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State-Based and Date-Driven: Foreign Enterprises, Social Credit, and Next Generation Law Along Chinese Silk Roads
No full textProfessor Larry Catá Backer, of the Penn State Law, presented his work in progress State-Based and Date-Driven: Foreign Enterprises, Social Credit, and Next Generation Law Along Chinese Silk Roads. This work examines the character and impact of social credit systems and data driven governance.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty-workshops/1050/thumbnail.jp
Ruling the Law: Legitimacy and Failure in Latin American Legal Systems
No full textThe North-South global divide is as much about perception and prejudice as it is about economic disparities. Latin America is no less ruled by hegemonic misrepresentations of its national legal systems. The European image of its laws mostly upholds legal legitimacy and international comity. By contrast, diagnoses of excessive legal formalism, an extraordinary gap between law and action, inappropriate European transplants, elite control, pervasive inefficiencies, and massive corruption call for wholesale law reform. Misrepresented to the level of becoming fictions, these ideas nevertheless have profound influence on US foreign policy, international agency programs, private disputes, and academic research. Jorge L. Esquirol identifies their materialization in global governance - mostly undermining Latin American states in legal geopolitics - and their deployment by private parties in transnational litigation and international arbitration. Bringing unrelenting legal realism to comparative law, this study explores new questions in international relations, focusing on the power dynamics among national legal systems. Challenges the image of permanent failure of Latin American law Demonstrates the role of legal ideology in comparative law Delineates a relatively new field of study in international relations, focusing on the power dynamics among national legal systemshttps://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1271/thumbnail.jp
FIU Law and University of Miami School of Law Co-Hosted First Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag
No full textFIU College of Law and University of Miami School of Law co-hosted the First Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag.
Scott Norberg (FIU College of Law) presented An Empirical Study of Law Graduate Debt at U.S. Law Schools, this study seeks to contribute to the work of addressing the challenges by closely examining the nature and scope of law graduate debt across U.S. law schools.
Caroline Mala Corbin (UM School of Law) presented her work Compelled Speech and the Pledge of Allegiance Revisited: The Unconstitutionality of Requiring Parental Permission, this work examines the compulsory flag salutes and parental rights.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty-workshops/1054/thumbnail.jp
Florida Wills, Trusts, and Estates Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition
No full textBuilding on the success of the prior editions of this highly-regarded casebook, this fourth edition continues its innovative approach of covering trusts as extensively as it does wills. The casebook’s coverage recognizes modern trends in wills, trusts, and estates planning. This edition of Florida Wills, Trusts, and Estates is the first casebook to include analysis of the recently enacted Florida statutes permitting the execution of wills, trusts, and other related documents electronically. Although Florida law is the focus, this casebook also discusses laws from other states and uniform acts approved by the Uniform Law Commission. The fourth edition also includes new uniform acts, such as the Uniform Electronic Wills Act (E-Wills Act).
To encourage students to view wills, trusts, and estates issues from the standpoint of both planners and litigators, the authors include numerous questions that require students to think about ways to draft or plan to avoid litigation, while accomplishing clients’ goals. While the casebook is intended for the basic wills and trusts course, it may also be used in advanced trusts and estates courses, as it includes chapters on estate planning, powers of appointment, advanced directives, and probate.
The rules governing wills and trusts continue to be state-law-driven. The authors’ philosophy is that students gain critical insights into complex issues by studying the laws of one jurisdiction as a whole. Florida law is a perfect platform for this endeavor because it has extensive probate and trust codes and significant case decisions addressing current and cutting-edge issues.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1275/thumbnail.jp
FIU Law and University of Miami School of Law Co-Hosted Second Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag
No full textFIU College of Law and University of Miami School of Law co-hosted the Second Workshop in a Zoom Summer Brown Bag.
Jose Gabilondo (FIU College of Law) presented Making Market Structure: A Post-Crisis View of Financial Intermediaries, presenting some draft chapters for a banking monograph, which one of the main goals is to offer a working (though somewhat tentative) model of how financial institutions, mechanisms, and flows of funds perform intermediation.
Elizabeth M. Iglesias (UM School of Law) presented her work Against Fascism: Toward a Latcritical Legal Genealogy, this article takes up the invitation of the LatCrit 2019 Biennial Conference organizers to resist the fascist turn in American politics.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty-workshops/1055/thumbnail.jp