
Democracy Will Not Be on the 2024 Ballot in the US Territories, Ediberto Román and Cori Alonso-Yoder
Moving Slow and Fixing Things, Hannibal Travis
303 CREATIVE, EXCLUSIVE PRIVATE ENFORCEMENT, AND BLUE-STATE REVENGE, Howard Wasserman
Submissions from 2023
Health Inequities Among People Who Use Drugs in a Post-Dobbs America: The Case for a Syndemic Analysis, Jennifer Carroll; Bayla Istrach; and Taleed El-Sabawi, et al.
Drug-Induced Homicide Laws and False Beliefs About Drug Distributors: Three Myths that are Leaving Prosecutors Misinformed, Taleed El-Sabawi, Jennifer Carroll, and Morgan Godvin
Expansion of the Police Role in Responding to Mental Health Crises Over the Past Fifty Years: Driving Factors, Race Inequities and the Need to Rebalance Roles, Taleed El-Sabawi and Amy C. Watson
Building Better Species: Assisted Evolution, Genetic Engineering, and the Endangered Species Act, Alex Erwin
Effects of hunting on mating, relatedness, and genetic diversity in a puma population, Alex Erwin, Kenneth A. Logan, Daryl R. Trumbo, and W. Chris Funk
Genomic Insights into Isolation of the Threatened Florida Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), Alex Erwin, et al
Transition-Denial and Structural Adjustment: Causation and Culpability in the Cuban Economy Culpability in the Cuban Economy, Jose Gabilondo
Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Kim Kardashian, Cryptocurrencies and the "Major Questions Doctrine", Jerry W. Markham
The Mexican Civil Code of 1928 and the Social Function of Property in Mexico and Latin America, M C. Mirow
The Unfulfilled Promise of Environmental Constitutionalism, Amber Polk
The Freedom of Influencing, Hannibal Travis
Judicial Process and Vigilante Federalism, Howard Wasserman and Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes
Submissions from 2022
Law and Literature in the Work of Robert Cover, Tawia B. Ansah
A Primer on Supreme Court Practices and Procedures, Thomas E. Baker
Differential Treatment of Sexual Assault Cases by US Army Law Enforcement Personnel, Eric Carpenter
Normative Words and the Fundamental Limits of Rape Law Reform, Eric Carpenter
The effect of changing the military’s sexual assault laws on law enforcement investigative findings in the U.S. Army, Eric Carpenter
Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence of Islam as a Race, Cyra Akila Choudhury
Dying Inside: To End Deaths of Despair, Address the Crisis in Local Jails, Taleed El-Sabawi, et al.
The Influence of White Exceptionalism on Drug War Discourse, Taleed El-Sabawi and Jennifer Oliva
Crónica Revisión de Laudos Arbitrales de Inversión 2020: 2do Encuentro Anual (Santiago de Chile, 07-08/06/2021), Manuel A. Gomez and Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca, et al
“Are We Just Going to Sit Back and Wait for ‘Regulatory Roller Coasters’ to Derail? Balancing Public Policy vs. FET Violations in Investment-Arbitration”, Gilberto Guerrero-Rocca
The Relevance of the CISG in Settling International Arbitration Claims Arising Due to COVID-19 in Absence of Force Majeure and Hardship Clauses, Gilberto Guerrero-Rocca
The "Negative Effect" of Inconsistency: The "Dual" Function of Kompetenz-Kompetenz in Latin America and the Venezuelan Case, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
The ICC Reform Process and the Failure to Address the African State Concerns on the Sequencing of Peace with Criminal Justice Under Article 53 of the Rome Statute, Charles C. Jalloh
Rhetoric and the Creation of Hysteria, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagas
Civil Procedure in the Chief Justice's Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Howard Wasserman
Zombie Laws, Howard Wasserman
Solving The Procedural Puzzles of The Texas Heartbeat Act and Its Imitators: New York Times V. Sullivan as Historical Analogue, Howard Wasserman and Charles W. Rhodes
Solving the Procedural Puzzles of the Texas Heartbeat Act and Its Imitators: The Potential for Defensive Litigation, Howard Wasserman and Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes
Solving the Procedural Puzzles of the Texas Heartbeat Act and Its Imitators: The Limits and Opportunities of Offensive Litigation, Howard Wasserman and Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes
Submissions from 2021
Violent Words: Strategies and Legal Impacts of White Supremacist Language, Tawia B. Ansah
Hidden Killers and Imagined Saints: Why Courts Fail to Identify Unconstitutional Jurors in Death Penalty Cases, Eric R. Carpenter
A Model for Defunding: An Evidence-based Statute for Behavioral Health Crisis Response, Taleed El-Sabawi and Jennifer J. Carroll
The Discounted Labor of BIPOC Students and Faculty, Taleed El-Sabawi and Madison Fields
Making the Critical Moves: A Top Ten in Progressive Legal Scholarship, Jorge L. Esquirol
