Professor M.C. Mirow has been appointed a MacCormick Fellow at Edinburgh Law School, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, for 2016 by the Visiting Committee of the Law School. According to the university, the fellowship is “a prestigious visiting fellowship named in honour of Professor Sir Neil MacCormick (1941-2009), Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh from 1972 to 2008. . . . MacCormick Fellowships are particularly well suited for senior researchers already well established in their fields.” Fellows are required to dedicate their time to research and to deliver a lecture on their work.
Mirow will write on various aspects of colonial law in Florida during his fellowship, which coincides with a sabbatical leave from FIU Law. “Edinburgh University is an international center for legal history, and I look forward to have an uninterrupted period to focus on the British period of Florida’s colonial legal history. I was surprised to find that several of the royal officials and judges during this period were from Scotland, so Edinburgh is the perfect place to work on this project. I am so happy the Visiting Committee invited me,” said Mirow.
Mirow is a founding faculty member and a member of the Florida bar.
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