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MATTHEW C. MIROW
FIU COLLEGE OF LAW
2061 RAFAEL DÍAZ-BALART HALL
MIAMI, FLORIDA 33199
[email protected]
EDUCATION
Leiden University
Cambridge University
Cornell University
Boston University
Ph.D. (law)
Ph.D. (law)
J.D.
B.A.
2003
1993
1986
1983
Professor of Law
MacCormick Visiting Fellow
Director, LL.M. Program
Associate Dean of International
& Graduate Studies
2008-date
2016
2012-2015
Fulbright Scholar
Interim Director
Associate Professor of Law
2009
2009
2002-2008
Membre associé (in residence, summer)
Director, joint summer program
Visiting Professor of Law (spring)
Co-teacher, joint summer program
Assistant Professor of Law
Golieb Fellow in Legal History
Visiting Professor of Law (summers)
Instructor to Assistant Professor of Law
Mentschikoff Tutorial Fellow
2008
2006
2006
2005
1999-2002
1998-1999
1995-1998
1994-1999
1992-1994
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
FIU College of Law
University of Edinburgh School of Law
FIU College of Law
Pontificia Universidad Católica
de Valparaíso, Chile
FIU College of Law Library
FIU College of Law
Centre Georges Chevrier (UMR 5605 –
Université de Bourgogne/CNRS)
Universidad de Sevilla/FIU
University of Miami
Universidad de Sevilla/FIU
South Texas College of Law
New York University
Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá)
Saint Louis University
University of Miami
2010-2015
OTHER STUDIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
FIU University Graduate School
FIU Latin American and Caribbean Center
Newberry Library/N.E.H. Summer Institute
Cambridge University
Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
Cambridge University
Florida Bar
Graduate faculty
Affiliated faculty
Fellow
Diploma in Spanish
Diploma in Spanish
Certificate in Spanish
2005-date
2002-date
1996
1992
1992
1991
1986
REPRESENTATIVE GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia
del Derecho (Buenos Aires)
FIU Office of the Provost/IIE/CIES
Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Global Center
American Society for Legal History
Florida Historical Society
Institute of International Education/Council
for International Exchange of
Scholars/Fulbright Scholarship
Board
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Arg.
Institute of International Education/Council
for International Exchange of
Scholars/Fulbright Scholarship
Board
City of Puebla, Mexico
J. William Fulbright Scholarship Board
University of Florida, Center for Latin
American Studies
FIU Provost’s Office
FIU College of Law
Fulbright Commission of Perú
American Society for Legal History
Centre Georges Chevrier (UMR 5605 –
Université de Bourgogne/CNRS)
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
Davidson College
Gerda Henkel Stiftung
FIU Provost’s Office/FIU Foundation
FIU College of Law
South Texas College of Law S.B.A.
South Texas College of Law
Saint Louis University Law Journal
Saint Louis University
N.E.H.
Lexis-Nexis
Saint Louis University
C.V.C.P. of the U.K.
Cambridge U. Overseas Trust
Gonville and Caius College
Frederic William Maitland Fund
Gonville and Caius College
E.S.R.C. of the U.K.
Miembro correspondiente
Fulbright campus representative
2014-date
2014-2015
Keynote speaker, Global Center
Co-director, Student Research Colloquium
Golden Quill Award (best article)
Fulbright U.S. scholar regional
peer review committee (Southern Cone)
2015
2014, 2015
2014
2011, 2012
Huésped de Honor
Fulbright U.S. scholar regional
peer review committee (Chile/Mexico)
2012
2010
Poblano y distinguido visitante
Fulbright scholar, Chile (traditional)
Travel research grant
2010
2009
2009
Top scholar (one of 22 selected)
Operational excellence award
Grant for presentation
Board of directors
Membre associé
2009
2009
2009
2009-2012
2007-2012
Grant for conference
Kelley lecturer
Grant for presentation
Research award
Summer research grant
Award for outstanding teaching
Summer research grant
Recognition award
Summer research grant
Summer stipend
Award for innovative teaching materials
Beaumont faculty development award
Overseas research studentship
Overseas research bursary
Overseas student bursary
Research grant
Travel grant
Grant for fees and expenses
2006-2008
2005
2003-2004
2003
2003, 2004
2002
2000, 2001
1997
1996, 1997
1996
1995
1995
1988-1991
1988-1991
1988-1991
1990
1990
1988
EDITING, CONSULTING, AND LEGAL PRACTICE
Colección "Persona" (Comares, Spain)
Iushistoria (Argentina)
Glossae (Spain)
Consejo asesor
Board of editors
Board of editors
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2014-date
2012-date
2012-date
Books of Law: The Formation and
Transmission of Western
Legal Tradition
Scientific committee
American Journal of Legal History
Advisory Board
Brill/Martinus Nijhoff
Series co-editor, History of Private Law
Revue de droit international
et de droit comparé
Principal collaborateur étranger
American Journal of Comparative Law
Board of editors
Law and History Review
Board of editors
Revista de Derecho Privado, Bogotá
Comité científico
International Relations
Referee
Anuario de Estudios Americanos (Seville) Referee
Comparative Legal History Review
Referee
University of New Mexico Press
Consultant
University of Edinburgh Press, legal history Consultant
Wolters Kluwer (Aspen), LLM studies
Consultant
Latin American and Caribbean Journal
of Legal Studies
Board of editors
Centre d’Histoire Judiciare (UMR 8025
Responsable du projet (with Dauchy
Université de Lille II/CNRS)
and Bryson)
American Journal of Legal History
Editor, book reviews
Oxford UP, Encyclopedia of Legal History Advisory editor, South America
Working Group on Property, Syracuse U. Affiliated Faculty
Hispanic American Historical Review
Referee
Wolters Kluwer, Property
Consultant
Aspen Publishers, International Law
Consultant
Law and History Review
Referee
South Texas College of Law Quarterly
Editorial board
Currents: International Trade Law Journal Faculty advisor
Saint Louis-Warsaw Transatlantic L.J.
