This series collects the current and past scholarship of FIU College of Law faculty.
Submissions from 2024
Democracy Will Not Be on the 2024 Ballot in the US Territories, Ediberto Román and Cori Alonso-Yoder
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
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
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
Submissions from 2019
The Common Law as a Terrain of Feminist Struggle, Cyra Akila Choudhury
Carrots, Sticks and Problem Drug Use: The Law Enforcement Lobby's Contribution to the Policy Discourse on Drug Use & the Opioid Crisis, Taleed El-Sabawi
The Role of Pressure Groups and Problem Definition in Crafting Legislative Solutions to the Opioid Crisis, Taleed El-Sabawi
If You Count It, They Will Come, Stanley Fish
Ecuador de Vuelta al Arbitraje de Inversion: Una Fórmula que Venezuela debe Replicar, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Regulating the Sale of Stock Exchange Market Data to High-Frequency Traders, Jerry W. Markham
Securities & Exchange Commission vs. Elon Musk & the First Amendment, Jerry W. Markham
Half-Baked: The Science and Politics of Legal Pot, Joelle A. Moreno
Trump and Caribbean Xenophobia: The United States and the Dominican Republic, Ediberto Román and Dr. Ernesto Sagás
Using Science to Build Better Learners: One School's Successful Efforts to Raise Its Bar Passage Rates in an Era of Decline, Louis N. Schulze Jr.
Sticking to the Union? A Study on the Unionization of Academic Law Libraries, Sarah C. Slinger
The Long Genocide in Upper Mesopotamia: Minority Population Destruction amidst Nation-Building and “International Security”, Hannibal Travis
Submissions from 2018
The Bergdahl Block: How the Military Limits Public Access to Preliminary Hearings and What We Can Do About It, Eric R. Carpenter
Reflections on the Christchurch Massacre: Incorporating a Critique of Islamophobia and TWAIL, Cyra Akila Choudhury
Defining the Opioid Epidemic: Congress, Pressure Groups, and Problem Definition, Taleed El-Sabawi
What Motivates Legislators to Act: Problem Definition & the Opioid Epidemic, A Case Study, Taleed El-Sabawi
Whistleblowers - A Case Study in the Regulatory Cycle for Financial Services, Ronald H. Filler and Jerry W. Markham
Bias, Corruption & Obstruction, Oh My: The Due Process "Shocks the Conscience" Limit on Investigative & Prosecutorial Conduct, Elizabeth Price Foley
Pran Justice: Social Order, Dispute Processing, and Adjudication in the Venezuelan Prison Subculture, Manuel A. Gomez
Arbitraje, Arrendamiento de Uso Comercial y Controversias en Clubes Sociales, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca
Regulating the “Too Big to Jail” Financial Institutions, Jerry W. Markham
Léon Duguit and the Social Function of Property in Argentina, M. C. Mirow
J.D.s and Jobs: the Case for an ABA Accreditation Standard on Employment Outcomes, Scott F. Norberg
Socially Responsible Corporate IP, J. Janewa Osei-Tutu
Allocating Property Interests in Ecosystem Services: From Chaos to Flowing Rivers, Kalyani Robbins
Complementary Authority and the One-Way Ratchet: Ecosystem Services Property, Regulation, and Wildlife Conservation, Kalyani Robbins
Collusion, Obstruction of Justice, and Impeachment, Ediberto Román, Melissa Gonzalez, and Dianet Torres
Profound Sophistication or Legal Sophistry, Ediberto Román, Katryna Santa Cruz, Melissa Gonzalez, and Dianet Torres
“Nationwide” Injunctions are Really “Universal” Injunctions and They Are Never Appropriate, Howard Wasserman
