The ranking, based on a combination student surveys and demographic data submitted by law schools, aims to identify law schools with faculties comprised of a broadly diverse group of individuals and/or underrepresented minority groups.
“The law faculty embody FIU’s culture of global engagement and the value of shared collective experiences,” said Dean Antony Page. “Our professors are a diverse group of individuals that have studied and affected legal policy on six of the world’s seven continents, and our students greatly benefit from that wealth of experience.”
Recent scholarly achievements highlight the geographic, ethnic, and intellectual diversity of FIU Law’s faculty. Among those are Professor Tawia Ansah’s co-authoring a book exploring the concepts of justice and memory in post-genocide Rwanda; Professor Jorge Esquirol’s authoring of twelve articles and essays in four different languages across France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and Colombia; and Professor Cyra Choudhury’s authoring of a forthcoming handbook on third-world approaches to international law and the family.
FIU Law’s student body previously has been acknowledged as among the most racially and ethnically diverse in the country. The College also fosters cultural literacy among its students to help them effectively serve diverse clients across the globe. Students take foundational courses on international and comparative law in the first year of law school and cover those themes in nearly all their upper-division coursework.