January 15, 2026
Professor Cathy Hwang
University of Virginia School of Law
"Contract Law and Civil Justice in Local Courts"

Miami Law provides an intensely engaged laboratory for discussion of faculty works-in-progress. We are proud to say that our Legal Theory Workshops feature a diverse range of distinguished scholars discussing their innovative legal scholarship over a range of topics. Our Internal Speaker Talks focus inward, on the germinating works of our own faculty colleagues. These and other elements of Miami Law’s scholarly engagements demonstrate a commitment to a rich and inclusive intellectual life.
To Attend: If you are interested in attending, please contact Alina Hernandez, Sr. Program Coordinator, at ahernandez@law.miami.edu.
Professor Cathy Hwang
University of Virginia School of Law
"Contract Law and Civil Justice in Local Courts"
Professor Andrew Tuch
Washington University School of Law
"Lend Me Your Counsel"
Professor Patrick O. Gudridge
University of Miami School of Law
Professor Nikita Aggarwal
University of Miami School of Law
Professor Caroline Bettinger-López
University of Miami School of Law
Professor Daniel Markovits
Yale Law School
Professor David Simon
Northeastern University School of Law
Professor Karen Eltis
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Professor Karen Engle
The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Professor Holly Brewer
University of Maryland
Department of History
Professor Caroline Bradley
University of Miami School of Law
Fall 2025
Professor Pablo Rueda-Saiz
University of Miami School of Law
"Normative Divergence in the Implementation of the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention in Latin America”
Professor Katharina Pistor
Columbia Law School
“The Political Economy of Liquidity Triangulation”
Professor India Thusi
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
“The Trafficking Paradox”
Professor José E. Alvarez
New York University Law School
Women’s Economic Empowerment at the UN
Professor Tamara Lave
University of Miami School of LawSpring 2025
Professor Charlton Copeland
University of Miami School of Law
"Reconstruction's Neglected Federalism"
Professor Alex Erwin
FIU College of Law
"Litigating Predator Management"
Professor Bruce Huber
Notre Dame Law School
"Replumbing the American Heartland: A Research Agenda"
Professor Pablo Rueda-Saiz
University of Miami School of Law
"The Regulation of Judicial Use of Artificial Intelligence in Colombia from the Perspective of Legal Field Theory"
Professor Donna Coker
University of Miami School of Law
“The Legacy of Ferguson: Building Worker, Community, and Student Power to Respond to the Carceral State”
Professor John Newman
University of Miami School of Law
"Out-of-Market Effects in Monopolization Cases"
Professor Elizabeth Iglesias
University of Miami School of Law
"Science and Sophistry: Toward A Platonic Understanding of the U.S. Constitution"
Professor Mitu Gulati
University of Virginia School of Law
“The Hazardous World of Contract: Landmines and Lawyers”
Professor Ingrid Brunk
Vanderbilt University Law School
"Self-determination for States: A Territorial Approach"
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law
"A Hundred Years from Weber: Science as Vocation and the Resurgence of National Populism"
Fall 2024
Professor Zanita Fenton
University of Miami School of Law
"Speaking of Race"
Professor Andres Sawicki
University of Miami School of Law
"The Law of Creativity?"
Dr. Or Cohen-Sasson
Miami Law's Law & Tech Fellow
"Leveraging AI for Legal Scholarship: Practical Steps to Enhance Your Research"
Professor Govind Persad
University of Denver Sturm College of Law
"The Law of Health Equity"
Professor Nakita Cuttino
Georgetown Law
"Presumption of Creditworthiness"
Professor Robert Rosen
University of Miami School of Law
"Law Jobs for Critical Thinkers and the Problem of Dialogue: Regulation and Compliance"
Professor Kara W. Swanson
Northeastern Law School
"Mind the Gaps: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property"
Professor Hiba Hafiz
Boston College Law School
"Towards a Progressive Labor Antitrust"Spring 2024
Professor Patrick O. Gudridge
University of Miami School of Law
"Argle Bargle"
Professor Zanita Fenton
University of Miami School of Law
"(Re)Birth of a Nation: Dobs as Dred Scott Redux”
Professor Hiroshi Motomura
UCLA School of Law
"Borders and Belonging: Can Immigration Policy Be Ethical?"
