This series collects the current and past scholarship of FIU College of Law faculty.

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Submissions from 2023

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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

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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

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Building Better Species: Assisted Evolution, Genetic Engineering, and the Endangered Species Act, Alex Erwin

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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

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Genomic Insights into Isolation of the Threatened Florida Crested Caracara (Caracara plancus), Alex Erwin, et al

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Transition-Denial and Structural Adjustment: Causation and Culpability in the Cuban Economy Culpability in the Cuban Economy, Jose Gabilondo

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Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Kim Kardashian, Cryptocurrencies and the "Major Questions Doctrine", Jerry W. Markham

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The Mexican Civil Code of 1928 and the Social Function of Property in Mexico and Latin America, M C. Mirow

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Theorizing Revolutionary Property: Mexico's Tardive Turn towards Leon Duguit and the Social Function of Property, M C. Mirow

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The Unfulfilled Promise of Environmental Constitutionalism, Amber Polk

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The Freedom of Influencing, Hannibal Travis

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Judicial Process and Vigilante Federalism, Howard Wasserman and Charles W. “Rocky” Rhodes

Submissions from 2022

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Law and Literature in the Work of Robert Cover, Tawia B. Ansah

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A Primer on Supreme Court Practices and Procedures, Thomas E. Baker

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Differential Treatment of Sexual Assault Cases by US Army Law Enforcement Personnel, Eric Carpenter

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Normative Words and the Fundamental Limits of Rape Law Reform, Eric Carpenter

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The effect of changing the military’s sexual assault laws on law enforcement investigative findings in the U.S. Army, Eric Carpenter

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Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence of Islam as a Race, Cyra Akila Choudhury

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Dying Inside: To End Deaths of Despair, Address the Crisis in Local Jails, Taleed El-Sabawi, et al.

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The Influence of White Exceptionalism on Drug War Discourse, Taleed El-Sabawi and Jennifer Oliva

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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

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The "Negative Effect" of Inconsistency: The "Dual" Function of Kompetenz-Kompetenz in Latin America and the Venezuelan Case, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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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

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Rhetoric and the Creation of Hysteria, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagas

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Civil Procedure in the Chief Justice's Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Howard Wasserman

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Zombie Laws, Howard Wasserman

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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

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Solving the Procedural Puzzles of the Texas Heartbeat Act and Its Imitators: The Potential for Defensive Litigation, Howard Wasserman and Charles W. "Rocky" Rhodes

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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

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Violent Words: Strategies and Legal Impacts of White Supremacist Language, Tawia B. Ansah

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Hidden Killers and Imagined Saints: Why Courts Fail to Identify Unconstitutional Jurors in Death Penalty Cases, Eric R. Carpenter

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A Model for Defunding: An Evidence-based Statute for Behavioral Health Crisis Response, Taleed El-Sabawi and Jennifer J. Carroll

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The Discounted Labor of BIPOC Students and Faculty, Taleed El-Sabawi and Madison Fields

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Making the Critical Moves: A Top Ten in Progressive Legal Scholarship, Jorge L. Esquirol

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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

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Cuando Las “Montañas Rusas Regulatorias” Descarrilan: Eco Oro-Colombia Y Staur, Ebo & Rox-Letonia, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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Pandemics and International Law: The Need to Strengthen International Legal Frameworks after the COVID-19 Global Heal Pandemic [Sierra Leone], Charles C. Jalloh

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Regulating Broker-Dealer Investment Recommendations—Laying the Groundwork for the Next Financial Crisis, Jerry W. Markham

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Judges for British Subjects in Spanish East Florida, M C. Mirow

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Non-Statutory Insiders under the Bankruptcy Code after U.S. Bank National Association v. the Village at Lakeridge, LLC, Scott F. Norberg

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Denying Cultural Intellectual Property: An International Perspective on Anjali Vats's The Color of Creatorship, J. Janewa OseiTutu

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President Biden’s Executive Orders on the Environment: Praiseworthy Policy, Political Red Herring, or… Both?, Amber Polk

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A Domestic Reign of Terror: Donald Trump’s Family Separation Policy, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagas

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Fear, Loathing, and the Hemispheric Consequences of Xenophobic Hate, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagas

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Environmental Protection and Human Rights in the Pandemic, Sarah C. Slinger, Maria Antonia Tigre, and Natalia Urzola

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Crypto Coin Offerings and the Freedom of Expression, Hannibal Travis

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A Court with No Names: Anonymity and Celebrity on the Kardashian Court, Howard Wasserman

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Congress and Universal Injunctions, Howard Wasserman

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The Forum-Defendant Rule, the Mischief Rule, and Snap Removal, Howard Wasserman

Submissions from 2020

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MPHAEA & Marble Cake: Parity & the Forgotten Frame of Federalism, Taleed El-Sabawi

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Why the DEA & Not the FDA? Revisiting the Regulation of Potentially Addictive Substances, Taleed El-Sabawi

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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

