News ArchivE 2009
November 2009
- Premier Environmental Advocacy Organization Awards UM Law Students Prestigious Externships
- Reception to honor life and achievements of law professor Alan C. Swan
- UM Law Student Spencer Roach Featured in the National Jurist
- Super Lawyers magazine ranks UM Law 20th in Nation
- UM Law Students Provide Ethics Training for ABA Section of International Law
- HOPE Public Interest Resource Center holiday auction supports student public interest activities
- UM Law to honor Federal Public Defender Kathleen Williams, JD ‘82
- UM Law’s Faculty Speaker Series: Why Didn’t They Ask the Tax Experts? Congress, Treasury, and the Responses to the Home Mortgage Crisis
- UM Law’s Faculty Speaker Series: “Development of New Financial Products and the Choice of Law Abyss”
- Alumna Edith G. Osman Honored by the Anti-Defamation League
- Advanced Moot Court Competition: Prominent Judges and Attorneys to evaluate UM Law Students
- The Miami Herald features UM Law's Foreclosure Defense Fellowship Program
- Key Issue – Immigrants and the American Health Care System – Presented at UM Law
- UM Law Hosts International Arbitration Seminar
- UM Law’s Faculty Speaker Series: Public corporations and current legal controversies – a look at how today’s general counsels deal with PR in the court of public opinion
- Can a juvenile be imprisoned for life without possibility of parole? UM Law's expert faculty discusses this issue in International Law Lecture Series
October 2009
- International Law Scholar Markus Wagner Speaks at Two Conferences in New Zealand
- UM Law Students and Alumni Committed to Equal Justice
- UM Law Students Present Ethics Training at Miami-Dade Public Defender’s Office
- UM Law’s Faculty Speaker Series: Professor David Abraham
- UM Law Professors, Alumni, and Students Participate in 2009 Fall Meeting of ABA Section of International Law
- Alejandro Portes, Director of the Center for Migration and Development at Princeton University, to Speak at UM Law
- UM Law School Raises Money to the Tune of Jackson’s Thriller
- Ilya Shapiro, Editor-in-Chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review, to Speak at the Law School.
- New Foreclosure Fellowship Program and Alumna Yolanda Paschal Featured in TIME Magazine
- Professor Susan Haack Publishes New Research Paper, Analyzing the Marriage of Science and Law
- UM Law Hosts Wellness Week
- World Trade Organization Attorney Comes To UM Law For International Law Lecture Series
- International Arbitration Course Hosted by UM Law
- Immigration Law Professor David Abraham Participates in Berkeley Symposium on Citizenship
- UM Law Professor Irwin P. Stotzky Publishes New Book on Constitutional Scholar Owen Fiss
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Receives Training from UM Law Students
- Arie Freiberg, Dean of Australia’s Monash University School of Law, to Speak at UM Law
- Professor JoNel Newman participates in Books & Books event on Vamos A Cuba Case
- UM Law Students Hold Ethics Training at Catholic Charities
- 40 Teams Compete in UM Law’s Intra-School Negotiation Competition
- Professor A. Michael Froomkin to speak at Internet Seminar in London
- Professor Jennifer Zawid Joins International Family Law Experts at ABA Family Law Conference
- ABA Diversity Commission Names Frank Angones, JD ’76, Among 2010 Spirit of Excellence Awardees
- International Law Lecture Series Continues with Brazilian Federal Judge Eduardo Apio
- UM Law Student Wins Supreme Court Week Lesson Plan Contest
- It’s Mock Trial Time!
The Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Hosts the 2009 Annual Mock Trial Competition
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Networking Dinners Give UM Law Students One-on-One Time with Local Attorneys.
