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As we begin the 2025-2026 academic year, I am honored to lead a law school distinguished by its commitment to scholarly excellence, innovative thinking, and collaborative engagement. Our esteemed faculty continue to advance legal thought and social impact—publishing books and articles, achieving victories in important cases, contributing meaningfully to local and national discourse, and receiving recognition around the globe for their scholarship and service. This fall, we welcomed a distinguished faculty lecture featuring Katharina Pistor of Columbia Law School, whose expertise enriched our already vibrant academic community. We look forward to an enriching academic year, and our centennial celebration in 2026 during which we will continue to honor our faculty's achievements through convening events and scholarly lectures. I invite you to explore the latest achievements of our faculty and their meaningful contributions to legal education in this issue of Focus on Faculty.

 

NEW FACULTY, NEW ROLES

 

Leading Business Law Scholar Joins the School of Law

George S. Georgiev brings a wealth of research expertise and practice experience in corporate governance and securities regulation.

 

School of Law Library Welcomes New Librarian Assistant Professors

The appointments enhance the law school’s research and instructional support for students and faculty.

 

Miami Law Expands Commitment to Experiential Learning with New Leadership Positions

Professors JoNel Newman and Bernard Perlmutter have been appointed to the roles of Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and inaugural Director of Law Clinics, respectively.

 

Professor Anthony Alfieri Appointed to Endowed Chair at the School of Law

A faculty member since 1991, Alfieri teaches legal ethics, civil procedure, and law firm management and has published 94 articles on civil rights, ethics, and the legal profession.

 

Faculty QuickLinks

 

Speaker Series

 

Faculty in the News

 

Directory

 

EXPERTS QUOTED IN THE MEDIA


Professor Charlton Copeland in ABCMiami can’t postpone its elections to next year, judge rules


Professor Caroline Mala Corbin in Bloomberg LawBattle over conversion therapy


Professor Andrew Dawson in USA TodayAntonio Brown: an examination of a troubling post-NFL life


Professor Andres Sawicki in CNNTrump is trying to reinvent 1950 with his tariffs. He should be planning for 2050


Professor Stephen Schnably in NPROpposition grows to attorney general's decision not to enforce banning gun sales to buyers under 21


Professor William Widen in ForbesElon Musk’s Robotaxi Dream Could Be A Liability Nightmare For Tesla And Its Owners


 

Faculty Impact

Foundational Art Law Text Published by Cambridge University Press

An expert on art, museum, and cultural property law, Professor Stephen Urice co-authored the sixth edition of Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts.

Professor Kunal Parker’s book recognized—featured in prestigious Balkinization symposium

Parker's book, “The Turn to Process,” was honored to be selected for a symposia by Balkinization, a legal blog focused on constitutional, First Amendment, and other civil liberties issues.

Professor Charles C. Jalloh Takes Students to UN and Geneva as Part of His International Law Seminar

The seminar focuses on the work of the United Nations International Law Commission, allowing students to investigate cutting-edge topics on the ILC agenda.

Bold New Course Examines Constitutional Challenges

Professor Michael Froomkin created the course and brought in an elite group of distinguished legal experts to explore the current interpretation of executive power.

 

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS 2024-25


Patricia Sanchez Abril

Attributing AI Authorship: Towards a System of Icons for Legal and Ethical Disclosure, 22 NW. J. TECH. & INTELL. PROP. 1(2024) (with Joseph J. Avery & Alissa del Riego).

ChatGPT, Esq.: Recasting Unauthorized Practice of Law in the Era of Generative AI, 26 YALE J.L. & TECH. 64 (2024) (with Joseph J. Avery and Alissa del Riego).


Nikita Aggarwal 

AI, Fintech, and the Evolving Regulation of Consumer Financial Privacy, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF AI GOVERNANCE 860 (Justin B. Bullock et al. eds., 2024).

Amazon's Pricing Paradox, 37 HARV. J.L. & TECH. 1 (2024) (with Rory Van Loo).

