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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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
