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S.J.D. 2001, Harvard Law
School J.D. 1989, Harvard Law School
B.S.B.A. 1986, Georgetown University

Before joining the FIU College of Law, Professor Esquirol was a professor of law at the Northeastern University School of Law from 1997-2002 and Director of Academic Affairs at the Harvard Law School Graduate Program from 1992-1997. He has been a resident scholar at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France, a visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Law, and a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. As Director of Academic Affairs, he had administrative responsibility for the Harvard Law Graduate Programs; taught LL.M. students; administered the International Legal Studies Program and related conferences, lectures and workshops; and planned several international law conferences. Professor Esquirol earned his B.A. in Finance summa cum laude from Georgetown University. After earning his J.D. degree at Harvard, he clerked on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and was an associate attorney at the Wall Street firm of Shearman and Sterling. He has a doctoral degree in law (S.J.D.) from Harvard Law School, focusing on Latin American legal systems. Professor Esquirol is fluent in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. He teaches international law, comparative law and commercial law at FIU.

PUBLICATIONS:

• “The Failed Law of Latin America" forthcoming
• Alejandro Alvarez: A Question of Identity, 19 Leiden Journal of International Law 931 (2006)
• Continuing Fictions of Latin American Law, 55 Florida Law Review 31 (2003)
• “Hacia dónde va Latinoamérica? Una crítica al enfoque sociojurídico sobre América Latina” in Mauricio García Villegas and César A. Rodríguez, eds., Derecho y Sociedad en América Latina: Un Debate Sobre los Estudios Jurídicos Críticos. ILSA (2003).
• At the Head of the Legal Family: René David, Chapter 8 in Re-thinking the Masters of Comparative Law, Hart Publishing (ed. Prof. Annelise Riles, Northwestern University School of Law) (2001).
• Can International Law Help? An Analysis of the Colombian Peace Process. 16 Connecticut Journal of International Law 23-93 (Fall 2000)
• Negotiating Colombia’s Peace Process: Disagreements of International Law. 13 Leiden Journal of International Law 495 (2000)
• “El Proceso de Paz: Conforme al Derecho Internacional” in El Derecho como la Continuación del Conflicto y el Lenguaje de la Paz. Plaza & Janes Editores: Bogotá, Colombia (1999) (Received Best Book Award by the Bogotá Book Chamber of Commerce in the area of Law and Social Sciences, 2000).
• The Fictions of Latin American Law, 1997 Utah Law Review 425 (Fall 1997).

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