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M.C. Mirow
Associate Professor of Law
305-348-8347 (phone)
mirowm@fiu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
B.A.,
Boston University
J.D.,
Cornell Law School
Ph.D.
(law),
Cambridge University
Ph.D.
(law),
Leiden University
An award-winning teacher and member of the Florida Bar, Professor Mirow has taught law in the United States, Colombia, England, and Spain. He teaches in the areas of property, wills, international and comparative law, Latin American law, and legal history. Mirow has held a Golieb Fellowship at NYU School of Law and has served as a General Reporter to the Société Jean Bodin. Holding diplomas in Spanish from Cambridge University and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, he is an affiliated faculty member of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU and the site director for the law school’s summer program in Seville. Mirow is on the Board of Editors of the Law and History Review and is a book review editor for the American Journal of Legal History.
Recent Publications:
GLOBAL ISSUES IN PROPERTY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (West Publishing, 2006) (with J. Sprankling and R. Coletta).
LATIN AMERICAN LAW: A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LAW AND INSTITUTIONS IN SPANISH AMERICA (University of Texas Press, 2004).
Latin American Law, in NEW OXFORD COMPANION TO LAW (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007)
South and Central America: Overview, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007).
Wills: English Common Law, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2007).
Case law in Mexico 1861-1919 – The work of Ignacio Luis Vallarta, in RATIO DECIDENDI: GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL DECISION (Berlin: Dunker & Humblot, 2006).
Gloria’s Story and Guatemala’s Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, and Religion, 24 LAW & HIST. REV. 441-446 (2006).
Andrés Bello, Sucesiones, y el Código Civil Frances de 1804, in SESQUICENTENARIO DEL CÓDIGO CIVIL: PASADO, PRESENTE Y FUTURO DE LA CODIFICACIÓN (Universidad de Chile, 2005)
The Code Napoléon, Buried but Ruling in Latin America, 33 DENV. J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 179-194 (2005).
Le Code Napoleón régit-il toujours l’Amérique Latine d’outre-tombe? in LE CODE CIVIL, 1804- 2004, ENTRE IUS COMMUNE ET DROIT PRIVÉ EUROPÉEN 179-204 (Bruxelles: Bruylant, 2005).
El Code Napoléon y los Códigos de Bello y de Vélez Sarsfield, 33 REVISTA DE DERECHO PRIVADO 1-21 (Bogotá, 2005).
Individual Experience in Legal Change: Exploring a Neglected Factor in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Codification, 11 SW. J. L. & TRADE AM. 301-321 (2005).
International Law and Religion in Latin America: The Beagle Channel Dispute, 28 SUFFOLK TRANSNAT’L L. REV. 1-29 (2004).
El origen común de los códigos de dos continentes, in EL FUTURO DE LA CODIFICACIÓN EN FRANCIA Y AMÉRICA LATINA 75-77 (Paris: Association Andrés Bello, 2004).
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