Review editor
Lexis-Nexis
Consultant
American Immigration Lawyers Association Pro-bono part-time attorney
Reed Smith Shaw & McClay
Summer associate and Associate
Conrad Scherer & James
Summer associate
2011-date
2010-date
2007-date
2007-date
2006-date
2005-date
2004-date
2013
2013
2012, 2014
2011-2012
2011
2011
2007-2009
2006-2010
2002-2010
2004-2009
2004-2005
2009
2007
2007
2004
2001-2002
2000-2002
1997-1998
1996-1997
1993-1994
1985-1988
1984
COURSES AND SEMINARS TAUGHT
American Legal History, Anglo-American Wills and Testaments, Comparative Commercial Law (in
Spanish), Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, English Legal History, European Legal
History, International Law, Introduction to Common Law (in Spanish), Land Use, Latin American Law,
Property, and Wills and Trusts
COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT FIU
College Advisory Board and Committee Service: Academic Standards (2003-2006), Appointments (2002,
2006-2007, Co-chair, 2007-2008, Chair), Facilities (2002-2004), Graduate Programs (2005) International
and Comparative Law Programs (2004-2008); International Law Librarian (2002, Chair 2003), Lecture
Review (2005-2008, 2010), Library (2002-2006, 2010-2012, Chair, 2003-2006), Moot Court (2002),
Promotion and Tenure (2008-date); Strategic Planning (2009)
University Service: Banner Marshal (2003), Curriculum Committee (2004-2005), Graduate Council (20022004, 2012-2013, Vice-Chair, 2004-2005)
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ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Historical Association, American Society for Legal History (Program Committee, 2007; Board of
Directors, 2009-2011; Local Arrangements Committee, 2012-2013), Latin American Studies Association,
Selden Society
PROMOTION AND TENURE EVALUATIONS
University of Oregon
Ave Maria School of Law
University of South Carolina
University of Tennessee
Saint Thomas University (Minnesota)
2014
2013
2011
2011
2009
DISSERTATION COMMITTEES
Mauricio Novoa-Cain, Latin American Studies PhD, Cambridge Univ., awarded 2014 (external examiner)
Renzo Honores, History PhD, FIU, awarded 2007
Gregory Weimer, History PhD, FIU, 2011-present
Ricardo Pelegrin, History PhD, FIU, 2013-present
ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS ASSOCIATE DEAN (2010-2015)
Established FIU’s first LL.M. (for foreign lawyers, start date 2014, 17 students year 1, 24 students year 2)
Established J.D. with advanced standing for foreign lawyers
Recruited and admitted the College of Law’s first Visiting Researchers (approximately 20 during term)
Oversaw recruitment of the first Latin American Visiting Professor
Led the College to join the American Caribbean Law Initiative
Direct Seville Summer Study Abroad Program (prepared and monitored ABA site inspection in 2010)
Monitor, plan, and coordinate all aspects of international, comparative, and graduate studies
Negotiate and establish agreements with foreign law schools related to academic exchanges
Create proposed and actual budgets for various international activities
Maintain contact and coordinate activities with other university departments and units
Maintain contact and coordinate activities with institutions outside FIU
Inform faculty and students of international opportunities
Publicize international and comparative activities of the faculty
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PUBLICATIONS
Books:
2015. LATIN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONS: THE CONSTITUTION OF CÁDIZ AND ITS LEGACY IN
SPANISH AMERICA (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
2012. FLORIDA’S FIRST CONSTITUTION: THE CONSTITUTION OF CÁDIZ (Durham: Carolina Academic
Press).
2010. RATIO DECIDENDI: GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS, VOLUME 2: FOREIGN LAW
(Berlin: Duncker & Humblot) (edited with Bryson and Dauchy).