Locating Consumer Financial Regulation, 46 CARDOZO L. REV. 927 (2025).


Anthony Alfieri

BigLaw’s Race Problem (reviewing Kevin Woodson, The Black Ceiling: How Race Still Matters in the Elite Workplace (2023), 125 COLUM. L. REV. 703 (2025) (with Angela Onwuachi-Willig).


Paula C. Arias

Circular 33/2024 de UEFA, ¿Cambio de Paradigma?, IMPACT LAWYERS (April 30, 2025), (with Enric Ripoll).


Jill Barton 

THE SUPREME GUIDE TO WRITING (2024).


Ricardo J. Bascuas

INVESTIGATIVE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (4th ed. 2024) (with Sam Kamin).


William Bratton 

A History of Corporate Law Federalism in the Twentieth Century, 47 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 781 (2024).

Shareholder Primacy Versus Shareholder Accountability, 47 SEATTLE U. L. REV. 405 (2024).

CORPORATE FINANCE: CASES AND MATERIALS (10th ed. 2025).

Substance and Process in Corporate Law: Theory and History, 50 J. CORP. L. 893 (2025) (with Simone M. Sepe).


Caroline Bettinger-Lopez 

A Client’s Crisis Becomes a Legal Crisis: A Domestic Violence Ruling Goes Global, in CRISIS LAWYERING: EFFECTIVE LEGAL ADVOCACY IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS 13 (Ray Brescia & Eric K. Stern eds., reprint 2024) (2021).

The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and Service Providers in Miami-Dade County: A Case Study, in DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE AS A SHADOW PANDEMIC: AN INTERNATIONAL AND INTERDISCIPLINARY VIEW (Florence Seemungal ed., 2024) (with Denisse Córdova Montes)(forthcoming).


Donna Coker

The Legacy of Ferguson: Building Worker, Community, and Student Power to Respond to the Carceral State, 78 WASH U. J. L. & POL'Y 115 (2025) (with Melody Sinckler & with Kira Mikes).


Charlton Copeland

Antitransgender Legislation and Needs of Transgender Floridians, 2018–2024, 115 AM. J. PUB. HEALTH 1642 (2025) (with Callan Hummel, et al.).


Caroline Mala Corbin 

Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom, 24-19 KNIGHT FIRST AMEND. INST. (Oct 25, 2024).

Religion Clause Challenges to Early Abortion Bans, 104 B.U. L. REV. ONLINE 37 (2024).

The Government Speech Doctrine Ate My Class: First Amendment Capture and Curriculum Bans, 76 STAN. L. REV. 1473 (2024).

Free Speech Originalism: Unconstraining in Theory and Opportunistic in Practice, 92 GEO. WASH. L. REV. 633 (2024).

A Critical Race Theory Analysis of Critical Race Theory Bans, 14 U.C. IRVINE L. REV. 57 (2024).


Michele DeStefano

Generating Confidence in a Legal Non-Profit, LAW360, May 29, 2025.

LEADER UPHEAVAL: A GUIDE TO CLIENT-CENTRICITY, CULTURE CREATION, AND COLLABORATION (2024).


Tamar Ezer 

Integrating Human Rights in Domestic Clinical Practice, 30 CLINICAL L. REV. 345 (2024) (with Elizabeth Brundige, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow & Ryan Thoreson).

Food, Housing, and Racial Justice Symposium, 31 U. MIA INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 77 (2024) (with Denisse Cordova Montes, et al.).

Cities and the Human Right to Housing, OPEN GLOBAL RIGHTS, May 19, 2025, (with Tara Campbell, Robert Robinson & Jackie Smith).

Town Hall on the Sustainable Development Goals and Racial Justice in Miami–Dade County, 15 U. MIA RACE & SOC. JUST. L. REV. 1 (2025) (with Denisse Cordova Montes, et al.).