- Immigration Law Professor David Abraham to Speak at American Society for Legal History Conference
- Tax Expert Professor Frances Hill speaks on Citizens United case at ABA Meeting
- Maritime Law Expert Professor Bernard Oxman Invited to Chair Panel at International Law Conference
- Fighting the Foreclosure Crisis Foreclosure Defense Specialist April Charney, JD’ 80, Shares Expert Advice in Workshop
- HOPE, the Law School’s Public Interest Hub, Opens Its Annual Online Auction
- Open House: Saturday, October 3, 2009
September 2009
- Defending Foreclosure in Florida Workshop: Friday, October 2, 2009
- "I Do Solemnly Swear..." Justice R. Fred Lewis, JD '72, Swears UM Law Grads In To Florida Bar
- International Graduate Program Kicks off Lecture Series at UM Law
- Faculty Speaker Series Continues with Professor Caroline Corbin
- Famed Biologist Cites Professor Susan Haack in American Educator Article
- Professor Charlton Copeland speaks at Villanova’s Law and Literature Symposium
- UM Law Celebrates New Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center
- Law School Hosts Bar Swearing-In Ceremony
- UM Law Establishes Nation’s First Therapeutic Jurisprudence Center
- From Kyrgyzstan to UM Law: Muskie Fellowship Brings International Student to Study at UM Law
- New Research by UM Law Professor Analyzes the Corporate Attorney-Client Privilege
- President Obama Nominates UM Law Alumnus to Top Tax Post
- American Board of Certification names Professor Widen as Director
- National Association of Law Placement Names Assistant Dean Marcy Cox to New Commission on Legal Recruiting
- The Meaning of Pragmatism: Professor Susan Haack Speaks at Iowa State University
- Florida’s Largest Child Welfare Conference includes Professors Perlmutter and Williams
- New Book on Mindfulness for Law Students Released: Dean Stearns Authors Preface
- Miami DCA Holds Gay Adoption Hearing: UM Law Students Attend
- Taming Credit Rating Agencies, a discussion with UM Law Professors Widen and Kettering
- New UM Law School Clinic to Help Immigrants
- Nazi War Crimes Prosecutor Gives Lunchtime Lecture at UM Law
- So You Want to Become a Judge? UM Law Alumni Relations Dean Georgina Angones Speaks at HNBA Convention
- Center for Ethics Hosts 9th Annual Fall Reception
- Career Development Office Presents Small Firm Week
- Exercising Smart Seminar hosted on September 12
- Law School Hosts Summit on Counsel for Children
- UM Law Hosts Panel on Treatment of Muslims in U.S. Since 9/11
- UM Law alumna Lettie J. Bien, JD ’86, was Mistress of Ceremonies at Iraqi Women’s Initiatives Conference
- UM Law Ranks Among the Best in Hispanic Business Magazine
- Florida Bar’s 2009 G. Kirk Haas Humanitarian Award and Scholarship go to UM Law Alumna and 2L
- Professor Abraham Speaks at Immigration Conferences in D.C. and Denmark This Fall
- Marni Lennon, UM Law’s Assistant Dean for Public Interest and Pro Bono, Elected to Serve a Second Term as Chair of the Equal Justice Works National Advisory Committee
- UM Law alumna Julie Braman Kane appointed President of FAWL
August 2009
- Hail to the (Iron Arrow) Chief! 2L is Elected to Lead Honor Society
- The Center for Democracy & Technology Selects Professor A. Michael Froomkin for New Fellows Program
- ABA President and UM Law alumna Carolyn Lamm Advocates for Changes in the Juvenile Justice System
- AAP Director Joanne Harvest Koren Leads Training Session at 2009 LSAC Workshop
- Professor Bernard H. Oxman Invited to Give Inaugural Address at Hague Academy's Summer Programme
- Dean Patricia D. White Named to New 14-member ABA Commission on Economic Crisis and the Legal Profession
- Professor Bernard Perlmutter Presents Testimony on Psychotropic Medication to Department of Children and Families
- UM Law Professors Speak at 2009 SEALS Conference
- Orientation Week 2009: Much More than a Meet and Greet
- 1L Among Six Nationwide to be Selected for Prestigious JAG Program
- Third-Year Law Student Contributes to Navajo High Court Draft Opinion during Summer Internship
- Alumnus Michael Diaz, Jr. featured in Business Week Article on Asset Forfeiture
- UM Law alumnus Patrick S. Montoya named President of Miami Chapter of American Inns of Court
- UM Law Alumnus Appointed Chief Financial Officer at Energy Telecom, Inc.
