Prof. M.C. Mirow has been awarded a grant for research in the State Library and Archives of Florida by the St. Augustine Foundation for his yearlong project “Land Claims in the Superior Court of the Eastern District of Florida 1822-1845.” The project will analyze the way U.S. Territorial Courts in St. Augustine employed Spanish colonial law to protect individual property rights held by residents who claimed their land from the prior Spanish administration of Florida. Having examined similar disputes in the U.S. Supreme Court and in the East Florida Land Commission, Mirow is anxious to read the relatively unexplored documents of this territorial court found only in Tallahassee. Mirow is a member of the Florida bar and was elected a Research Associate of the Historic St. Augustine Research Institute, a collaboration between Flagler College and the University of Florida, two years ago. He writes on property and Florida legal history.