Renee Valerie G. Fajardo 

Primer on Anthropogenic Nitrous Oxide: The Last Significant Ozone-Depleting Substance and Greenhouse Gas Not Regulated by the Montreal Protocol, Institute for Government and Sustainable Development (2024) (with Durwood Zaelke, et al.).

China’s Ongoing Efforts to Address Methane Emissions and Opportunities to Further Raise China’s Methane Mitigation Ambition, Institute for Government and Sustainable Development, (2024) (with Xiaopu Sun & Richard Ferris).


Abigail Fleming 

Public Health Impacts and Intra-Urban Forced Displacement Due to Climate Gentrification in the Greater Miami Area – Community Lawyering for Environmental Justice and Equitable Development, 78 U. MIA. L. REV. 432 (2024) (with Theresa Pinto, Sabrina Payoute & Elissa Klein).

When Justice Destroys Cement Monsters, 54 U. MEM. L. REV. 889 (2024) (with Photini Kamvisseli Suarez).

Town Hall on the Sustainable Development Goals and Racial Justice in Miami–Dade County, 15 U. MIA RACE & SOC. JUST. L. REV. 1 (2025) (with Tamar Ezer et al.).

The Heart of Partnerships: Working with Environmental and Climate Justice Stakeholder, in TEACHING AND LEARNING CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN LAW SCHOOLS: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSFORMING THE CURRICULUM 130 (Richard Grimes, et al. eds., 2026) (with Douglas Ruley).


Christina M. Frohock

Schrödinger’s Dissent: The Hybrid Authority of a Dissenting Opinion, 107 MARQUETTE L. REV. 963 (2024).

Ghosts at the Gate: A Call for Vigilance Against AI-Generated Case Hallucination, 130 PENN ST. L. REV. (2025)(forthcoming).
68 Style and Substance: A Review of Jill Barton’s The Supreme Guide to Writing, J. APP. PRAC. & PROCESS (2025) (forthcoming).

Winding Authority: Consent by Registration and the Legal Singularity, 70 WAYNE L. REV. 475 (2025).


A. Michael Froomkin

Saving Democracy from the Senate, 2024 UTAH L. REV. 397 (with David B. Froomkin). 

Issues in Robot Law and Policy, in RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 408 (Bartosz Brożek, Olia Kanevskaia & Przemysław Pałka eds., 2024).

ROBOT LAW: VOLUME II (Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin & Kristen Thomasen eds., 2025).

When AIs Outperform Doctors: Confronting the Challenges of a Tort-Induced Over-Reliance on Machine Learning, in ROBOT LAW: VOLUME II 198 (Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin & Kristen Thomasen eds., 2025) (with Ian Kerr & Joelle Pineau).


George S. Georgiev

Human Capital Disclosure & Corporate Governance: The New Evidence, 46 CARDOZO L. REV. 485 (2024).

Reflections on Corporate Governance at Work, 99 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 269 (2024) (with Margaret Blair, et al.).


Susan Haack

Sobre el Pragmatismo Legal: Donde Nos Conduce ¿‘La Senda del Derecho’?, 46 REV. DERECHO 39 (Claudio Aguero San Juan, trans. 2025).

La Filosofía Juridíca Como Filosofía, in SUSAN HAACK: PREMIO INTERNACIONAL DE CULTURA JURÍDICA 2020 27 (Diego Dei Vecchi ed., Edgar Aguilera, trans. 2024).

Ugly Enough to be Safe from Kidnappers: “Pragmatism,” “Pragmaticism,” and the Ethics of Terminology, 60 TRANSACTIONS 1 (2024).


Beth L. Haas

NAVIGATING YOUR LEGAL MASTER’S PROGRAM: A ROADMAP FOR SUCCESS (2024) (with David W. Dye, Sandra Ortland Erickson & Jason A. Fiske).


Elizabeth Iglesias

Democracia Militante para la Multitud, in REPARANDO EL BARCO EN ALTA MAR: AMENAZAS A LA DEMOCRACIA Y ESFUERZOS DE RECONSTRUCCIÓN 25 (2024).