- More than 350 Students Participate in 10th Annual HOPE Day of Service
- American Bar Association installs UM Law alumna Carolyn Lamm as President at 2009 Annual Meeting
- Seeing New Horizons for UM Law: Dean Patricia White speaks with Miami Today’s Risa Polansky
July 2009
- UM Law student Len Aslanian Wins EJW Summer Corps Standout Award
- UM Law alumna Yeshimebet Abebe appointed to USDA post
- UM Law Professor Stanley Langbein comments on Build America Bonds in Bloomberg.com article
- UM Law Adjunct Professor Jesse M. Keenan discusses Mortgage Modifications on Bloomberg.com
- President Obama nominates UM Law alumnus Joe Garcia as Director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Minority Economic Impact
- Six UM Law Professors Participate in NYU’s 31st International Congress on Law and Mental Health
- UM Law Student Completes Semester Abroad in Tokyo
- In Memoriam: The School of Law mourns the passing of former Miami-Dade County Circuit Court Judge Rosemary Holmes Usher Jones
- UM Law alumnus Paul A. Calli named Winning Attorney by National Law Journal
- UM Law Adjunct Professor and alumnus George R. Harper sworn in as President of the Inter-American Bar Association
- Handwritten Notes cannot Substitute for Wills, says UM Law alumna and staff attoney Olga Porven
- UM Law Lecturer Edgardo Rotman Presents Papers at Conferences in New York and Belgium
June 2009
- UM Law Professor Elizabeth M. Iglesias submits comments to the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Sotomayor's confirmation
- UM law students take high honors at International Arbitration and Commercial Law Competition
- UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick to receive 2009 Philippe Pinel Prize
- Sarah Mourer to lead the Law School’s Litigation Skills Program
- CIA honors late UM Law alumnus Gregg Wenzel
- Wilkie D. Ferguson, Jr. Bar Association joins CEPS Historic Black Church Partnership
- UM Law's Jan Jacobowitz published in FAWL Journal's Spring 2009 issue
- Rising 3L Mia Goldhagen Takes Juvenile Shackling Amendment to Florida Supreme Court
- UM Law Professor Jan Paulsson named a Vice President of ICC World Council
- UM Law Professor Mary Coombs speaks at 2009 Bioethics Summer Conference
- UM Law Visiting Professor David Nelken to receive 2009 Sellin-Glueck Award in Criminology
- UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick featured in Veritas article after No Barriers Festival
- UM Law Professor Frances R. Hill says conflicts of interest were inherent at Tarzana Treatment Center
- UM Law alumna Carroll J. Kelly, JD '89, named Administrative Judge of the Domestic Violence Division of the Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida
- UM Law alumnus Ervin A. Gonzalez named among the Top 10 Attorneys in Florida by Florida Super Lawyers Magazine
- UM Law alumnus Jeffrey Sloman, JD ’83, appointed Acting U.S. Attorney
- UM Law Announces New Joint Degree and Distance Learning Programs
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri says BSO Deputy's Case "Highlights Several Failures"
- UM Law Professor A. Michael Froomkin Cited in Federal Appeals Court Ruling
- Two UM Law Graduates Awarded Everglades Foundation Congressional Fellowships
- CIA Officer Killed in Ethiopia Identified as 1994 UM Law Graduate Gregg Wenzel
- UM Law alumnus Jordan Dresnick, JD ’08, elected to DCBA's Board of Directors
- UM Law Professor Kenneth M. Casebeer Conducts Labor Law Seminar at AFL-CIO Convention
mAY 2009
- UM Law alumnus D. Porpoise Evans, JD ’02 Receives Inaugural Community Advocacy Award
- UM Law student Irma Khoja speaks at 7th Annual Universal Muslim Association of America Conference
- UM Law Professor Ricardo Bascuas Discusses Material Witness Warrants in East Bay Express Article
- UM Law Professor Susan Haack does weeklong lecture tour in South America
- UM Law Visiting Instructor Carolina Guacci gives CLE trainings on Child Witness and Special Populations in Juvenile Delinquency Court
- In Memoriam: The School of Law mourns the passing of alumnus Daniel L. Bakst, JD ’65.
