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

S10 E4 Saving Colombia's Indigenous Land from Big Oil

Comparative law expert Pablo Rueda Saiz looks at the campaign to stop oil drilling on Indigenous lands.

S11 E1 The Global Heat Wave

Miami Law’s Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic Doug Ruley handicaps the planet's chance of surviving the climate crisis.

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Paula Arias

Member, Scientific and Editorial Committee, UNIDA Cientifica Magazine, Universidad UNIDA.

Elected Vice President of the Colombian American Bar Association in USA.

Caroline S. Bettinger-Lopez

Opinion, Domestic-Violence Service Providers Need Our Help as Reports of Abuse Surge During COVID, MIA. HERALD, Feb. 4, 2022, at 13A (with R. Denisse Cordova Montes and Celia Davies) (2022).

Senior Advisor on Gender & Equality, U.S. Department of Justice.

Tamar Ezer

Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas, BILL OF HEALTH BLOG (Aug. 2, 2023), (with Jordan Brooks).

Addressing Officer-Perpetrated Gender-Based Violence and Ending the “Blue Wall of Silence”, INTLAWGRRLS BLOG (Mar. 17, 2023).

Localizing Human Rights in Cities, 31 S. CAL. REV. L. & SOC. JUST. 67 (2022).

Gender Justice and Human Rights Symposium: Holistic Approaches to Gender Violence, U. MIAMI INT’L & COMPAR. L. REV., Fall 2022, at 217 (with Denisse Cordova Montes, et al.).

Presenter, “Creative Multimedia Advocacy in Clinical Legal Education,” AALS Clinical Conference, 2023.

Presenter, “Global Change at a Local Stage: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward for City-Academic Partnerships,” Occidental College’s Young Institute on the Global Political Economy and the University of Southern California’s Institute on Inequalities in Global Public Health, 2023.

Sandra Friedrich

International Commercial Arbitration Practice in the United States, in 1 INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL ARBITRATION PRACTICE: 21ST CENTURY PERSPECTIVES 14-1 (Horacio A. Grigera Naón & Paul E. Mason eds., 2d ed. 2010 & rev. Dec. 2022) (with Richard L. Williamson & John H. Rooney, Jr).

Elizabeth Iglesias

Named Director of University of Miami School of Law’s Doctor of Juridical Science Program.

R. Denisse Cordova Montes

U.S. Anti-Black Immigration Policies are the Afterlife of Slavery, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (May 30, 2023), (with Gabrielle Thomas).

Using International Human Rights Law to Address Hunger in the U.S., BUS., ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TAX L. REV., Fall 2022, at 1.

Gender Justice and Human Rights Symposium: Holistic Approaches to Gender Violence, U. MIAMI INT’L & COMPAR. L. REV., Fall 2022, at 217 (with Tamar Ezer, et al.).

Opinion, Domestic-Violence Service Providers Need Our Help as Reports of Abuse Surge During COVID, MIA. HERALD, Feb. 4, 2022, at 13A (with Caroline Bettinger-Lopez and Celia Davies).

Presenter, “Creative Multimedia Advocacy in Clinical Legal Education,” AALS Clinical Conference, 2023.

Presenter, “Global Change at a Local Stage: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward for City-Academic Partnerships,” Occidental College’s Young Institute on the Global Political Economy and the University of Southern California’s Institute on Inequalities in Global Public Health, 2023.

Jessica Owley

The Afterlife of Confederate Monuments, 98 IND. L.J. 371 (2023) (with Jess Phelps).

Confederate Heritage Organizations and Confederate Monument Removal, 71 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y 77 (2023) (with Jess Phelps).

Vermin of Proof: Arguments for the Admissibility of Animal Model Studies as Proof of Causation in Toxic Tort Litigation, 34 GEO. ENV'T L. REV. 303 (2022) (with Kristen Ranges).

Quoted in “Court Battles Will Ensue Following Approval of Oil Drilling Project.”

Quoted in “Score One for Youth on Climate Ruling."

Presenter, judicial obstacles to environmental protection with a focus on recent developments in takings law, Association of Law, Property, and Society (ALPS).

Participant, “The Future of Housing: Resilient Property Perspectives and Sustainable Solutions” at Spain’s Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law. (June 2023).

Presenter, book launch of Squatting and The State (by Lorna Fox O’Mahony and Marc Roark) at the University of Essex, discussing housing rights and environmental protection in the context of climate change (June 2023).

Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law, Property, and Society.

Co-founder, Environmental Law Collaborative.

Member, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and World Commission of Protected Areas.

Member, Resilience Property Theory Group. 

Member, Graduate Program Committee, University of Miami Climate Resilience Academy.

Bernard Oxman

The Fortieth Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 99 INT'L L. STUD. 865 (2022).

United States Representative, Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.

Chair, English Language Group of the Conference Drafting Committee, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Served as co-editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law.

Served as vice-president of the American Society of International Law.

Member, Institut de Droit International, the American Law Institute, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.

Ileana Porras

Book Review, 57 CISTERCIAN STUD. Q. 134 (2022) (reviewing MICHAEL PATRICK O’BRIEN, MONASTERY MORNINGS: MY UNUSUAL BOYHOOD AMONG THE SAINTS AND MONKS (2021)).

Alejandro Portes

EMERGING GLOBAL CITIES: ORIGIN, STRUCTURE, AND SIGNIFICANCE (2023) (with Ariel C. Armony).

Self-Employment as an Alternative to Labor Market Bifurcation: The Role of Human and Ethnic Social Capital, 62 POPULATION REV., no. 1, 2023, at 1 (with Ryan Bagwell).

Introduction: Cities and Migration, 46 ETHNIC & RACIAL STUD. 2280 (2023).

Pablo Rueda-Saiz

Targets, Fields, and Tactics: Multi-Institutional Legal Mobilization in the Campaign of the U’wa People in Colombia, 2 MICH. J.L. & SOC’Y 37 (2023).

Irwin Stotzky

Keeping Immigrants Out and Expelling Immigrants Who Are Here: Title 42 and The Migrant Protection Protocols Controversy, in 38 CIVIL RIGHTS LITIGATION AND ATTORNEY FEES ANNUAL HANDBOOK (Steven Saltzman ed., 2023).

Albert Jan van den Berg

Does an Annulled Award Constitute Legal Authority in Investment Arbitration? in ARBITRATION BEYOND BORDERS: ESSAYS IN MEMORY OF GUILLERMO AGUILAR ÁLVAREZ 447 (W. Michael Reisman & Nigel Blackaby eds., 2023).