Charles Jalloh

The International Law Commission’s Seventy-Fourth (2023) Session: General Principles of Law and Other Topics, 118 AM. J. INT’L L. 120 (2024).

Cyberwar Strategies and ICC Implications in the Age of AI, 118 PROC. AM. SOC'Y INT'L L. 201 (2024) (with Michael Kelly, et al.).


Donald M. Jones

THE PRESUMPTION: RACE AND INJUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES (2024).


Robert Latham

Youth & Family Alternatives, Inc. v. D.T., 386 So. 3d 617 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2024).


Lili Levi

The U.S. Press: A Legal Framework of Complexity, Contradiction and Uncertainty, in 2 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON PRESS REGULATION 245 (Paul Wragg & András Koltay eds., 2024).

Anti-Antisemitism Now, 78 U. MIA. L. REV. 745 (2024).

Politicizing Antisemitism Amidst Today’s Educational Culture Wars, 27 LEWIS & CLARK L. REV. 1185 (2024).

Countering the Mosaic of Threats to Press Functions, in THE FUTURE OF PRESS FREEDOM: DEMOCRACY, LAW, AND THE NEWS IN CHANGING TIMES 79 (RonNell Andersen Jones & Sonja R. West eds., 2025).

Lessons for the Trump Administration from the Biden "U.S. National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism", 19 FIU L. REV. 789 (2025).


JoNel Newman

HOW TO SET UP AND RUN A LAW CLINIC: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, paperback edn. 2025 (with Donald Nicolson & Richard Grimes). 

HOW TO SET UP AND RUN A LAW CLINIC: PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE, paperback edn. 2025; Armenian translation (with Donald Nicolson & Richard Grimes).


J. Janewa Osei-Tutu

Intellectual Property, Social Justice, and Human Development: Empowering Female Entrepreneurs Through Trademark Law, in THE CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE  435 (Steven D. Jamar & Lateef Mtima eds., 2024).

Intellectual Property’s Role in Eliminating Poverty: SDG 1, in THE ELGAR COMPANION TO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS 37 (Matthew Rimmer, Caroline B. Ncube & Bita Amani eds., 2024).


Jessica Owley

Cinnamon P. Carlarne, Albany Law School's Nineteenth President and Dean, 87 ALBANY L. REV. xi (2023-24) (with Mark Roark et al.).

The Tyranny of Baselines, in ADAPTING TO HIGH-LEVEL WARMING: LAW, GOVERNANCE, AND EQUITY 161 (Katrina F. Kuh & Shannon M. Roesler eds., 2024) (with Karen Bradshaw, Keith Hirokawa & Robin Kundis Craig).

Living the Good Life in the Anthropocene, 54 ENV'T L. REP. 10857 (2024) (with Karrigan Börk et al.).

The Tyranny of Baselines, 54 ENV'T L. REP. 10219 (2024) (with Karen Bradshaw, Keith Hirokawa & Robin Kundis Craig).

Environmental Geography and Law: Toward a Synthesis, 99 TUL. L. REV. 811 (2025) (with Michaela Anang-Hadjicostandi, et al.).

The Ironically Important Role that Incidental Take Authorizations Play in Whale Conservation, 44 STAN. ENVT’L L.J. 167 (2025) (with Alexander Carbaugh-Rutland, and Kenneth Broad).


Kunal Parker

THE TURN TO PROCESS: AMERICAN LEGAL, POLITICAL, AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT, 1870-1970 (2024).  

What Originalism Can Teach Historians: History as Analogy, Means-Ends Tests, and the Problem of History in Bruen, 99 NOTRE DAME L. REV. 1541 (2024).

Book Review (reviewing Luca Falciola, Up Against the Law: Radical Lawyers and Social Movements, 1960s – 1970s (2022)), 21 LAW, CULTURE & HUMANITIES 334 (2025).


