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Faculty
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University of California at Berkeley Aya Gruber is an associate professor of law and member of the founding faculty of Florida International University College of Law. As the primary criminal law scholar at FIU, Professor Gruber has taught criminal law to all FIU first year students, as well as teaching criminal procedure and advanced criminal procedure to upper division students. Professor Gruber completed her undergraduate studies in Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, where she received departmental honors for her thesis, graduated summa cum laude, and was named to Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor on the Harvard Women’s Law Journal and the Harvard International Law Journal. After clerking for the Honorable James Lawrence King, on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Professor Gruber served as a felony trial attorney with the Public Defender Service in Washington, D.C and Federal Public Defender in Miami. Professor Gruber joined the FIU law faculty in 2002 as an assistant professor, becoming an associate professor in 2005. Professor Gruber’s main research areas are substantive criminal law and procedure, with an emphasis on victim’s rights and liability, critical race and feminism, and national security and constitutional law. Professor Gruber has published in prominent law reviews and has presented her scholarship at several conferences, including, SEALS, LatCrit, and Law and Society, as well as at various faculty colloquia. A frequent public speaker on civil liberties and criminal justice, Professor Gruber has appeared on Fox News International, ABC, PBS, and TV Marti. She has also been quoted in various newspapers, including the Miami Herald and Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel, on topics ranging from civil rights to the death penalty. ARTICLES: Garbage Pails and Puppy Dog Tails: Is This What Katz is Made Of?, ___ U.C. DAVIS L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2007). The Geneva Canon: International Law as a Tool of Legislative Interpretation in the Terrorism Cases, ___ FIU L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2007). The Feminist War on Crime, ___ IOWA L. REV. ___ (forthcoming 2007). Raising the Red Flag: The Continued Relevance of the Japanese Internment in the Post Hamdi World, 54 KANSAS L. REV. 307 (2006). Navigating Diverse Identities: Building Coalitions through Redistribution of Academic Capital, an Exercise in Praxis, 35 SETON HALL L. REV 1201 (2005). Righting Victim Wrongs: Responding to Philosophical Criticisms of the Nonspecific Victim Liability Defense, 52 BUFFALO L. REV 101 (2004). Victim Wrongs: The Case for a Criminal Defense Based on Wrongful Victim Behavior in an Era of Victim’s Rights, 77 TEMP. L. REV. 645 (2003). Pink Elephants in the Rape Trial: The Problem of Tort-type Defenses in the Criminal Law of Rape, 4 WM. & MARY J. WOMEN & L. 203 (1998). Public Housing in Singapore: The Use of Ends-based Reasoning in the Quest for a Workable System, 38 HARV. INT’L L. J. 236 (1997).
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