2006. GLOBAL ISSUES IN PROPERTY LAW: CASES AND MATERIALS (St. Paul: Thomson West) (with
Sprankling and Coletta).
2004. LATIN AMERICAN LAW: A HISTORY OF PRIVATE LAW AND INSTITUTIONS IN SPANISH AMERICA
(Austin: University of Texas Press).
Books in Studies in the History of Private Law Series (Leiden: Brill/Nijhoff)
(edited by C.H. (Remco) van Rhee, Dirk Heirbaut & M.C. Mirow):
2015. JOHN FINLAY, LEGAL PRACTICE IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCOTLAND.
2015. MARIKEN LENAERTS, NATIONAL SOCIALIST FAMILY LAW: THE INFLUENCE OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM
ON MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE LAW IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS.
2014. FREDRIC DELANO GRANT, JR., THE CHINESE CORNERSTONE OF MODERN BANKING: THE CANTON
GUARANTY SYSTEM AND THE ORIGENS OF BANK DEPOSIT INSURANCE 1780-1933.
2014. E.G.D. VAN DONGEN, CONTRIBUTORY NEGLIGENCE: A HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE STUDY.
2014. E. KOOPS & W.J. ZWALVE (EDS.), LAW & EQUITY: APPROACHES IN ROMAN LAW AND COMMON LAW.
2013. WIM DECOCK, THEOLOGIANS AND CONTRACT LAW: THE MORAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE IUS
COMMUNE (CA. 1500-1650).
2012. TILMANN J. RÖDER, FROM INDUSTRIAL TO LEGAL STANDARDIZATION, 1871-1914: TRANSNATIONAL
INSURANCE LAW AND THE GREAT SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE.
2011. JANWILLEM OOSTERHUIS, SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE IN GERMAN, FRENCH AND DUTCH LAW IN THE
NINETEENTH CENTURY: REMEDIES IN AN AGE OF FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND INDUSTRIALISATION.
2008. JAN HALLEBEEK & HARRY DONDORP (EDS.), CONTRACTS FOR A THIRD-PARTY BENEFICIARY:
A HISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE ACCOUNT.
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Articles, essays, book chapters, encyclopedia entries
2016. Juan Solórzano Pereira, in GREAT CHRISTIAN JURISTS IN SPANISH HISTORY (Rafael Domingo &
Javier Martínez-Torrón, eds., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) (forthcoming).
2015. Rerum Novarum: New Things and Recent Paradigms of Property Law, 47 U. PAC. L. REV. ___
(keynote address for symposium on an international law of property, forthcoming).
2015. Translating into Stone: The Monument to the Constitution of Cádiz in St. Augustine, Florida (18131814), in TRANSLATIONS IN TIMES OF DISRUPTION: A MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDY OF
CONSTITUTIONS, MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE, CONFLICT, RESISTANCE AND NEGOTIATIONS IN
TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS (David Hook & Graciela Iglesias Rogers, eds.).
2015. Bases y Puntos de Partida para la Organización Política de al República Argentina, Juan Bautista
Alberdi, in BOOKS OF LAW: THE FORMATION AND TRANSMISSION OF THE WESTERN LEGAL
TRADITION (Serge Dauchy, Georges Martyn, Anthony Musson and Heikki Pihlajamäki eds.,
Leiden: Brill/Martinus Nijhoff) (forthcoming).
2015. Causas civiles en la Florida Oriental, 1785-1821, in ESTUDIOS EN HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR DOCTOR
DON ABELARDO LEVAGGI (Ricardo Rabonvich-Berkman & Agustín Parise, eds., Buenos Aires:
Editorial de la UBA, forthcoming).
2015. Gonzalo Herrera y las Floridas frente a las Cortes de Cádiz, in ACTAS DEL XVIII CONGRESO DEL
INSTITUTO INTERNACIONAL DE HISTORIA DEL DERECHO INDIANO (forthcoming, Córdoba,
Argentina).
2015. Educación Legal en los Estados Unidos II: Educación de Postgrado, Educación Continuada, y
Consideraciones comparativas, 46 U. MIAMI INTER-AM. L. REV. 135-152 (with Cobas Cobiella).
2015. Testamentary Proceedings in Spanish East Florida, 1783-1821, in STUDIES IN HONOR OF RICHARD
H. HELMHOLZ 281-301 (Troy L. Harris, ed., Berkeley: The Robbins Collection).
2015. The Constitution of Cádiz in Cuba and Florida, in THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT IN
THE IBERIAN ATLANTIC WORLD: THE IMPACT OF THE CÁDIZ CONSTITUTION OF 1812, 194-211
(Scott Eastman & Natalia Sobrevilla Perea, eds. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press).
