This series collects the current and past scholarship of FIU College of Law faculty.
Submissions from 2008
The Future of the Economic Analysis of Law in Latin America: A Proposal for Model Codes, Juan Javier del Granado and M C. Mirow
Trouble Counting Votes - Comparing Voting Mechanisms in the United States and Selected Other Countries, Frank Emmert, Christopher Page, and Antony Page
The Failed Law of Latin America, Jorge L. Esquirol
Titling and Untitled Housing in Panama City, Jorge L. Esquirol
Cuban Claims: Embargoed Identities and the Cuban-American Oedipal Conflict (el grito de la Yuma), Jose M. Gabilondo
Irrational Exuberance for Babies: The Taste for Heterosexuality and its Conspicuous Reproduction, Jose M. Gabilondo
Monetizing Diaspora: Liquid Sovereigns, Fertile Workers, and the Interest-Convergence Around Remittance, Jose M. Gabilondo
Breve Resumen al Tratamiento Jurisprudencial de la Sala Constitucional Venezolana sobre el Arbitraje, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Ashes to Ashes: Comparative Law Regarding Survivors’ Disputes Concerning Cremation and Cremated Remains, Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod
The Alien Invasion, Ediberto Román
Freeriders and Diversity in the Legal Academy: A New Dirty Dozen List, Ediberto Román and Christopher B. Carbot
Consenting Adults? Why Women Who Submit to Supervisory Sexual Harassment are Faring Better in Court than Those Who Say No…And Why They Shouldn’t, Kerri Lynn Stone
License to Harass: Holding Defendants Accountable for Retaining Recidivist Harassers, Kerri Lynn Stone
Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the Victims to Reparations, Hannibal Travis
Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and the European Union: Copyright, Safe Harbors, and International Law, Hannibal Travis
Video Evidence and Summary Judgment: The Procedure of Scott v. Harris, Howard Wasserman
Jurisdiction, Merits, and Non-Extant Rights, Howard M. Wasserman
Jurisdiction, Merits, and Procedure: Thoughts on a Trichotomy, Howard M. Wasserman
Prosecuting Aggression, Noah Weisbord
Submissions from 2007
Seizures Without Searches: Defining Property Seizures and Developing a Property Seizure Model, Eric R. Carpenter
A Uniform Domestic Partnership Act: Marrying Business Partnership and Family Law, Jennifer Ann Drobac and Antony Page
All In The Family: The Influence of Social Networks on Dispute Processing, Manuel A. Gómez
The Contribution of the Special Court for Sierra Leone to the Development of International Law, Charles Chernor Jalloh
Marbury in Mexico: Judicial Review’s Precocious Southern Migration, M C. Mirow
Taking Stock of the First Amendment's Application to Securities Regulation, Antony Page
Missing the Link: The Importance of Keeping Ecosystems Intact and What the Endangered Species Act Suggests We Do About It, Kalyani Robbins
Evaluating Katrina: A Snapshot of Renters’ Rights Following Disasters, Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod and Olympia Duhart
Coalitions and Collective Memories: A Search for Common Ground, Ediberto Román
Transactional Law in the Required Legal Writing Curriculum: An Empirical Study of the Forgotten Future Business Lawyer, Louis N. Schulze Jr.
Politics of Deference and Inclusion: Toward a Uniform Framework for the Analysis of ‘Fundamental Alteration’ Under the ADA, Kerri Lynn Stone
Are Issuers of and Dealers in Securities Immune from Lawsuits Arising Under Federal and State Antitrust Laws?, Hannibal Travis
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right, Hannibal Travis
Jurisdiction, Merits, and Substantiality, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2006
Sovereignty, Identity, and the Apparatus of Death, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
Applied Freakonomics: Explaining the "Crisis of Volume", Thomas E. Baker
Reflections on Law Schools and the Idea of the University, Thomas E. Baker
Asking the Straight Question: How to Come to Speech in Spite of Conceptual Liquidation as a Homosexual, Jose M. Gabilondo
Financial Moral Panic! Sarbanes-Oxley, Financier Folk Devils, and Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement, Jose M. Gabilondo
Gloria’s Story and Guatemala’s Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, and Religion, M C. Mirow
Toxic Torts, Autism, and Bad Science: Why the Courts May Be Our Best Defense Against Scientific Relativism, Joelle A. Moreno
Debtor Discharge and Creditor Repayment in Chapter 13, Scott F. Norberg and Andrew Velkey
The Citizenship Dialectic, Ediberto Román
Homer Simpson Meets the Rule Against Perpetuities: The Controversial Use of Pop-Culture in Legal Writing Pedagogy, Louis N. Schulze Jr.
