Lillian Aponte Miranda

Lillian Aponte Miranda
Associate Professor of Law
305-348-7388 (phone)
mirandal@fiu.edu

B.A., University of Florida
J.D., University of Florida College of Law

Lillian Aponte Miranda teaches courses on Civil Procedure, Property, Human Rights, and Indigenous Peoples in International Law. Professor Miranda received Bachelors of Arts in both English and Political Science as well as a Certificate in International Relations from the University of Florida with Highest Honors, where she was invited to Phi Beta Kappa and was a Rhodes Scholarship Semifinalist. Professor Miranda subsequently earned her Juris Doctor with Honors from the University of Florida Levin College of Law. While at the College of Law, she served as a teaching assistant for three different courses, was selected as a summer clerk for Justice Harry Lee Anstead of the Florida Supreme Court, and became Senior Research Editor and Executive Articles Editor of the University of Florida’s Journal of Law and Public Policy. She began her legal career as a litigation associate at a leading Florida law firm, where she represented corporate clients in complex commercial disputes. In addition to having over three years of teaching experience in legal skills, Professor Miranda also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Oregon School of Law. Professor Miranda’s scholarship, which she has presented at national and international conferences and been invited to discuss at symposia, engages the intersection of international law, human rights, and the rights of minorities and indigenous peoples. She served as the Co-Chair of the American Society of International Law’s Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ Interest Group from 2008-2012 and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Law, Property, and Society.

Recent Publications:

• The Role of International Law in Intra-State Natural Resource Allocation: Sovereignty, Human Rights, and Peoples-Based Development, 45 VAND. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 785 (2012)
• Introduction to Indigenous Peoples’ Status and Rights under International Human Rights Law, in INDIGENOUS PEOPLES AND CLIMATE CHANGE (Edward Elgar) (2012)
• The Role of International Law in Intra-State Natural Resource Allocation, ASIL Annual Conference Proceedings (2012)
• Indigenous Peoples as International Lawmakers, 32 U. PA. J. INT’L L. 203 (2010)
• Uploading the Local: Assessing the Contemporary Relationship Between Indigenous Peoples’ Land Tenure Systems and International Human Rights Law Regarding the Allocation of Traditional Lands and Resources in Latin America, 10 OR. REV. INT’L L. 419 (2008)
• The Hybrid State-Corporate Enterprise and Violations of Indigenous Land Rights: Theorizing Corporate Responsibility and Accountability under International Law, 11 LEWIS & CLARK L.R. 135 (2007)
• The U’wa and Occidental Petroleum: Searching for Corporate Accountability in Violations of Indigenous Land Rights, 31 AM. INDIAN L. REV. 651 (2007)

Research in Progress:

Selected Presentations:

• List of Selected Presentations