2015. Law in East Florida 1783-1821, 55 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 89-118.
2014. Codification and the Constitution of Cádiz, in 3 ESTUDIOS JURÍDICOS EN HOMENAJE AL PROFESOR
ALEJANDRO GUZMÁN BRITO 343-361 (Patricio-Ignacio Carvajal & Massimo Miglietta, eds.,
Trento, Italy: Edizioni dell’Orso) .
2014. Educación Legal en los Estados Unidos I: Facultades de Derecho y el Juris Doctor, 46 U. MIAMI
INTER-AM. L. REV. 1-38 (with Cobas Cobiella).
2014. The Age of Constitutions in the Americas, 32 LAW & HIST. REV. 229-235.
2014. Teaching Latin American Legal History, in TEACHING LEGAL HISTORY: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES
235-238 (Robert M Jarvis, ed., London: Wildy, Simmonds & Hill).
2013. Épocas en la historia del derecho en los EE.UU. in GLOBALIZACIÓN, DERECHO SUPRANACIONAL E
INTEGRACIÓN AMERICANA 29-32 (Juan Pablo Pampillo Baliño and Manuel Alexandro Munive
Páez, eds., México: Escuela Libre de Derecho/Porrúa).
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2013. Globalización y la educación legal en los EE.UU. in GLOBALIZACIÓN, DERECHO SUPRANACIONAL E
INTEGRACIÓN AMERICANA 575-581 (Juan Pablo Pampillo Banliño and Manuel Alexandro Munive
Páez, eds., México: Escuela Libre de Derecho/Porrúa).
2013. Pre-constitutional Law and Constitutions: Spanish Colonial Law and the Constitution of Cádiz,
12 WASH. U. GLOB. STUD. L. REV. 313-337.
2013. Orígenes de la función social de la propiedad en Chile, in LA FUNCIÓN SOCIAL DE LA PROPIEDAD
(Daniel Bonilla Maldonado, coord., Buenos Aires: Eudebe, Universidad de Buenos Aires) 229268. (Spanish translation of Origins of the Social Function of Property in Chile, 80 FORDHAM L.
REV. 1183-1217 (2011)).
2013. Spanje en Portugal van de 19de eeuw tot heden, in HOOGSTE GERECHTSHOVEN IN EUROPA: EEN
HISTORISCH PORTRET (A.A. Wijffels & C.H. van Rhee, red., Antwerpen: Maklu) 150-159 (with
Alvaro Pérez-Ragone) (Dutch version of Spain and Portugal after 1800 below).
2013. Spain and Portugal after 1800, in EUROPEAN SUPREME COURTS: A PORTRAIT THROUGH HISTORY
(A.A. Wijffels & C.H. van Rhee, eds, London: Third Millennium Publishing) 150-159.
2013. The Legality Principle and the Constitution of Cádiz, in FROM THE JUDGE’S ARBITRIUM TO THE
LEGALITY PRINCIPLE (Georges Martyn, Anthony Musson, and Heikki Pihlajamäki, eds., Berlin:
Duncker & Humblot) 189-205.
2013. Simón Bolívar y el Code Napoleón, 8 REVISTA DE SANTANDER 114-147. Spanish translation and
illustrated version of The Power of Codification in Latin America: Simón Bolívar and the Code
Napoléon, 8 TUL. J. INT’L & COMP. L. 83-116 (2000).
2012. The Constitution of Cádiz in Florida, 24 FLA. J. INT’L L. 271-330.
Florida Historical Society Golden Quill Award for Outstanding Article on Florida History 2014
2011. Origins of the Social Function of Property in Chile, 80 FORDHAM L. REV. 1183-1217.
2010. La tradición romanística en los Estados Unidos con una nota sobre el estado de la Florida, 22
REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS HISTORICO-JURÍDICOS 383-394.
2010. Visions of Cádiz: The Constitution of Cádiz in Historical and Constitutional Thought, in 53 STUDIES
IN LAW, POLITICS, AND SOCIETY: MAKING SENSE OF THE PAST 59-88 (Austin Sarat, ed., Bingley,
England: Emerald).
2010. Military Orders as Foreign Law in the Cuban Supreme Court 1899-1900, in RATIO DECIDENDI:
GUIDING PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS, VOLUME 2: FOREIGN LAW 217-228 (S. Dauchy,
W.H. Bryson, and M.C. Mirow, eds., Berlin: Duncker & Humblot).
2010. Conclusion: Foreign Law and the Birth of Comparative Law, in RATIO DECIDENDI: GUIDING
PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL DECISIONS, VOLUME 2: FOREIGN LAW 229-236 (S. Dauchy,
W.H. Bryson, and M.C. Mirow, eds., Berlin: Duncker & Humblot).
2010. The Social-Obligation Norm of Property: Duguit, Hayem, and Others, 22 FLA. J. INT’L L. 191-226.
2010. La contribución de Ignacio Vallarta al constitucionalismo mexicano: algunos aspectos
norteamericanos, in EL CONSTITUCIONALISMO MEXICANO: INFLUENCIAS CONTINENTALES Y
TRASATLÁNTICAS 47-61 (Patricia Galeana, coord., México: Senado de la República).