Google Book Search and Fair Use: iTunes for Authors, or Napster for Books?, Hannibal Travis
Wi-Fi Everywhere: Universal Broadband Access as Antitrust and Telecommunications Policy, Hannibal Travis
Bartnicki as Lochner: Some Thoughts on First Amendment Lochnerism, Howard M. Wasserman
Fans, Free Expression, and the Wide World of Sports, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2005
A Terrible Purity: International Law, Morality, Religion, Exclusion, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
Genocide and the Eroticization of Death: Law, Violence, and Moral Purity, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
Book Review to In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors, Eric R. Carpenter
Sending the Right Signals: Using Rent-Seeking Theory to Analyze the Cuban Central Bank, Jose M. Gabilondo
Like Migratory Birds- Latin American Claimants in U.S. Courts and the Ford-Firestone Rollover Litigation, Manuel A. Gómez
Las Asociaciones de Usuarios y Consumidores en la Nueva Ley de Protección al Consumidor y al Usuario, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Ending Impunity The Case for War Crimes Trials in Liberia, Charles Chernor Jalloh and Alhagi Marong
The Code Napoléon, Buried but Ruling in Latin America, M C. Mirow
Faith-Based Miranda: Why the New Missouri v. Seibert Police Bad Faith Test Is a Terrible Idea, Joelle A. Moreno
Strategies for Challenging Police Drug Jargon Testimony, Joelle A. Moreno
Batson's Blind-Spot: UnconsciousStereotyping and the Peremptory Challenge, Antony Page
Controlling Corporate Speech: Is Regulation Fair Disclosure Unconstitutional, Antony Page and Katy H. Yang
Immigration and the Allure of Inclusion, Ediberto Román
Freedom or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq, Hannibal Travis
The Battle for Mindshare: The Emerging Consensus that the First Amendment Protects Corporate Criticism and Parody on the Internet, Hannibal Travis
Cheers, Profanity, and Free Speech, Howard M. Wasserman
Jurisdiction and Merits, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2004
Constitutional Theory in a Nutshell, Thomas E. Baker
Rulemaking from the Bench: A Place for Minimalism at the ICTY, Megan A. Fairlie
In Memoriam: Jerry Phillips: A Scholar & a Gentleman, Elizabeth Price Foley and Elizabeth C. Price
El Régimen Actual de los Intereses para la Financiación de Vehículos, (Análisis Crítico a la Providencia Nº 30 Dictada por el INDECU), Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
International Law and Religion in Latin America: The Beagle Channel Dispute, M C. Mirow
A Courtroom Diagnosis: Countering the Defense of Temporary Brittle Bone Disease and Mild OI, Joelle A. Moreno
What Happens When Dirty Harry Becomes an [Expert] Witness for the Prosecution?, Joelle A. Moreno
“Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds”: Airline Liability for Checked-In Jewelry, Eloisa Rodriguez-Dod
Continuity of Congress: A Play in Three Stages, Howard M. Wasserman
Symbolic Counter-Speech, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2003
Surprised by Sin: Human Rights and Universality, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
War: Rhetoric and Norm-Creation in Response to Terror, Tawia Baidoe Ansah
Continuing Fictions of Latin American Law, Jorge L. Esquirol
Affirming Brahimi: East Timor Makes the Case for a Model Criminal Code, Megan A. Fairlie
Due Process Erosion: The Diminution of Live Testimony at the ICTY, Megan A. Fairlie
Controversias Constitucionales y Conflictos de Autoridad: Una Necesaria Distinción, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Accountants Make Miserable Policemen: Rethinking the Federal Securities Laws, Jerry W. Markham
Einstein on the Bench?: Exposing What Judges Do Not Know about Science and Using Child Abuse Cases to Improve How Courts Evaluate Scientific Evidence, Joelle A. Moreno
Eyes Wide Shut: Hidden Problems and Future Consequences of the Fact-Based Validity Standard, Joelle A. Moreno
Translating Visions of Rationality into Specific Legal Reforms, Joelle A. Moreno
LatCrit VI, Outsider Jurisprudence and Looking beyond Imagined Borders, Ediberto Román
Civil Rights Plaintiffs and John Doe Defendants: A Study in § 1983 Procedure, Howard M. Wasserman
The Trouble With Shadow Government, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2002
A Roundtable Discussion With Stephen L. Carter & Michael J. Gerhardt, Thomas E. Baker
A Symposium Précis, Thomas E. Baker
At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Thomas E. Baker
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in a Crisis: A Few Pages of History, Thomas E. Baker
Human Cloning & the Right to Reproduce, Elizabeth Price Foley
The Constitutional Implications of a Cloning Society, Elizabeth Price Foley
Super Regulator: A Comparative Analysis of Securities and Derivatives Regulation in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan, Jerry W. Markham
Reparations and the Colonial Dilemma: The Insurmountable Hurdles and Yet Transformative Benefits, Ediberto Román
Membership Denied: Subordination and Subjugation under United States Expansionism, Ediberto Román and Theron Simmons
Compelled Expression and the Public Forum Doctrine, Howard M. Wasserman
Structural Principles and Presidential Succession, Howard M. Wasserman
Submissions from 2001
A Roundtable Discussion with Lawrence Lessig, David G. Post & Jeffrey Rosen, Thomas E. Baker
