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MIAMI – On March 23, 2012, Professor Juan Pablo Pampillo, Director of the Center for Legal Research at the Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, Mexico, delivered a talk entitled A New Ius Commune for the Americas: Reflections on Hemispheric Legal Integration to the faculty.  Professor Pampillo holds a law degree from the Escuela Libre de Derecho (Mexico City) and a research Doctorate in Law from the Complutense University (Madrid). He is the author of several books, including El Primer constitutionalista de Mexico (Porrua) and Historia general del derecho (Oxford University Press).  He was a guest of Professor del Granado’s and the Office of International & Graduate Studies of the College of Law.

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MIAMI (March 07, 2012) — FIU Law Professor H. Scott Fingerhut has been appointed by The Florida Bar to the Board of Legal Specialization & Education National Accreditation Subcommittee in order to review the national accreditation application in DUI defense for the National College of DUI Defense.

The Subcommittee’s review is intended to enable the BLSE to evaluate the objectives, standards, and procedures of such programs to ensure for the public the continued value of “certified,” “board certified,” “specialist,” and “expert” as a means to identify lawyers who have demonstrated special competence, skills, and proficiency, as well as character, ethics, and professionalism in the practice of law.

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MIAMI (February 28, 2012) — FIU College of Law congratulates Professor Manuel Gomez on his selection for two prestigious academic posts on international dispute resolution. Based on the nominations of peers, Professor Gomez was selected to join the Institute of Transnational Arbitration’s (ITA) Academic Council, as well as the scientific committee for the VIII Conference of the World Mediation Forum (WMF).

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Professor Joëlle Moreno will address an international audience of over 300 radiologists, pediatricians, emergency room physicians, radiologic technologists, health care professionals and legal professionals at a medical-legal conference in Orlando, FL.  Her two talks on Responsible Experts and The Law of Child Abuse Evidence will be presented at a medical-legal conference sponsored by the American Academy of Pediatrics entitled Imaging of Child Abuse:  Fact, Fiction and Responsible Action.

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Faculty Spring Workshop Series – Tuesday, January 17

Guest: Professor Jim Pfander (Northwestern)
Room: RDB Faculty Lounge.
Time: Lunch served at Noon
Remarks begin at 12:30PM

Sponsors include Blackberry, Google, Intel, MercadoLibre, Microsoft, Nokia, and Yahoo! 

MIAMI (December 6, 2011) – Professor Hannibal Travis will address the Latin American Public Policy Forum on Internet, E-commerce and Mobile Technologies and will discuss safe harbors for Internet service providers against copyright infringement claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998.  Also speaking at the forum were members of the in-house counsel departments for Latin America of Yahoo! and Google.

The event will take place on Tuesday, December 6 at the Four Season on Brickell Avenue in Miami, Florida.

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Faculty Fall Workshop Series – Tuesday, October 11th

Guest: Professor Richard Albert (Boston College Law School)
Topic: Our Amoral Constitution
Room: RDB 1009.
Time: Lunch served at Noon
Remarks begin at 12:30PM

Faculty Fall Workshop Series – Tuesday, September 20th

Guest: George Knox (Florida International University College of Law)
Topic: Teaching Mindfulness and Awareness Disciplines in Law School, A Cutting-Edge Solution to a Pervasive Problem in the Profession.
Room: RDB 1009.
Time: Lunch served at Noon
Remarks begin at 12:30PM

MIAMI (September 15, 2011) — FIU Law Professor Joelle Moreno will address the annual COJUMA meeting at United States Southern Command today. The COJUMA (Comite Juridico Militar de las Americas) is the American Military Legal Committee and includes military and civilian attorneys from the region.

Professor Moreno will discuss, “How Legitimate Evidentiary Principles and Practice Help to Establish and Maintain the Rule of Law” to an audience of Senior Military officials and civilian representatives from 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean

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