2009. Coke’s Advice on Executing Wills of Land, in RELATIONS BETWEEN THE IUS COMMUNE AND ENGLISH
LAW 239-245 (R.H. Helmholz and V. Piergiovanni, eds., Genoa: Rubbettino) .
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2009. So Now You’re a Law Professor: A Letter from the Dean, 2009 CARDOZO L. REV. DE NOVO 101-119
(with Frank T. Read).
2009. South and Central America: Overview, in 5 OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL
HISTORY 284-287 (Stanley N. Katz, ed., Oxford University Press).
2009. Wills: English Common Law, in 6 OXFORD INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LEGAL HISTORY 102105 (Stanley N. Katz, ed., Oxford University Press).
2008. Latin American Law, in NEW OXFORD COMPANION TO LAW 674-676 (Oxford University Press).
2008. Le Droit Comparé à Miami: Mario Díaz Cruz et The Comparative Juridical Review, 85 REVUE DE
DROIT INTERNATIONAL ET DE DROIT COMPARÉ 213-227. Solicited contribution for 100 th
anniversary of journal.
2008. The Future of the Economic Analysis of Law in Latin America: A Proposal for Model Codes,
82 CHI.-KENT L. REV. 293-325 (with del Granado).
2007. Marbury in Mexico: Judicial Review’s Precocious Southern Migration, 35 HASTINGS CONST. L.Q.
41-117.
2006. Case law in Mexico 1861-1919 – The work of Ignacio Luis Vallarta, in RATIO DECIDENDI: GUIDING
PRINCIPLES OF JUDICIAL DECISION (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot).
2006. Gloria’s Story and Guatemala’s Faith: Adulterous Concubinage, Law, and Religion, 24 LAW &
HIST. REV. 441-446.
2005. Andrés Bello, Sucesiones, y el Código Civil Frances de 1804, in SESQUICENTENARIO DEL CÓDIGO
CIVIL: PASADO, PRESENTE Y FUTURO DE LA CODIFICACIÓN (Universidad de Chile, 2005)
(Spanish adaptation and translation of Borrowing Private Law in Latin America: Andrés
Bello's Use of the Code Napoléon in Drafting the Chilean Civil Code, 61 LA. L. REV.
291-329 (2001). This work was solicited by the University of Chile for inclusion in a
commemorative volume for the 150th anniversary of Andrés Bello’s civil code for Chile.)
2005. The Code Napoléon, Buried but Ruling in Latin America, 33 DENV. J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 179-194.
2005. Le Code Napoleón régit-il toujours l’Amérique Latine d’outre-tombe? in LE CODE CIVIL, 18042004, ENTRE IUS COMMUNE ET DROIT PRIVÉ EUROPÉEN 179-204 (Bruxelles: Bruylant).
French adaptation and translation of The Code Napoléon, Buried but Ruling in
Latin America, 33 DENV. J. INT’L L. & POL’Y 179-194 (2005).
2005. El Code Napoléon y los Códigos de Bello y de Vélez Sarsfield, 33 REVISTA DE DERECHO PRIVADO
1-21 (Bogotá, 2005).
2005. Individual Experience in Legal Change: Exploring a Neglected Factor in Nineteenth-Century
Latin American Codification, 11 SW. J. L. & TRADE AM. 301-321. English adaptation and
translation of El Code Napoléon y los Códigos de Bello y de Vélez Sarsfield, 33 REVISTA DE
DERECHO PRIVADO 1-21 (Bogotá, 2005).
2004. International Law and Religion in Latin America: The Beagle Channel Dispute, 28 SUFFOLK
TRANSNAT’L L. REV. 1-29.
2004. El origen común de los códigos de dos continentes, in EL FUTURO DE LA CODIFICACIÓN EN
FRANCIA Y AMÉRICA LATINA 75-77 (Paris: Association Andrés Bello).
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2004. Globalizing Property: Incorporating Comparative and International Law into First-year
Property Classes, 54 J. LEGAL EDUC. 183-200.
2001. An Obituary of the Federal Estate Tax, 43 ARIZ. L. REV. 625-632 (with B.A. McGovern),
reprinted in 52 MONTHLY DIGEST OF TAX ARTICLES 61-63 (2002).
2001. Borrowing Private Law in Latin America: Andrés Bello's Use of the Code Napoléon in Drafting
the Chilean Civil Code, 61 LA. L. REV. 291-329.
2001. Latin American Legal History: Some Essential Spanish Terms, 12 BERKELEY LA RAZA L.J. 43-86.
2001. Kennewick Man, Identity, and the Failure of Forensic History, in HISTORY IN COURT:
HISTORICAL EXPERTISE AND METHODS IN A FORENSIC CONTEXT 240-266 (Ius Deco, Leiden).
