Faculty & Intellectual Life

The University of Miami School of Law is committed to excellence in scholarship and teaching. Our faculty are the backbone of our vibrant, supportive academic community, and our excellent student-faculty ratio fosters a culture of collaboration, creativity, serious scholarship, and real-world engagement.

Directory: Meet Our Faculty

Miami Law students have access to leading scholars and outstanding teachers from the United States and around the world—providing opportunities to work closely with experts both inside and outside the classroom. Learn more about them and their scholarship in the news here.

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Faculty Scholarship

Our professors have unique backgrounds and interests and bring both distinguished scholarship and depth of experience to their roles as dedicated educators and mentors. You can listen to faculty scholars speak to the news of the day in The Explainer Podcast. In addition, the University of Miami School of Law's scholarship is referenced around the world as illustrated in this real-time readership map:

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Faculty Speaker Series

Miami Law provides an intensely engaged laboratory for discussion of faculty works-in-progress and the legal and policy issues underpinning their work in its Legal Theory Workshop Series and its Internal Speaker Series.
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SSRN E-Library

The University of Miami School of Law Legal Studies journal contains abstracts and papers from this institution focused on this area of scholarly research.
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Scholarship Repository

Miami Law's Institutional Repository provides access to and preserves the intellectual output of our community.
Browse the Repository

Academic Conferences, Symposia & Panel Presentations

Academic Conferences

Miami Law's faculty and students sponsor a large number of conferences each year on topics ranging from robot law to estate planning to sports law.

Miami Law Conferences

Symposia

Our symposia draw hundreds of practitioners, academics, and students every year.

Miami Law Symposia

Online Journals and Law Reviews

The innovative online journal JOTWELL: The Journal of Things We Like (Lots) has been transforming legal academia since 2008 and specializes in short reviews of the latest and most pathbreaking legal scholarship. Its founder and editor-in-chief is Miami Law's Professor A. Michael Froomkin.

The journal, started, housed, and supported by the University of Miami School of Law, is organized by more than 20 legal specialties, including contracts, constitutional law, international and comparative law, and corporate law. Professors George Georgiev and Caroline Bradley co-edit the corporate law section and Professor Patrick Gudridge co-edits the constitutional law section.

Miami Law faculty serve as advisors to five professional journals devoted to specific substantive areas of the law and to various approaches to examining legal developments.

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