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Professor Esquirol has a banner year 2021-22 in publications, with 12 articles and essays to his name in four different languages, published in the U.S., France, Italy, the U.K. and Colombia. Here is the list:

  1. Presumptions and Burdens of Land Restitution in Colombia, 31 Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems 93 (Winter 2021) (26 pages)
  2. Making the Critical Moves: A Top Ten of Progressive Legal Scholarship, 92 University of Colorado Law Review 1079 (2021)(49 pages)
  3. Credit Supports for Italian Specialty Products: The Case of Prosciutto and Long-Aged Cheese, 14:3 FIU Law Review 589 (2021) (24 pages)
  4. Accommodating Access to Property: Land Restitution and Formalization in Colombia, in (Re)Designing Justice for Plural Societies, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Routledge Press (2022) (27 pages)
  5. La culture de la critique aux États-Unis, Archives de Philosophie du Droit (France 2022). In French. (20 pages)
  6. Las presunciones y cargas en la restitución de tierras en Colombia, in Propiedad sobre la Tierra en Colombia (2022) In Spanish. (37 pages) 
  7. Les outils juridiques de la politique économique: L’exemple de la réforme des sûretés en France, Revue des Juristes de Sciences Po (France 2022). In French. (7 pages – 9500 words)
  8. Le strategie intellettuali dell’analisi critica, Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato, Anno XXXIX – 2, Italy (June 2021). In Italian. (39 pages)
  9. Book Review of « Histoire des accaparements de terres d’hier à aujourd’hui » by Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet, Bruylant, in Revue Critique de Droit International Privé, no. 3, 647-53 (2022). In French. (8 pages)
  10. La légitimité comparée : les réformes proposées par la Commission de réflexion sur la Cour de cassation 2030.Cahiers de Justice(forthcoming). In French. (7000 words)
  11. Dead Ends and Blind Alleys in the Future of Work: Notes from Italy,inBeyond Inequality: The Future of Work, Columbia University Press (forthcoming) (12000 words)
  12. The Exceptionality of Latin American International Law, in Oxford Handbook on International Law and the Americas, Oxford University Press (forthcoming).

Before joining the FIU College of Law, Professor Esquirol was on the faculty at Northeastern University School of Law from 1997-2002 and was previously Director of Academic Affairs at the Harvard Law School Graduate Program from 1992-1997. He was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Law for the 2015-16 academic year at the University of Trento in Trento, Italy. He has also been a visiting research professor at the Watson Institute at Brown University, visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Law and the University of Denver College of Law, a resident scholar at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France, and a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. Professor Esquirol earned his undergraduate degree in Finance summa cum laude from Georgetown University, and his J.D. and S.J.D. degrees from Harvard Law School. He clerked for the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida and was an associate attorney at the Wall Street firm of Shearman and Sterling. Professor Esquirol is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese. He is the author of numerous publications in the areas of law-and-development, comparative law, property, and commercial law, including “Ruling the Law: Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems” (Cambridge University Press 2020). He frequently lectures abroad, including at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, University of Perugia and University of Piemonte Orientale in Italy, among others. At FIU, he teaches commercial law, comparative law, and international trade law.