2000. The Power of Codification in Latin America: Simón Bolívar and the Code Napoléon, 8 TUL. J.
INT’L & COMP. L. 83-116.
2000. Laws on Religion from the Theodosian and Justinianic Codes, in RELIGIONS OF LATE ANTIQUITY
IN PRACTICE 263-74 (Princeton University Press) (with K. Kelley).
1999. Bastardy and the Statute of Wills: Interpreting a Sixteenth-Century Statute with Cases and
Readings, 69 MISS. L.J. 345-371.
1999. The Ascent of the Readings: Some Evidence from Readings on Wills, in LEARNING THE LAW:
TEACHING AND THE TRANSMISSION OF ENGLISH LAW 1150-1900 (Hambledon Press).
1999. Legal History in the Law School Curriculum, in LEGAL EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
(ed. D.B. King, Rothman).
1998. Confronting Inadvertent Plagiarism, 6 PERSPECTIVES 61-64 (1998).
1997. Monks and Married Women: The Use of the Yearbooks in Defining Testamentary Capacity in
Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Readings on Wills, 65 LEGAL HIST. REV. 19-39.
1997. Codificación del Derecho Comercial en los Estados Unidos, in EVOLUCIÓN DEL DERECHO
COMERCIAL (Diké).
1997. Plagiarism and Textual Ownership in the Digital Source Environment, 14 PROTEUS: A JOURNAL
OF IDEAS 41-43 (with P.J. Shore).
1996. Roman Catholicism on Trial in Victorian England: The Libel Case of John Henry Newman and
Dr. Achilli, 36 CATH. LAW. 401-453 (1996). (Listed under both “history” and “libel”
in Gerome Leone, Worth Reading, NAT’L L.J., Jan. 27, 1997, at B12).
1996. Plagiarism: A Workshop for Law Students, <<http://lawschool.lexis.com/writing/plagiarism/
html/index.html>> (Lexis-Nexis Electronic Authors Press).
1993. Last Wills and Testaments in England 1500-1800, 60 RECUEILS DE LA SOCIÉTÉ JEAN BODIN POUR
L'HISTOIRE COMPARATIVE DES INSTITUTIONS 47-83.
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Book reviews and shorter works
2013. 1 COMP. LEGAL HIST. 129-133 (reviewing ALEJANDRO GUZMÁN-BRITO, CODIFICACIÓN DEL
DERECHO CIVIL E INTERPRETACIÓN DE LAS LEYES. LAS NORMAS SOBRE INTERPRETACIÓN DE LAS
LEYES EN LOS PRINCIPALES CÓDIGOS CIVILES EUROPEO-OCCIDENTALES Y AMERICANOS EMITIDO
HASTA FINALES DEL SIGLO XIX).
2010. Paper Echoes, Review of GEORGE ATHAN BILLIAS, AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM HEARD ROUND
THE WORLD. H-Law, H-Net Reviews. December, 2010.
http://www.hnet.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=31910
2008. 58 J. LEGAL EDUC. 147-155 (reviewing GREGORY S. ALEXANDER, THE GLOBAL DEBATE OVER
CONSTITUTIONAL PROPERTY: LESSONS FOR AMERICAN TAKINGS JURISPRUDENCE).
2006. GLOBAL LAW BOOKS (reviewing LAWRENCE M. FRIEDMAN & ROGELIO PÉREZ-PERDOMO,
LEGAL CULTURE IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: LATIN AMERICA AND LATIN EUROPE)
(NYU globallawbooks.org).
2005. 64 CAMBRIDGE L.J. 512-514 (reviewing MARGARET MCGLYNN, THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE
AND THE LEARNING OF THE INNS OF COURT).
2003. 14 J. WORLD HIST. 421-423 (reviewing MARCELLO CARMAGNANI, CONSTITUCIONALISMO Y
ORDEN LIBERAL: AMERICA LATINA, 1850-1920).
1998. 42 AM. J. LEGAL HIST. 414-415 (reviewing CHARLES R. CUTTER, THE LEGAL CULTURE
OF NORTHERN NEW SPAIN, 1700-1810).
1997. 65 LEGAL HIST. REV. 164-167 (reviewing H.J. HABAKKUK, MARRIAGE, DEBT, AND THE
ESTATES SYSTEM: ENGLISH LAND OWNERSHIP 1650-1950).
1997. 65 LEGAL HIST. REV. 211-212 (reviewing F.M.L. THOMPSON, LANDOWNERS, CAPITALISTS, AND
ENTREPRENEURS: ESSAYS FOR SIR JOHN HABAKKUK).
1997. Correction, FLA. B.J., Mar. 1997, at 6 (Letter to Editor on Palsgraf).
1996. Faculty editor for Spanish, Conference of the Supreme Courts of the Americas, 40 ST. LOUIS U.
L.J. 1135-1315, 1431-1549.
