Archive for 'M. C. Mirow'

Third-year law students Latoya Brown and Alejandro Gutierrez will publish articles they originally prepared for a seminar in Comparative Law, in two upcoming national law publications.

Brown’s article, “The Regulation of US Money Market Funds: Lessons from Europe,” will appear in the spring edition of Brigham Young University’s International Law and Management Review. Gutierrez’s article, “The Pitfalls of At-Will and Just Cause Employment: A Comparative Analysis of Employment Law in the United States and Colombia,” will be published in Volume 19 of the ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law.

“It is a great achievement to get published, especially as a student,” said Brown. “I am grateful to have the support of professors who encourage us to push the creative envelope and think outside the box.”

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MIAMI (Feb. 18, 2013) – The Florida International University College of Law is pleased to announce a new graduate degree in law, the LL.M., a one-year residential course of study for attorneys holding their first law degree from outside the United States.

The LL.M. provides an introduction to and in-depth study of the law of the United States.  Students will gain a general, conversant level of understanding of U.S. legal institutions, substantive law, and practice.  This program at FIU Law, housed in Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall, offers an academically demanding education to students who seek additional training to advance their scholarly or practical work as lawyers.  The course of study is tailored to the individual needs and interests of the student.

As South Florida’s only public law school, FIU Law is known for its diverse faculty and students, its emphasis on comparative and international law, and its service to the public.  In keeping with Miami’s business and community, many of its faculty members work in international areas or have international experiences.  FIU Law has received numerous awards and recognitions including most recently being ranked as the No. 1 school for Hispanics and the third most diverse law school by The National Jurist.

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Professor M.C. Mirow has recently been appointed to serve another five-year term on the Editorial Board of the Law and History Review, the official peer-review journal of the American Society for Legal History.

Law and History Review, published by Cambridge University Press, is internationally recognized as the leading journal in the field and examines the history of law from ancient to modern times. The journal’s purpose is to further research in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions. The Review features articles, essays, commentaries by international authorities, and reviews of important books on legal history.

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The Spain-Florida Foundation 500 Years brought together leading Latin American legal experts, diplomats and the former heads of government of Uruguay, Spain and El Salvador to discuss the impact and legacy of the Constitution of Cadiz.  The two-day conference, hosted by the FIU College of Law, was titled “Homage to the Bicentenary of the 1812 Cadiz Constitution” and started on Oct. 18, 2012.

Matthew C. Mirow, Associate Dean of International & Graduate Studies and Professor of Law, served as a panelists on a discussion on the historical aspects of the Constitution of Cadiz. In his presentation, Mirow addressed the promulgation of the Constitution of Cadiz in Florida.

“This Constitution governed Spanish Florida from 1812 to 1815 and then again from 1820 until 1821 when Spain turned Florida over to the United States,” said Mirow.  “Daily political life in Florida’s Spanish colonial cities was governed by this document, and cities like St. Augustine ordered their activities around the requirements, rights, and duties expressed in this Constitution.”

The basis for this talk has just been published by Mirow in 24 Florida Journal of International Law 1-60 (2012).

Professor Matthew Mirow will complete a three-year term on the Southern Cone Regional Review Panel of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, Washington, DC, this year. The Council administers the award of Fulbright U.S. Visiting Scholars, commonly referred to as Fulbright Professors, for the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Board.

The Fulbright is recognized as the United States’ premiere academic exchange program.  Over the past three years, Mirow has reviewed hundreds of applications by university professors seeking to teach or to do research in the countries comprising the Southern Cone, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Paraguay.

Mirow, who had a Fulbright to Chile in 2009, said, “It is a great deal of fun to read and discuss applications from professors around the U.S. in all sorts of fields.  The Fulbright not only changes the lives of these professors but also touches so many students and professors in the host universities.  I have no doubt that the Fulbright program is tax money well spent.   It has really been an honor to have played a small part in the Fulbright process.”

Professor Mirow will deliver a talk on the Spanish Constitution of Cadiz’s importance in colonial Florida to the 18th Congreso del Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano, in Cordoba, Argentina, at a plenary session of the congress on July 18, 2012.

With over 60 presentations by professors from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, El Salvador, Italy, France, Mexico, Peru, Spain, and Venezuela, the congress is often considered the most important gathering of historians of Spanish colonial law.  Mirow and FIU are the only presenter and university from the United States listed in the program.  Presentation at the congress is by invitation.

“It is really an honor for me to be invited to the congress and to represent Florida and the United States at this international event.  There is an incredible amount of interest from the Spanish-speaking world about the colonial period in Florida, it laws and institutions, and its promulgation of the Constitution of Cadiz 200 years ago,” Mirow said.

In preparation for the Floridian bicentennial of the Constitution in October, 2012, FIU Law Professor M.C. Mirow has published Florida’s First Constitution: The Constitution of Cádiz (Carolina Academic Press, 2012).  Along with an introductory essay describing the importance of the Constitution in Florida and the Spanish Empire, Mirow provides a fresh and authoritative translation of the text into English along with original version in Spanish.

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