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Whither the Revolution? Framing Political Animosities between Sexual Minorities and Churches in Cuba's New Constitution, Jose Gabilondo

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Venezuela, Does a Right to a Physical Hearing Exist in International Arbitration?, Manuel A. Gomez

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After One Hundred Years of Solitude: The Re-Encounter of International Labor Protection and Arbitration, Manuel A. Gomez

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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

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El Arbitraje al Rescate de la CISG en Tiempos del COVID-19, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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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

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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

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La CISG en Arbitrajes Internacionales en la era del COVID-19 y en situaciones de Fuerza Mayor o Excesiva Onerosidad, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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Validez del Canon Arrendaticio en Moneda Extranjera y la Facultad de los Árbitros de Desaplicar su Prohibición, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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The International Law Commission's First Draft Convention on Crimes Against Humanity: Codification, Progressive Development, or Both?, Charles C. Jalloh

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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

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A Matter for Interpretation: An Inquiry into Confederate Symbolism and the Florida State Flag, Nicholas Mignanelli and Sarah C. Slinger

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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

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Build the Wall and Wreck the System: Immigration Policy in the Trump Administration, Ediberto Román and Ernesto Sagás

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Training the Next Generation of Law Librarians, Sarah C. Slinger

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Concepts, Not Nomenclature: Universal Injunctions, Declaratory Judgments, Opinions and Precedent, Howard Wasserman

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Precedent, Non-Universal Injunctions, and Judicial Departmentalism: A Model of Constitutional Adjudication, Howard Wasserman

Submissions from 2019

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The Common Law as a Terrain of Feminist Struggle, Cyra Akila Choudhury

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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

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The Role of Pressure Groups and Problem Definition in Crafting Legislative Solutions to the Opioid Crisis, Taleed El-Sabawi

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If You Count It, They Will Come, Stanley Fish

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Ecuador de Vuelta al Arbitraje de Inversion: Una Fórmula que Venezuela debe Replicar, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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Regulating the Sale of Stock Exchange Market Data to High-Frequency Traders, Jerry W. Markham

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Securities & Exchange Commission vs. Elon Musk & the First Amendment, Jerry W. Markham

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Half-Baked: The Science and Politics of Legal Pot, Joelle A. Moreno

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Trump and Caribbean Xenophobia: The United States and the Dominican Republic, Ediberto Román and Dr. Ernesto Sagás

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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.

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Sticking to the Union? A Study on the Unionization of Academic Law Libraries, Sarah C. Slinger

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The Long Genocide in Upper Mesopotamia: Minority Population Destruction amidst Nation-Building and “International Security”, Hannibal Travis

Submissions from 2018

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The Bergdahl Block: How the Military Limits Public Access to Preliminary Hearings and What We Can Do About It, Eric R. Carpenter

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Reflections on the Christchurch Massacre: Incorporating a Critique of Islamophobia and TWAIL, Cyra Akila Choudhury

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Defining the Opioid Epidemic: Congress, Pressure Groups, and Problem Definition, Taleed El-Sabawi

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What Motivates Legislators to Act: Problem Definition & the Opioid Epidemic, A Case Study, Taleed El-Sabawi

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Whistleblowers - A Case Study in the Regulatory Cycle for Financial Services, Ronald H. Filler and Jerry W. Markham

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Bias, Corruption & Obstruction, Oh My: The Due Process "Shocks the Conscience" Limit on Investigative & Prosecutorial Conduct, Elizabeth Price Foley

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Pran Justice: Social Order, Dispute Processing, and Adjudication in the Venezuelan Prison Subculture, Manuel A. Gomez

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Arbitraje, Arrendamiento de Uso Comercial y Controversias en Clubes Sociales, Gilberto A. Guerrero-Rocca

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Regulating the “Too Big to Jail” Financial Institutions, Jerry W. Markham

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Léon Duguit and the Social Function of Property in Argentina, M. C. Mirow

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J.D.s and Jobs: the Case for an ABA Accreditation Standard on Employment Outcomes, Scott F. Norberg

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Socially Responsible Corporate IP, J. Janewa Osei-Tutu

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Allocating Property Interests in Ecosystem Services: From Chaos to Flowing Rivers, Kalyani Robbins

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Complementary Authority and the One-Way Ratchet: Ecosystem Services Property, Regulation, and Wildlife Conservation, Kalyani Robbins

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Collusion, Obstruction of Justice, and Impeachment, Ediberto Román, Melissa Gonzalez, and Dianet Torres

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Profound Sophistication or Legal Sophistry, Ediberto Román, Katryna Santa Cruz, Melissa Gonzalez, and Dianet Torres

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“Nationwide” Injunctions are Really “Universal” Injunctions and They Are Never Appropriate, Howard Wasserman

Submissions from 2017

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An Empirical Look at Commander Bias in Sexual Assault Cases, Eric R. Carpenter

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Patriarchy, Not Hierarchy: Rethinking the Effect of Cultural Attitudes in Acquaintance Rape Cases, Eric R. Carpenter