1995. 63 LEGAL HIST. REV. 206-207 (reviewing DANIEL COQUILLETTE, FRANCIS BACON).
1995. 13 LAW & HIST. REV. 202-204 (reviewing EILEEN SPRING, LAW, LAND, AND FAMILY:
ARISTOCRATIC INHERITANCE IN ENGLAND 1300-1800).
1994. 31 COMP. JURIDICAL REV. 125-132 (reviewing in English and Spanish DAVID J. WEBER,
THE SPANISH FRONTIER IN NORTH AMERICA).
1994. Readings on Wills in the Inns of Court 1552-1631, 54 DAI 3169-3170A (1994).
1987. Keeping Current: Probate, PROBATE AND PROPERTY, Mar.-Apr. 1987: 37-39 (with others).
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Dissertations
2003. Private Law, Lawyers, and Legal Institutions in Spanish America 1500-2000 (Leiden)
Promotor: Prof. dr. dr. A. A. Wijffels
1992. Readings on Wills in the Inns of Court 1552-1631 (Cambridge)
Supervisor: Prof. Sir John Baker
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Finnish Cultural Foundation, Fiskars, Finland
The influence of colonies on commerical legal practice
“Scots Traders and Spanish Law in Colonial Florida”
2016
Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Global Center
Keynote speaker, annual symposium
International Law of Property
2015
Inter-American Bar Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Plenary Panel: Comparative Law and the Development of Domestic Law
“Comparative Law and Expertise”
2014
Cambridge University, Cambridge, U.K.
Centre of Latin American Studies, Easter Term Research Seminar
“Law and Constitution in Spanish St. Augustine, 1783-1821”
2014
Oxford University, Oxford, U.K.
Roots of Restlessness? Translation in Times of Disruption
Translating Constitutions in the Age of Revolution
“Translating into Stone: The Monument to the Constitution of Cádiz in
St. Augustine Florida (1813-1814)”
2014
FIU College of Law
Lessons of Rwanda: Twenty Years after the Rwandan Genocide
Moderator
2014
American Society for Legal History, Miami, Florida
ASLH Pre-Conference Workshop on Latin American Legal History
Commentator on paper by Cristián Villalonga Torrijo’s paper on Chile
Closed-session, invitation only workshop
2013
Escuela Libre de Derecho, Mexico City, Mexico
Congreso Internacional de Globalización, Derecho Supranacional e
Integración Americana
“Globalización y la educación legal en los EE.UU.”
“Epocas en la historia del derecho en los EE.UU.”
2012
Centre d’Histoire Judiciare, UMR 8025 CNRS, Lille 2, France
Books of Law: The Formation and Transmission of the Western Legal Tradition
“United States and Latin America”
2012
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España-Florida Foundation, Coral Gables, Florida
Homenaje al Bicentenario de la Constitución de Cádiz
“La promulgación de la Constitución de Cádiz en San Agustín de la Florida”
2012
City of St. Augstine and Florida Coastal School of Law, Jacksonville
Reflections on the 200th Anniversary of Florida’s First Constitution:
Spain’s Constitution of Cádiz
“The Constitution of Cádiz in Florida”
2012
Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano, Córdoba, Argentina
“Gonzalo Herrera y las Floridas frente a las Cortes de Cádiz”
2012
Miami Consortium on Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Commentator on Rogelio Perez-Perdomo, “Legal Education and
Professional Legal Culture in Latin America and Beyond”
2012
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, Lima, Peru
International Seminar on the Constitution of Cádiz in the Atlantic World
“The Constitution of Cádiz in Florida”
2012
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Keynote Speaker, “Léon Duguit, his lectures in Buenos Aires, and the
Social Function of Property” (by videoconference)
2011
American Society for Legal History, Atlanta, GA
commentator, Law and Politics in Colonial Latin America
2011
SEALS, Hilton Head, SC
“Origins of the Social Function of Property in Chile”
2011
Fordham Law School, New York, NY
“Origins of the Social Function of Property in Chile”
2011
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt, Germany
“Visions of Cádiz”
2010
Universiteit Gent, Gent, Belgium
“The Legality Principle and the Constitution of Cádiz”
2010
Instituto Internacional de Historia del Derecho Indiano, Puebla, Mexico
“El derecho indiano y la Constitución de Cádiz”
2010
European Society for Comparative Legal History, Valencia, Spain
“Codification and the Constitution of Cádiz”
2010
NYU School of Law, New York, NY
Making Legal History: Conference in Honor of William Nelson (participant)
2010
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Comparative Constitutional Law Roundtable
2010
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Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Miami, Florida
Keynote Speaker, Southeastern Regional Round
2010
Cuban Studies Institute, Miami, Florida
“Mario Diaz Cruz and the Comparative Juridical Review”
2010
Fulbright Chile, Santiago, Chile
U.S. Visiting Scholar Representative, Returning Student Award Ceremony
2009
Universidad Católica de Temuco, Temuco, Chile
“Derecho gringo”
2009
