Rosario Lozada

Professor Lozada serves as director of Well-Being in Law and Professor of Legal Skills & Values.  She joined the FIU Law faculty in 2012.  Professor Lozada teaches Legal Skills and Values and Mindfulness and the Law.

Professor Lozada’s teaching and pioneering work in well-being in legal education has been recognized by national and state organizations.  She was awarded the 2022 Florida Bar Law Faculty Professionalism Award, the 2022 Legal Writing Institute’s Influential Teaching Award, and the 2021 FIU Torch Award.  Professor Lozada co-developed Well-Being at FIU Law—an initiative that earned the 2021 Gambrell Professionalism Award administered by the ABA Standing Committee on Professionalism.

Engaged in well-being and leadership initiatives nationally and locally, Professor Lozada serves on the Mental Health and Wellness Committee of the Florida Bar and on the board of the Kozyak Minority Mentoring Foundation.  She previously chaired the AALS Section on Balance and Well-Being in Legal Education, and she has developed CLE workshops on mindfulness and well-being.  At FIU, she has facilitated faculty reading groups on mindfulness and social change with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching.

Professor Lozada graduated magna cum laude from Notre Dame Law School and summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame.  She attended law school as a McCafferty Scholar and received the Distinguished Graduate Student Award for excellence in academics and service.  Professor Lozada clerked for the late Edward B. Davis, former Chief Judge of the Southern District of Florida, and was subsequently awarded a two-year Skadden Fellowship.

Professor Lozada is certified as a professional mindfulness teacher by the International Mindfulness Teachers Association, having studied mindfulness with Diana Winston and Marvin G. Belzer, Ph.D., at UCLA’s Mindfulness Awareness Research Center, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior.

Born in Miraflores, Perú, Professor Lozada is a native Spanish speaker.  She enjoys spending time with her family and in nature.

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Latest News:

• Professor Lozada featured in FIU Magazine story “Rx for law and medical students: teaching those under unique pressures how to care for themselves”
• Prof. Rosario Lozada Interviewed by AALS on Promoting Well-Being in Legal Education
• Prof. Rosario Lozada Featured in National Jurist Magazine Cover Story “How to Thrive as a Law Student During a Pandemic”
• Professor Rosario Lozada Schrier co-authors article for Law360
• Assistant Professor of Legal Skills and Values Rosario Schrier co-authors article