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Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination
No full textProfessor Tanya K. Hernández, of Fordham University School of Law, presented a working draft of her work Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination. This work examines what it means for civil rights law when and how mixed-race persons experience racial discrimination.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty-workshops/1046/thumbnail.jp
Léon Duguit
No full textFrench jurist Léon Duguit (1859-1928) was a theorist of the modern state and its relationship to law. His work on the nature of property and ownership, defining them as social functions, was an important step towards dismantling the conceptual wall between public and private law. He sought to apply sociological and scientific analysis to his study of law and the state. This chapter explores Duguit’s thought with particular reference to Roman Catholicism as a deeply embedded aspect of French culture. While little of his work expressly invokes Christianity, his turns towards solidarity and public service in the area of public law and his development of the social function of property in the area of private law reveal a level of concordance with Roman Catholic thought in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century France. Despite Duguit’s lack of engagement with the Church’s teachings in his scientific exploration of the state and law, his relationship to Catholicism remains difficult to determine. The Church and Christianity presented themselves to Duguit as social and political phenomena to be recognized, respected, observed, and theorized. As a good lay sociologist of law, Duguit considered the Church in his work and throughout his life.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1264/thumbnail.jp
Legal Professionals in Latin American in the Twenty - First Century
No full textIt is difficult to imagine a group with a greater influence than legal professionals on the organization and development of the modern Latin American state. By legal professionals I am not only referring to those licensed to practice law and represent clients, but also the judges, magistrates, law enforcement officials, and other individuals formally trained whose professional occupation is to liaise between the formal legal system and society at large. By this measure, law students should also be considered legal professionals, albeit their role and contribution is arguably different and more limited than the one performed by judges, lawyers, and others. Legal professionals have been vital to many activities associated with the functioning of the formal legal system, including lawmaking, interpreting laws, adjudicating disputes, offering legal advice, and obviously participating in the enforcement of judicial and administrative decisions. Legal professionals have also been at the heart of the political process and the functioning of the state, since colonial times (Pérez-Perdomo 2006). Lawyers are commonly found in many government agencies, and public offices, across the spectrum of the state’s bureaucracy throughout the region (Falçao 1984, 1988; Fix-Fierro and López Ayllón 2003). The contribution of Latin American legal professionals to society goes beyond the public sphere, as they have also been key players in the private sector (Gómez and Pérez-Perdomo 2017a). From the traditional roles of legal advisors, and in-house counsel, generally reserved to lawyers; legal professionals also act as corporate officers, political brokers, and lobbyists. Moreover, certain fields like the protection of the environment or human rights have also been primarily shaped by the work of legal professionals through their involvement in policymaking, advocacy, and activism (Gómez 2010; Rodríguez-Garavito 2010; Dezalay and Garth 2002).https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty_books/1269/thumbnail.jp
Genocide in Rwanda: 25 Years Later A Panel Discussion with Leading Experts
No full textApril 7, 1994 marked the beginning of about 100 days of horror in Rwanda. Over this time period, 800,000 members of the Tutsi ethnic group, along with some moderate Hutu sympathizers, were systematically identified, chased and slaughtered by an extremist Hutu regime, its militias and countless civilian collaborators. In the wake of this synchronized killing campaign, Rwandans began the journey to rebuild and re-imagine a unified identity. Join us for a panel discussion re-assessing the history of the genocide and Rwanda’s journey in the aftermath of these tragic events.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/fiu-law-events/1000/thumbnail.jp
The Free Speech Right Against Government Propaganda
No full textProfessor Caroline M. Corbin, of University of Miami School of Law, presented a working draft of her work The Free Speech Right Against Government Propaganda. This work advocates dropping the rule that the Free Speech Clause never applies to government speech.https://ecollections.law.fiu.edu/faculty-workshops/1044/thumbnail.jp
The New Normal Ten Years In: The Job Market for New Lawyers Today and What it Means for The Legal Academy Tomorrow
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