Geopolitical Summit to host Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Friedman

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One of the country’s leading thinkers, New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman, headlines this year’s Geopolitical Summit, “Rediscovering America?” The summit begins at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 13, in the Graham Center Ballrooms. The 2012 summit will focus on the crisis posed by the global economic recession. Friedman’s [...]

Justice Alito presides over FIU moot court finals

Judge Rosemary Barkett, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Judge Stanley Marcus presided over FIU's moot court final

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sat as chief justice for FIU’s 9th annual Moot Court Competition Even seasoned trial lawyers might find themselves intimidated arguing in front of a Supreme Court justice. At FIU’s 9th annual Moot Court Competition, four College of Law students rose to the challenge. U.S. [...]

What can FIU learn from the Penn State sex abuse case?

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President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique led the university community in a discussion about leadership, values and ethical issues raised by the Penn State scandal “This is a case of a distorted culture that has wrapped itself around a football team,” said President Emeritus Modesto A. Maidique at an FIU teach-in [...]

FIU College of Law hosts Citizenship Drive

Law students help those eligible for naturalization complete forms FIU’s College of Law will be hosting a Citizenship Drive to help individuals eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship complete their N-400 naturalization forms. Under the supervision of Clinical Professor Juan Gomez, law students in the Carlos A. Costa Immigration and [...]

College of Law grads achieve highest bar passage rate in Florida

FIU Law graduates have achieved the top bar passage rate in Florida, according to results from the July 2011 Bar Exam released by The Florida Board of Bar Examiners. “Thanks to the Worlds Ahead faculty led by Dean R. Alexander Acosta, the FIU College of Law has consistently graduated great lawyers [...]

FIU College of Law hosts Citizenship Drive

Law students help those eligible for naturalization complete forms WHAT: The Florida International University College of Law will be hosting a Citizenship Drive to help individuals who are eligible to apply for U.S. citizenship to complete their N-400 naturalization forms. Under the supervision of Clinical Professor Juan Gomez, law students [...]

What are you looking forward to in 2011?

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The FIU family had a lot to celebrate in 2010. College of Law faculty members ranked most diverse in the nation and the school was named a Top 10 Best Value; the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine launched the Green Family NeighborhoodHelp project, which pairs every medical student with a household [...]

FIU Law ranked Top 10 Best Value school

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Also ranked 3rd in state for scholarly impact by national Leiter Rankings MIAMI – Florida International University College of Law was ranked Top 10 Best Value school in the nation by The National Jurist. The Best Value rating is based on the following three criteria:  bar passage rate, average indebtedness [...]

FIU graduates ‘a different kind of lawyer’

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College of Law confers 152 degrees on its departing Class of 2010 Florida doesn’t need more lawyers. It needs a different kind of lawyer. With that message, Florida Supreme Court Justice Jorge Labarga applauded the 152 graduates of the FIU College Law, a new generation of lawyers as diverse as Miami [...]

FIU College of Law wins $22 million damage award for victims of Liberian torture

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MIAMI – Charles McArthur Emmanuel, also known as Chuckie Taylor, owes five Liberian victims more than $22 million in damages for torturing and persecuting them while he headed the infamous Liberian Anti-Terrorism Unit under his father’s dictatorial rule, according to a ruling issued today in federal court. Florida International University’s [...]