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Since April of last year, I have had the honor of leading a law school with amazing scholars. Their commitment to teaching and research continues to enhance our students' education and enrich the broader legal community. We will recognize our faculty achievements this spring with the investiture of Professor Anthony Alfieri to the Michael R. Klein Distinguished Scholar Chair and the retirement celebration of Professor Bernard Oxman. We must also remember Professor Marc A. Fajer, who passed away in December. His dedication to justice will always serve as an inspiration. I hope you enjoy reading the latest highlights of the University of Miami School of Law's faculty, and their impactful contributions to legal education.

 

NEW FACULTY, NEW ROLES

 

International Law Expert on Criminal, Human Rights, Humanitarian, and Trade Joins the School of Law

Charles C. Jalloh, the Richard A. Hausler Chair in Law, started teaching in the 2025 spring semester.

 

Professor Charlton Copeland Is Named as Associate Dean of Pedagogical Innovation

A gifted teacher and dedicated mentor, Professor Copeland will serve in this new role for two years.

 

Cultural Intellectual Property, Human Rights, and Human Development Expert Joins Faculty

Professor Jan Osei-Tutu focuses on the impact of IP on society. Her research centers on the connection between trade-related intellectual property, human development, and human rights.

 

Law and Technology, Financial Law Expert Joins Miami Law Faculty

Associate Professor Nikita Aggarwal currently teaches a course examining the rise of fintech in the U.S. She came to Miami Law from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.

 

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Faculty Impact

Professor Andres Sawicki’s Article Reviewed as One of Best Works of Scholarship

The intellectual property law expert’s article makes major advances in the understanding of how creativity works and what law can do to better encourage it.

UM Delegation Led by Professor Jessica Owley Shines at COP29 in Azerbaijan

The University of Miami team, known for cultivating strong connections with governments and NGOs in recent years, has taken significant strides in its engagement.

Professor John Newman Helps Draft Amicus Brief in Epic Games v. Google

Professor Newman was the lead drafter of an amicus brief for the Ninth Circuit in Epic Games v. Google, where over twenty other professors and the American Antitrust Institute signed on supporting Epic Games.

School of Law Convenes Leading Minds on Latin America

Miami Law hosted The Seminar on Latin American Constitutional and Political Theory (SELA). At this authoritative, regional conference, international scholars discussed complex theoretical issues of law, society, and policy of significance to the Americas.

 

More Faculty Impact Stories

School of Law Faculty Advocate for "Courage in Action" at AALS Annual Meeting


Professor Craig Trocino's Paper Selected as One of Top Papers at UN


Professor Caroline Bradley’s Paper Cited in the Regulatory Review


Professor Jill Barton Publishes Book "The Supreme Guide to Writing"


Professor Christina Frohock’s Article Cited in Two State Supreme Court Opinions and in U.S. Supreme Court Petition


 

FACULTY VOICES

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

S14 E3 WILL SWIFTIES TOPPLE TICKETMASTER? Swifties outraged at excessive ticket fees have been joined by 40 state and district attorneys general in antitrust suits against Live Nation Entertainment. Professor JOHN NEWMAN maps out the cases. Recorded on February 13, 2025.

S13 E12 BUY NOW, PAIN LATER The global Buy Now, Pay Later market was valued at over $15 billion. Consumer finance law expert NIKITA AGGARWAL jumps into the fray of this largely unregulated industry. Recorded October 31, 2024.

S13 E10 EXECUTING THE INNOCENT The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in an Oklahoma death penalty case where the state attorney asked for a new trial, and the state's highest court rejected the argument. Capital crimes expert SCOTT SUNDBY untangles the issues. Recorded October 17, 2024.

S13 E7 THE END OF CHEVRON The U.S. Supreme Court swept aside a legal precedent that federal agencies relied on to defend thousands of rules. Constitutional scholar CHARLTON COPELAND looks at the fallout. Recorded on September 25, 2024.

S13 E6 MO' MONEY, MO' PROBLEMS? After multiple sexual assault lawsuits and Homeland Security raids, Sean "Puff" Combs was arrested in NY. Criminal law expert TAMARA LAVE unpacks the charges. Recorded on September 19, 2025.

 

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS 2024-25

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 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 1 (2024) (with Rory Van Loo).

Jill Barton 

THE SUPREME GUIDE TO WRITING (2024).

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).

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).

Caroline Mala Corbin 

Regulating LGBTQ Speech in the Classroom, Knight First Amend. Inst. 24-19 (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).

Tamar Ezer 

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

In Punishing Homelessness, the U.S. Abandons Human Rights, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (October 10, 2024), (with Abigail Wettstein).

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 Zaelke D., Hull A., Dreyfus G., Sun X., Ferris R., & Miller J.).

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 Sun X., Ferris R.).

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).

Christina M. Frohock

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

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

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).

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).

Robert Latham

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

Lili Levi

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).

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 (with Arkadiusz Wudarski, ed.) (Max Planck Institute/Mohr Siebeck Verlag) (2024).

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

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

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).

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-Estadounidense, in 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., no. 1, 2024, at 78 (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, 1 U. Conn. Law Rev. 57 (2024) (with Jeffrey Omari, Richard Ashby Wildon).

Andres Sawicki

The Law of Creativity?, 110 Cornell L. Rev. 62 (2024).

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, WIS. L. REV. 789 (2024) (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). 

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).

Irwin Stotzky

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).

Stephen K. Urice

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

Francisco Valdes

Defeat Fascism, Transform Democracy: Mapping Academic Resources, Reframing the Fundamentals, and Organizing for Collective Actions, 47 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1057 (2024).

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 Approach , 25 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).