Jessica Carvalho Morris, Director of the International and Foreign Graduate Programs, received a Bacharel em Direito degree (J.D. equivalent) from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil and a J.D. degree cum laude from the University of Miami School of Law. She was a member of the Law Review in Brazil and served as a research assistant to both Professor Keith Rosenn and Professor Michael Fischl at the University of Miami School of Law. She received the Dean's International Merit Scholarship and the Claude M. Olds Memorial Scholarship, and received the Dean's Certificate of Achievement and the CALI award for the International Moot Court. In the 2003 Phillip C. Jessup International Moot Court Competition she received third place award for the best brief. She also participated in the London Summer Program and the Leipzig Exchange Program. She is admitted to practice in Brazil, Florida, and the Southern District of Florida.
Prior to joining the University of Miami School of Law as the Director of the International Graduate Law Programs, Director Morris worked for the U.S. federal agency the National Labor Relations Board as a field attorney and Greenberg Traurig as an associate where she worked in a variety of civil and complex commercial litigation disputes relating to tax, contract and employment issues.
Director Morris is a member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA. Since January 2004, she has been the coordinator for the Miami Chapter of Amnesty International. She organized the largest Florida state conference in 2006 and the Southern Regional Conference in 2007, both at the School of Law, and has significantly expanded the fundraising and membership of the Miami Chapter with regular events. She also co-chairs the Civil Rights Committee of the Florida Bar and is a member of the board for the Florida International University Women's Center Advisory Council. Director Morris has published and lectured on international human rights and aspects of Brazilian and American constitutional law.
Telephone and Office
Jessica Carvalho Morris, Esq.
Director
International and Foreign Graduate Programs
University of Miami School of Law
1311 Miller Drive, Room A211A
Coral Gables, FL 33124
305-284-5402
jmorris@law.miami.edu
Main Publications and Presentations
- Lecturer at seminars and conferences on international human rights in the U.S. and Brazil.
- Moderated panel on immigration at the 2007 Regional Conference of Amnesty International in Miami, Florida, in October 2007.
- Presented a workshop on the death penalty in Spanish at the 2007 Regional Conference of Amnesty International in Miami, Florida, in October 2007.
- Presented a workshop on the "War on Terror" at the 2007 State Meeting of Amnesty International in Boca Raton, Florida, in April 2007.
- Presented a workshop on Multiculturalism at the 2007 Annual General Meeting of Amnesty International in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in March 2007.
- Lectured at the Universidade Potiguar do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, on the current state of international human rights in June 2007.
- Presented a workshop on Multiculturalism at the 2006 Regional Conference of Amnesty International in New Orleans, Louisiana, in November 2006.
- Presented workshop on Violence Against Women at the 2006 Florida State Meeting of Amnesty International in Miami, Florida, in February 2006.
- Lectured at the Universidade Potiguar do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, on the current state of international human rights in July 2005.
- Presented a paper on Hate Speech Over the Internet in the Seminar between the University of Miami and the University of Leipzig, Germany, in Miami/FL, March 2002.
- Reviewed and collaborated in the translation of the article Constitutional Review in Brazil: Recent Developments published in REVISTA DE DIREITO ADMINISTRATIVO. Rio de Janeiro, 227: I-V; 1-481 Jan./Mar. 2002.
- Wrote the article The Social Function of Punishment and the Minimal Involvement of Criminal Law. Published in part in the JOURNAL OF THE SIXTH CONFERENCE OF THE CENTER OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES, 2000.
- Awarded Second Place Award for the presentation of the paper on Criminal Law in the Face of Current Tendencies Regarding Criminology at the FIRST CONGRESS OF THE AMERICAS ON CRIMINAL SCIENCE, May 2000; the paper was later published in the book THE STUDY OF LAW, vol. 3, CRIMINAL LAW - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE AND CRIMINOLOGY, 2002.
- Presented and published the paper Current Tendencies in Criminology and the Possibility of their Implantation in Brazil in the SIXTH CONFERENCE OF THE CENTER OF APPLIED SOCIAL SCIENCES in Natal/RN, Brazil, 2000.
- Wrote the article The Impact of the Equality Principle and the Law Number 9.799/99 on Women Labor in Brazil in the LAW REVIEW IN VERBIS, n. 9/10, vol. 4, 1999.
- Wrote the article The Judiciary and Citizenship in the JOURNAL OF THE III BRAZILIAN CONGRESS ON CIVIL AND LABOR PROCEDURES, 1999.
- Wrote the article Domestic Violence Against Women and the Actions of the Public Ministry in Ceará-Mirim in a book entitled THE PUBLIC ATTORNEY AND LAW STUDENTS IN FAVOR OF SOCIETY edited by Prof. Gilka da Mata Dias, 1998. Presented the article in the Congress of Environmental Law, in Natal/RN, Brazil, June 1998.
- Wrote the article Considerations on the Reform of the Judiciary in the LAW REVIEW IN VERBIS, n. 5, vol. 3, 1997. Presented the article at the 50th Annual Reunion of Brazilian Society of Cultural Research, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal/RN Brazil, July 1998.
Main Interviews
- October 18, 2007 - Interviewed in Spanish regarding the case Texas v. Medellin currently before the Supreme Court. Director Morris addressed the right to consular representation pursuant to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the violation of that right by the U.S. as it relates to foreign nationals currently on death row. Aqui y Ahora, Univision.
- September 4, 2007 - Participated in TV show Ultima Palabra on GenTV regarding the death penalty. The one hour show discussed the death penalty and its implications. Director Morris highlighted the problems with the application of the death penalty including its ineffectiveness as a deterrent, the risk of executing innocents and current world trend towards abolitionism.
- June 17, 2007 - Quoted in the Miami Herald. "Dad's lessons, wisdom help shape our lives," column by Ana Menendez.
- January 2007 - Interviewed by news program on Channel 7 regarding the fifth anniversary of Guantanamo Bay and its detainees.
- February 25, 2006 - Quoted in the Miami Herald regarding the use of torture. "A harrowing tale, and a plea for the future," column by Ana Menendez.
- March 2, 2005 - Interviewed by Neida Sandoval host of TV show Despierta America, Univision, about the Supreme Court's decision on Roper v. Simmons, ruling by five votes to four that the use of the death penalty against people under the age of 18 at the time of the offence contravenes the US Constitutional ban on "cruel and unusual punishments". The decision, delivered on March 1, 2005, meant that the lives of over 70 child offenders on U.S. death rows would be spared and no others would be sentenced to death.
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