Balance a 10 Años del Reconocimiento al Efecto‐Dual del Principio Kompetenz‐Kompetenz en Venezuela. (Balance 10 years after the recognition of the dual effect of the "Kompetenz-Kompetenz" principle in Venezuela), Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Cuando Las “Montañas Rusas Regulatorias” Descarrilan: Eco Oro-Colombia Y Staur, Ebo & Rox-Letonia, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Pandemics and International Law: The Need to Strengthen International Legal Frameworks after the COVID-19 Global Heal Pandemic [Sierra Leone], Charles C. Jalloh
Regulating Broker-Dealer Investment Recommendations—Laying the Groundwork for the Next Financial Crisis, Jerry W. Markham
Judges for British Subjects in Spanish East Florida, M C. Mirow
Non-Statutory Insiders under the Bankruptcy Code after U.S. Bank National Association v. the Village at Lakeridge, LLC, Scott F. Norberg
Denying Cultural Intellectual Property: An International Perspective on Anjali Vats's The Color of Creatorship, J. Janewa OseiTutu
President Biden’s Executive Orders on the Environment: Praiseworthy Policy, Political Red Herring, or… Both?, Amber Polk
A Domestic Reign of Terror: Donald Trump’s Family Separation Policy, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagas
Fear, Loathing, and the Hemispheric Consequences of Xenophobic Hate, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagas
Environmental Protection and Human Rights in the Pandemic, Sarah C. Slinger, Maria Antonia Tigre, and Natalia Urzola
Crypto Coin Offerings and the Freedom of Expression, Hannibal Travis
A Court with No Names: Anonymity and Celebrity on the Kardashian Court, Howard Wasserman
Congress and Universal Injunctions, Howard Wasserman
The Forum-Defendant Rule, the Mischief Rule, and Snap Removal, Howard Wasserman
Submissions from 2020
MPHAEA & Marble Cake: Parity & the Forgotten Frame of Federalism, Taleed El-Sabawi
Why the DEA & Not the FDA? Revisiting the Regulation of Potentially Addictive Substances, Taleed El-Sabawi
Feeding the World: How Changes in Biotech Regulation Can Jump Start the Second Green Revolution and Diversify the Agricultural Industry, John Alex Erwin and Robert Glennon
Whither the Revolution? Framing Political Animosities between Sexual Minorities and Churches in Cuba's New Constitution, Jose Gabilondo
Venezuela, Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration?, Manuel A. Gomez
After One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Re-Encounter of International Labor Protection and Arbitration, Manuel A. Gomez
The Prodigal Son Comes Home: Ecuador Returns to Investment Arbitration, Gilberto Guerrero-Rocca
De ‘Astivenca’ a ‘Polar’: Balance a 10 Años del Reconocimiento al Efecto-Dual del Principio Competencia-Competencia (Kompetenz-Kompetenz) en el Arbitraje Venezolano, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
El Arbitraje al Rescate de la CISG en Tiempos del COVID-19, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Glencore I: Adopting Stabilization Clauses in Investment Contracts and Seeking Non-Pecuniary Remedies in Investment Arbitration Still Makes Sense Glencore International A.G. and C.I. Prodeco S.A. v. Republic of Colombia (ICSID, Case No. ARB/16/6), Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Glencore I: Nos Recuerda la Necesidad de Pactar Cláusulas de Estabilización en los Contratos de Inversión y a Insistir en Condenas no Monetarias en Arbitrajes de Inversión, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
La CISG en Arbitrajes Internacionales en la era del COVID-19 y en situaciones de Fuerza Mayor o Excesiva Onerosidad, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Validez del Canon Arrendaticio en Moneda Extranjera y la Facultad de los Árbitros de Desaplicar su Prohibición, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
The International Law Commission's First Draft Convention on Crimes Against Humanity: Codification, Progressive Development, or Both?, Charles C. Jalloh
Introduction to the Symposium on a Way Forward: Academic and Practitioner Perspectives on the ILC Draft Articles on Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Humanity as adopted on Second Reading, Charles C. Jalloh and Leila N. Sadat
A Matter for Interpretation: An Inquiry into Confederate Symbolism and the Florida State Flag, Nicholas Mignanelli and Sarah C. Slinger
Reducing Debt and Increasing Access to the Profession: An Empirical Study of Graduate Debt at U.S. Law Schools, Scott F. Norberg and Stephanie J. Garcia
Build the Wall and Wreck the System: Immigration Policy in the Trump Administration, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagás
Training the Next Generation of Law Librarians, Sarah C. Slinger
Concepts, Not Nomenclature: Universal Injunctions, Declaratory Judgments, Opinions and Precedent, Howard Wasserman
Precedent, Non-Universal Injunctions, and Judicial Departmentalism: A Model of Constitutional Adjudication, Howard Wasserman
