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Marisol Floren-Romero
Foreign Law/Reference Law Librarian
305-348-0014
florenm@fiu.edu

B.A., Universidad de Navarra, Spain
M.L.S., University of Texas in Austin
Phd., University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

Marisol Floren-Romero comes to FIU from the Dominican Republic where she worked for the past seven years in judicial reform projects. She worked under the Supreme Court of Justice of the Dominican Republic and the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB) in the reform of the property rights system of the DR; and earlier as Deputy Director in the reform of the criminal courts system of the city of Santo Domingo under the National Center for States Courts and USAID. She previously served as information specialist for the law firm Pellerano & Herrera, developing a bibliographic and full text database of Dominican legal materials, including the laws and decisions of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Dominican Republic.

Librarian and bibliographer M. Floren also worked compiling a national bibliography of the Dominican Republic covering the years from 1844-1986; co-author of Bibliografia del Derecho Dominicano, 1844-1998 (AHHB, 1999); and reviewer of Latin American legal publications for Gaceta Judicial.

She received her Bachelors degree summa cum laude in History from the University of Navarra, in Pamplona, Spain; a M.L.S. (Library Science) with a minor in Latin American Librarianship, from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Phd in Library and Information Science, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She earned Fullbright and OAS scholarships to pursue graduate education in the United States. She has lived in Colombia, Spain, the Dominican Republic and the United States.

At FIU, Marisol Floren will be developing the international, comparative and foreign law collection for the College of Law Library and providing reference assistance to students and faculty of the College of Law.

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