- UM Law Professor David Abraham awarded prestigious fellowship from The American Academy in Berlin
- Dade County Bar Association honors Miami-Dade Public Defender Carlos J. Martinez, JD ’90
- UM Law Professor Stephen K. Urice speaks at National Conferences on Museum Law
- UM Law Professor JoNel Newman and HOPE Director Marni Lennon speak at 2009 ABA/NLADA Equal Justice Conference
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UM Law Students nab Competitive Summer Internships and Clerkships
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The CYLC urges State Court to Honor Second-Parent Adoption by Same-Sex Couple
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Renting is Common in Today's Housing Market, according to UM Law adjunct professor Jesse Keenan
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Law School mourns the passing of Professor Emeritus George C. Onoprienko
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UM Law Professors Jennifer H. Zawid and Sarah A. Mourer spoke at the 2009 AALS Conference
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UM Law Professor Bernard Perlmutter discusses Psychotropic Meds at Florida Bar CLE Seminar in Tampa
- UM Law alumna Isabel C. Diaz, JD ’04, named a 2009 Hispanic Woman of Distinction
- UM Law visiting professor Michael R. Masinter says Swine Flu is not a Law Enforcement Problem, but a Public Health Problem
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3L Danny Hertzberg gives student address at Spring 2009 Law School Commencement
- UM Law Professor Markus Wagner discusses State Responsibility and the Use of Private Military Firms at a Cardozo School of Law symposium
- UM Law Professor Richard L. Williamson, Jr. to chair University of Miami Faculty Senate
- UM Law Professor David Abraham comments on effectiveness of Immigration Rallies in Sun-Sentinel article
april 2009
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UM Law students recognized for their contributions to the Lawyers for Literacy’s Legal Up! Program
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The University of Miami School of Law establishes the de la Cruz-Mentschikoff Endowed Chair
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri says President Obama's Court Picks Display a Considerable Degree of Cautiousness
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UM Law Professor Bruce Winick discusses Texas Insanity Defense Law
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UM Law Adjunct Professor Marcy LaHart involved with Parrot Lawsuit
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The Law School community mourns the passing of alumnus Mark L. Bregar
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UM Law alumnus Jeremy A. Spector, JD ’82, appointed Chair of ABA’s Committee on Tax Exempt Financing
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UM Law alumna Adele Stone, JD ’78, to receive 2009 Russell E. Carlisle Advocacy Award
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The Law School community mourns the passing of Esther C. Atkins
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UM Law’s Health & Elder Law Clinic profiled in The Miami Herald
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UM Law Hosts Event on Soia Mentschikoff's Vision of Legal Education
- UM Law Professor Susan Haack gives two April lectures
- UM Law’s BLSA Team Ranks Among Nation's Top Eight
- The Children & Youth Law Clinic and the Center for the Study of Human Rights filed comments with the Florida Supreme Court to limit shackling in Florida's Juvenile Courts
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U.S. District Judge Denny Chin to give Spring 2009 Commencement Address
- Five members of the Law School community tapped by Iron Arrow
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UM Law alumnus Max Holtzman, JD '95, appointed to top staff position at USDA
- UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick says pro se case appeals submitted by convicts representing themselves should be limited
- UM Law Professors join academics at the Critical Race Theory 20: Honoring Our Past, Charting Our Future Conference
March 2009
- President Shalala appoints Patricia D. White as Dean of the School of Law
- NBC6 news anchor Julia Yarbough and International Law Experts to gather at UM Law for Chinese Law Symposium
- The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund presents its 2009 Annual Spring Symposium, “That’s Entertainment, or Is It”
- UM Law Professor D. Marvin Jones pens chapter in Hurricane Katrina book and speaks at Pace University
- UM Law School wins Duberstein Bankruptcy Moot Court Competition
- The School of Law’s Center for Ethics & Public Service selects Judge Donald L. Graham for the 8th Annual William M. Hoeveler Award
- UM Law Professor Stephen K. Urice comments on agreement to curb looting in Chinese art and antiquities
- UM Law Professor Charlton Copeland explores U.S. Supreme Court's Ex parte Young decision at University of Toledo College of Law
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri comments on 'Giant Killer' attorney
- Novelist and UM Law alumnus Paul Levine will release his latest legal thriller, Illegal, on March 24
- It is with great sorrow that the University of Miami School of Law notes the death of Agnes C. Reid
- The Children & Youth Law Clinic takes case against Florida DCF to the Third District Court of Appeal
- The Charles C. Papy, Jr. Moot Court Board begins another record-breaking season
- UM Law alumnus and adjunct professor A. Jay Cristol published on Forbes.com
- UM Law alumnus Bill Galvano, JD ’92, of the Florida House of Representatives, profiled in the Herald Tribune
- UM Law Student Andrew Bagley awarded the German Chancellor Fellowship for Prospective Leaders.