Bernard Perlmutter

(After Babel) Stories of State Regulation of Immigrant Parent-Child Conversations: A Comparative Study, in THE STATE’S POWER TO INTERVENE IN FAMILY LIFE (Arkadiusz Wudarski, ed. 2024).


Madeleine Plasencia 

Assemblages and Actor Networks in the Borderlands – The Apposition of Reproductive Rights Along the Mexican-American Border, 24 J.L. SOC’Y 115 (2024).

Redes de Actores en la Frontera. La Oposición de los Derechos Reproductivos a lo Largo de la Frontera Mexicano-Estadounidensein REPARANDO EL BARCO EN ALTA MAR: AMENAZAS A LA DEMOCRACIA Y ESFUERZOS DE RECONSTRUCCIÓN 185 (2024).


Alejandro Portes

IMMIGRANT AMERICA: A PORTRAIT (5th ed. 2024) (with Rubén G. Rumbaut).

URBANIZATION AND MIGRATION IN THREE CONTINENTS (Alejandro Portes & Margarita Rodríguez eds., 2024).

Migration and Development: An Update on Global Trends, in HANDBOOK ON MIGRATION AND DEVELOPMENT: A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC PERSPECTIVE 32 (Raúl Delgado Wise et al. eds., 2024).

A Micro-Sociology of an Emerging Global City: Miami, 63 POPULATION REV. 78 (2024) (with Ryan Bagwell).


Robert E. Rosen

The Perceptive Brandeis: Mindfulness and the Practice of Justice, 67 HOWARD. L. J. 99 (2024).


Pablo Rueda-Saiz

New Legal Realism at 20: Rethinking Law in an Era of Populism and Social Movements, 57 CONN. L. REV. 181 (2024) (with Jeffrey Omari & Richard Ashby Wildon).


Doug Ruley

The Heart of Partnerships: Working with Environmental and Climate Justice Stakeholders, in TEACHING AND LEARNING CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN LAW SCHOOLS: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON TRANSFORMING THE CURRICULUM 130 (Richard Grimes, et al. eds., 2026) (with Abigail Fleming).


Andres Sawicki

The Law of Creativity?, 110 CORNELL L. REV. 135 (2025).

The "Principles of Equity" in Dewberry, 24 CHI.-KENT J. INTELL. PROP. 140 (2025).


Gabriel Scheffler

The Ghosts of the Affordable Care Act, 101 WASH. U. L. REV. 791 (2024).

The Submerged Administrative State, 2024 WIS. L. REV. 789 (with Daniel E. Walters).

Legislating a More Responsive Safety Net, in COVID-19 AND THE LAW: DISRUPTION, IMPACT AND LEGACY 179 (I. Glenn Cohen et al. eds., 2024) (with Andrew Hammond & Ariel Jurow Kleiman). 

What Is the Goal of Health Insurance Reform?, 18 U. ST. THOMAS J. L. & PUB. POL'Y 94 (2025).


Rebecca Sharpless

SHACKLED: 92 REFUGEES IMPRISONED ON ICE AIR (2024).

Commentary: What is a City But Its People?, in URBANIZATION AND MIGRATION IN THREE CONTINENTS 62 (Alejandro Portes & Margarita Rodríguez eds., 2024).


Kele Stewart

Self-Regulation and High School Graduation for Youth With and Without Disabilities in Foster Care, REMEDIAL AND SPECIAL ED. (2024), (with Wendy Cavendish et. al).


Irwin Stotzky

Immunity as Impunity, in 40 CIVIL RIGHTS AND ATTORNEY FEES HANDBOOK 173 (Steven Saltzman, ed., 2025).

The Independent State Legislature Theory: Has It Been Put to Rest?, in 39 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION AND ATTORNEY FEES ANNUAL HANDBOOK (Steven Saltzman ed., 2024).


Scott E. Sundby

WORDSWORTH IN BOGOTA (2024).

The Capital Jury as the Community’s Conscience, in THE SLOW DEATH OF THE DEATH PENALTY: TOWARD A POSTMORTEM 213 (Todd C. Peppers, Jamie Almallen & Mary Welek Atwell, eds., 2025).


