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Ediberto Román
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor of Law
305-348-2444 (phone)
romane@fiu.edu

B.A., Lehman College, City University of New York
J.D., University of Wisconsin

Associate Dean Ediberto Roman is primarily responsible for curricular and academic program development. Before coming to the FIU College of Law, Dean Roman taught at Lehman College and St. Thomas University School of Law.

In addition to his administrative experience, Dean Roman has been both a productive scholar and an accomplished educator. He has written well over a dozen law review articles and book chapters, and has won three teaching awards as a law teacher. His teaching awards include two Professor of the Year honors, and he was the first law professor to be awarded one of the Barry University-St. Thomas University "Excellence in Scholarship" grants. Before entering academia, he specialized in securities and antitrust litigation at several Wall Street law firms. From 1995 to 2002, he was an associate professor and then professor of law at St. Thomas University School of Law. In 2003, he became one of FIU College of Law’s founding faculty.

His teaching interests include contracts, torts, corporations, comparative corporate law, products liability, agency and partnership, antitrust, citizenship studies, law and accounting, race and the law, remedies, and street law. His scholarly works cover a wide range of areas, including international law, securities regulation, evidence, constitutional law, critical race theory, post-colonial discourse, and law and literature. His articles have appeared in law reviews from universities such as, Harvard, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, Iowa, Miami, Villanova, San Diego, Rutgers, and Florida State. He is the author of a chapter in a book on colonialism published by the NYU press, and his most recent work is a book entitled “ The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of The United States’ Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests” published by Carolina Academic Press.

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