- UM Law Professor David Abraham comments on Haiti's efforts to stall U.S. deportations.
- UM Law Professor Susan Haack speaks in Italy, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland over Spring Break.
- UM Law to host Symposium on Inter-American Human Rights Developments. Costa Rica’s former president, Rodrigo Carazo Odio, to speak.
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UM Law alumnus Kevin E. Probst named an Equal Justice Works Fellow
February 2009
- UM Law students participate in Clinton Global Initiative University meeting
- UM Law student Madeleine Mannello elected President of the Florida Bar’s Law Student Division
- UM Law Professor Bernard H. Oxman featured in New American article on Law of the Sea Treaty
- UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick leads Therapeutic Jurisprudence symposium at Florida Coastal School of Law
- UM Law hosts the 2009 Southeast Super Regionals on the 50th Anniversary of the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition
- UM Law Professor A. Michael Froomkin comments on Vamos a Cuba case
- UM Law hosts the 12th Annual Entertainment and Sports Law Symposium
- The Labor & Employment Law Student Association brings local attorneys to campus for first Annual Spring Symposium
- David Boies delivers keynote address at University of Miami Law Review Symposium
- UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick speaks at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri quoted in The National Law Journal on the challenges facing incoming law school deans
- UM Law alumna Abby Cynamon, JD ’89, LL.M. ’96, appointed to Miami-Dade Juvenile Court
January 2009
- UM Law Professor Bernard H. Oxman sits as judge ad hoc as the International Court of Justice delivers its 100th Judgment
- UM Law Professor Bruce J. Winick called upon as "Liberty City 7" third trial begins
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri quoted in Miami Herald about a proposal to change Broward County’s pretrial release program
- UM Law alumna Cindy G. Duque, JD ’02, named president of the Hispanic Bar Association of Central Florida
- UM Law mourns the passing of law alumnus, champion environmental lawyer, and lobbyist James D. Range
- HOPE volunteers featured in Miami Herald and Coral Gables Gazette for MLK, Jr. Day service projects
- Election Law experts gather at the University of Miami for the 2009 Miami Law Review symposium, “How Far Have We Come Since 2000”
- UM Law’s Frank and Georgie Angones honored by Miami-Dade Public Library Foundation for years of dedication
- Judge Barbara Levenson, JD ’81, publishes fiction novel, Fatal February
- The Psychology, Public Policy & Law Journal brings noted scholars to campus for Overcoming the Stigma of Disability symposium
- UM Law Professors Osamudia James and Mario L. Barnes participate in Race & Socio-Economic conference at Duke University Law School
- UM Law Professor Irwin P. Stotzky participates in The Chapman Dialogues
- UM Law Professor David Abraham participates in Princeton University's Annual ConLaw Schmooze
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri says expediting Supreme Court interviews will damage Governor Charlie Crist's credibility
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri comments on corruption scandals in Broward County government
- UM Law Professor A. Michael Froomkin discusses tax-free online shopping on Local 10 News
- UM Law Professor Susan Haack to speak in Oregon and at FIU
- Professor Frances R. Hill says political clout and the complexities of tax law will keep the feds out of college sports
- UM Law Professors Bernard Perlmutter and Bruce J. Winick participate in UM Mental Health and Juvenile Justice Conference
- UM Law alumnus Tom Rooney, JD ’99, is sworn into U.S. House of Representatives
- UM Law Professor Caroline Bradley and Visiting Professor Jan Paulsson join top CEOs and other Executives at UM Global Business Forum
- The University of Miami School of Law appoints Jan Paulsson to Distinguished Chair
- UM Law Professor Anthony V. Alfieri says Broward prosecutors exhibited poor form by listening to phone conversations
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