Stephen K. Urice

WILLS, TRUSTS, AND ESTATES: THE ESSENTIALS, 3d ed. (2024) (with Reid Kress Weisbord and David Horton).

LAW, ETHICS, AND THE VISUAL ARTS (6th ed. 2025) (with John Henry Merryman & Simon J. Frankel).


Marcia Narine Weldon

Establishing a Future-Proof Framework for AI Regulation: Balancing Ethics, Transparency, and Innovation, 25 TRANSACTIONS: TENN. J. BUS. L. 253 (2024) (with Gabrielle Thomas & Lauren Skidmore).

How to Make Transactional Classes More Engaging and Practical with Blended Learning and Flipped Classrooms: A Practical Framework and a Look at the University of Miami School of Law’s Innovative Approach25 TRANSACTIONS: TENN. J. BUS. L. 971 (2024) (with Ian Nelson). 


William H. Widen

Liability Rules for Automated Vehicle: Definitions and Details, 27 SMU SCI. & TECH. L. REV. 77 (2024) (with Phillip Koopman).

Breaking the Tyranny of Net Risk Metrics for Automated Vehicle Safety, 3 SAFETY-CRITICAL SYS. EJOURNAL art. 1 (2024) (with Philip Koopman).

Redux: Corporate Governance and Management of AI-Driven Product Development, COMPUTER, Nov. 2024, at 95 (with Marilyn C. Wolf).

Human Masters/Robot Servants: Highly Automated Vehicle Design, Intoxicated Drivers & Vicarious Liability, 2025 J.L. & MOBILITY 53 (with Marilyn C. Wolf).

Law as a Design Consideration for Automated Vehicles Suitable to Transport Intoxicated Persons, in 2025 DESIGN, AUTOMATION & TEST IN EUROPE CONFERENCE (with Marilyn C. Wolf).

 

More Faculty Impact Stories

Law Faculty Present Scholarship at 2025 Law and Society Annual Conference


Professor Jessica Owley Participates in IUCN Academy of Environmental Law Colloquium


Professor William Widen Co-Authors Journal Article on Automated Vehicles


Emily Balter Joins the Center for Ethics and Public Service as Practitioner-In-Residence


Professor Nikita Aggarwal Publishes Article on Consumer Financial Regulation


Professor Marcia Narine Weldon Examines How Leaders Make Ethical Decisions Under Pressure


 

FACULTY VOICES

In the weekly podcast from Miami Law, faculty experts examined and explained the law, one headline at a time. Featured episodes include:

S15 E1 Hallucinations causing legal upheaval: As artificial intelligence-generated writing becomes widespread in modern life, hallucinations are showing up with alarming frequency in legal writing. Professor Christina Frohock calls for caution and care. Recorded on July 21, 2025.

S15 E2 The argument for a common currency: The French economist Thomas Piketty recently argued the merits of a common currency in an op-ed in Le Monde. Tax expert Frances Hill examines the impact. Recorded on August 14, 2025.

S15 E3 The brain of a Nickel Boy: A 54-year-old inmate in Florida’s prison system was executed for committing several murders. As a teenager, Michael Bell had spent time at the state’s notorious Arthur G. Dozier school for boys. Innocence clinic director Craig Trocino discusses the connections between traumatic abuse and propensity to commit heinous crimes. Recorded on August 27, 2025.

S15 E4 The future of our planet: Legal perspectives on climate change: The groundbreaking advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice on climate change and its potential to reshape international law and environmental protections is discussed with climate expert Jessica Owley. Recorded September 5, 2025.

S15 E6 Haiti's perpetual crisis: In a capital nearly entirely controlled by gangs, hundreds of Haitians are now trying to return to neighborhoods that have become ghost towns, forced to choose between the warnings of the police and the assurances of the armed groups who destroyed their lives. Haiti expert Irwin Stotzky discusses the quagmire. Recorded September 24, 2025.