U.S. Rep. Diaz-Balart to address FIU College of Law graduates

05/22/2012 By 4 Comments
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Nicholas Icaro had a rough start. When he was 5, a car accident rendered his father quadriplegic. When he was 12, his mother suffered a work injury that kept her from ever holding down another job. Public assistance followed. On Friday, May 25 at 10 a.m., Icaro will be among [...]

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Faculty Profile: Tawia Ansah

03/30/2012 By
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This is the first article in a series highlighting some of the 124 faculty members who were hired during the 2011-2012 academic year Born in Ghana, raised in the United Kingdom, and educated in the United States and Canada, Tawia Ansah fits right into a College of Law whose faculty [...]

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Working through red tape: How FIU Law students will help small business

02/03/2012 By
Vanessa Pinto '09 listens as Bedilia Campbell, who represents mom-and-pop shops in Miami-Dade, expresses her hopes for the project. Photo: Ruben Rivero.

County Commission Chairman Joe A. Martinez is on a mission to clean up the entire code of ordinances – and he’s recruited students from the College of Law to help get the job done. Together with FIU President Mark B. Rosenberg and R. Alexander Acosta, the college’s dean, Martinez announced [...]

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Obama nominates FIU Adjunct Law Professor to Circuit Court of Appeals

08/04/2011 By

Calling him thoughtful and diligent, President Barack Obama named longtime FIU adjunct professor of law Adalberto José Jordán to the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Jordán has served as a District Judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami since 1999. [...]

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FIU graduates ‘a different kind of lawyer’

05/28/2010 By
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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 [...]

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FIU College of Law dean named among 100 most influential hispanics in U.S.

10/21/2009 By

MIAMI – R. Alexander Acosta, dean of the Florida International University College of Law, has been named one of the 100 most influential Hispanics in the country by Hispanic Business magazine. This is the second time Acosta, the former United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, is listed [...]

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Incoming law dean looking forward to getting to work

06/18/2009 By

R. Alexander Acosta, who stepped down from his position as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida to lead FIU’s College of Law, met with members of the FIU community during a reception held in  his honor June 9 at University Park’s Reagan House. Before making his debut, Acosta spoke with News@FIU representatives [...]

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