Asociación de Magistrados IX Región, Temuco, Chile
“El origen y el uso de precedentes en el sistema anglo-americano”
2009
American Society for Legal History, Dallas, Texas
International Borrowings panel, Commentator
2009
Schola Serviani Iuris Romani, Universidad de Los Andes, Santiago, Chile
“La tradición romana en los EE.UU. con una nota sobre los tribunales del
estado de la Florida”
2009
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
“La codificación y la Constitución de Cádiz”
2009
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
“Gringo Law”
2009
Segundas Jornadas Chileno-Peruanos de Historia del Derecho, Valparaíso, Chile
“La codificación y la Constitución de Cádiz”
2009
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perú, Instituto Riva-Agüero,
Comisión Fulbright de Perú, Lima, Perú
“La codificación y la Constitución de Cádiz”
2009
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
“Las Influencias de la Constitución de Cádiz”
2009
Senado de la República, México
Seminaro Internacional: El constitucionalismo mexicano
“La contribución de Ignacio Vallarta al constitucionalismo mexicano:
algunos aspectos norteamericanos”
2009
American Society for Legal History, Ottawa
Chair of panel on racial determination and the law
2008
Instituto Technológico Autónimo de México, Mexico City, ALACDE
“The Latin American Trust”
2008
Miami/Henkel Conference on Ratio Decidendi, Miami
Conference organizer
2008
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American Society for Legal History, Tempe
“The Social-Function Norm of Constitutional Property in Latin America”
2007
Harvard Law School, Cambridge
Global Law in Comparative Perspective
“The Social-Function Norm of Constitutional Property in Latin America”
2007
Chicago-Kent Law Review Symposium, Chicago
“Law and Economic Development in Latin America
ALACDE Model Codes” (with J.J. Del Granado)
2007
University of Cádiz, Jerez, Spain
“U.S. legal education and the Bologna Agreement”
2006
University of Genoa/University of Chicago, Genoa, Italy
“Wills of Land, the Statute of Wills, and Butler and Baker’s Case”
2006
AALS Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.
Integrating Transnational Perspectives into the First Year Curriculum
Property panel
2006
Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina
Kelley Lecture
2005
American Society for Legal History, Cincinnati
Chair of panel on history of family law in Latin America
2005
Pacific McGeorge conference on Globalizing the Curriculum, Squaw Valley
Property group member
2005
University of California, Boalt Hall, ALACDE
“The Future of Law and Economics in Latin America: A Proposal
for ALACDE Model Codes of Civil and Commercial Law” (with Del Granado)
2005
Washington University Latin American Law Workshop, St. Louis
“Marbury in Mexico”
2005
Working Group on Property, Citizenship, and Social Entrepreneurism, Washington
“Globalizing Property”
2004
American Society for Legal History, Austin
“Case Decisions as Sources in Mexican Legal History”
2004
Richmond/Henkel Conference on Ratio Decidendi, Richmond
2004
“Case law as ratio decidendi in Latin America: Origins of the Mexican jurisprudencia”
Association Andrés Bello des Juristes Franco-Latino-Américains, Paris
“El origen común de los códigos de dos continentes”
2004
Center for Legal Responsibility, Houston
“On-line Mediation of Latin American Commercial Disputes”
2001
Southeastern Association of American Law Schools, Captiva, Florida
"Milestones in the Development of Latin American Private Law"
2000
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American Society for Legal History, Toronto
organized panel "Colonial and Early Republic Latin American Law"
presented paper "Borrowing Private Law in Nineteenth-Century Latin America"
1999
NYU School of Law, New York
Legal History Colloquium
“The Power of Codification in Latin America”
“Latin American Law”
1998, 1999
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, U.K.
Thirteenth British Legal History Conference: Learning the Law
“The Ascent of the Readings: Some Evidence from Readings on Wills”
1997
Colegio de Abogados de Medellín, Medellín, Colombia
XII Congreso Nacional de Derecho Comercial
“La Codificación del Derecho Comercial en los Estados Unidos”
1996
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Medellín, Colombia
Ciclo de Conferencias conmemorativo de los 60 años
de la Facultad de Derecho: “Formación del Derecho Común”
1996
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Santa Fé de Bogotá, Colombia
"Origenes del Sistema de Precedentes Judiciales"
1995
Central-States Law School Conference, St. Louis
“Legal History in the Law School Curriculum”
1995
University of Chicago, Chicago
Center for Comparative Legal History
Legal History Workshop: “Bastardy and the Statute of Wills”
1995
Jean Bodin Society, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
Congress on last wills and testaments: General Reporter for early modern England
1990
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