Professor Michelle McKinley
University of Oregon School of Law
"Financing Freedom: Self-Purchase and Re-enslavement in Seventeenth Century Andalucía"
Professor James M. Chen
Michigan State University College of Law
"Statutory Vision: Illuminating Law Within Conical Colorspace"
Professor Howard M. Wasserman
FIU College of Law
“303 Creative, Exclusive Private Enforcement, and Blue State Revenge”
Professor Leigh Goodmark
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
“How True Crime Harms Criminalized Survivors”
Professor Tom Ginsburg
The University of Chicago School of Law
"Enforceable Transitional Provisions in National Constitutions"
Professor Pablo Rueda-Saiz
University of Miami School of Law
"Beyond Environmental Conservation in the Laws of War"
Professor Elizabeth Iglesias
University of Miami School of Law
“Falling Short”, which forms part of Professor Iglesias's dissertation entitled “Platonic Intelligence and the U.S. Constitution"
Professor Brishen Rogers
Georgetown Law
“Lay Legal Praxis in Union Organizing—A Qualitative Study"
Fall 2023
Professor Francesco Parisi
University of Minnesota Law School
“The Information-Forcing Effects of Non-Disclosure Rules”
Professor Charquia Wright
Florida State University College of Law
"Reconstructing Ex Parte McCardle and Yerger"
Professor David Thronson
Michigan State University College of Law
"Always in Custody: Due Process and Accountability for Migrant Children in Federal Care"Spring 2023
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law
“Dominant Ideologies of Immigration and a Rational Approach Toward its Future Management”
Professor Alex Erwin
FIU College of Law
"Building Better Species: Assisted Evolution, Genetic Engineering, and the Endangered Species Act"
Professor Elizabeth Iglesias
University of Miami School of Law
“A Historical Ontology of America: The Framers' Debt to Plato”
Professor Martha Fineman
Emory Law
"The Vulnerability Theory"
Professor Frances R. Hill
University of Miami School of Law
"Unfinished Constitutional Business: Citizenship and Voting in a Federal Republic"
Professor Thalia González
UC Hastings Law
“The State of Restorative Justice in American Criminal Law”
Professor Kevin Ashley
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
“Toward Automatically Identifying Legally Relevant Factors”
Professor Samuel Moyn
Yale Law School
“To Save Democracy from Juristocracy: J.B. Thayer and the Tragic Origins of Constitutional Theory”
Professor Patrick O. Gudridge
University of Miami School of Law
"Scipio Africanus Jones and Oliver Wendell Holmes: Moore v. Dempsey Writ Large"
Professor Bennett Capers
Fordham University School of Law
"Listening to Defendants"
Fall 2022
Professor Mark Hall
Wake Forest Law
"Regulating Private Equity in Health Care"
Professor Tanya K. Hernández
Fordham University School of Law
"Book Talk: Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality"
Professor Monica Hakimi
Columbia Law School
"New Book Project: Conflict: How International Law Works"
Professor Kathryn Judge
Columbia Law School
"Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source"
Professor Gabriel Scheffler
University of Miami School of Law
"The Ghosts of the Affordable Care Act"
Professors A. Michael Froomkin and David Froomkin
University of Miami School of Law
"Fixing the Senate"
Professor Khaled A. Beydoun
Wayne State University
"Unveiling: The Law of Gendered Islamophobia"Spring 2022
Professor Bijal Shah
Arizona State University, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
"A Critical Case Against Administrative Functionalism"
Professor David Ciepley
Aarhus University
"Rule via Abstract Entities: The Corporatization of Church, State, Civil Society, and Business, and Its Implications for Governance and Equality"
Professor Norrinda Hayat
Rutgers Law School
"Housing the Decarcerated"
Professor Erin Carroll
Georgetown Law
"Obstruction of Journalism"
Professor Sarah Haan
Washington & Lee School of Law
"Corporate Governance and the Feminization of Capital"
Professor I. Glenn Cohen
Harvard Law School
"Borrowed Wombs: On Uterus Transplants and the Right to Experience Pregnancy"
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law
"The Role of Cities in the Capitalist Economy: An Overview"
Professor Tamara Rice Lave
University of Miami School of Law
"Blame the Victim: How Mistreatment by the State is Used to Legitimize Police Violence"
Professor Nicholson Price
University of Michigan Law
"Humans in the Loop"
Fall 2021
Professor Paul B. Stephan
University of Virginia School of Law
Book Talk: The Crisis in International Law - Systems Shocks, National Populism, and the Battle for the World Economy
Professor Pablo Rueda-Saiz
University of Miami School of Law
Territory as a Victim of Armed Conflict
Professor Andrew Elmore
University of Miami School of Law
Labor's New Localism
Professor Kunal Parker
University of Miami School of Law
The Turn to Process in American Legal Thought, 1870-1970Spring 2021
Professor Paul B. Stephan
University of Virginia School of Law
International Human Rights and Multinational Corporations: An FCPA Approach
Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Boston University School of Law
The Trauma of Injustice
Professor Ajay K. Mehrotra
Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; American Bar Foundation
Stanley S. Surrey: A Life in Taxes
Professor Kristin Nicole Henning
Georgetown Law
New Book Project: The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth
Professor Charlton Copeland
University of Miami School of Law
Victory by Another's Name: Gay Stigma, The Ryan White Care Act, and the Development of a National AIDS Policy
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law & Princeton University
The Rise of National Populism: Causes and Possible Solutions
Professors Alice M. Miller & Mindy Jane Roseman
Yale Law School
The New Now and the Imperative to Re-think in "Rethinking Human Rights and the Criminal Law"
Professor Maxine A. Burkett
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law
Evolution or Collapse? Climate Change and the International Legal Order
Professor Jamila Michener
Cornell University
Uncivil Democracy: Race, Power and Civil Legal Inequality
Professor Gina-Gail S. Fletcher
Duke University School of Law
Equality Metrics
Professor Aya Gruber
University of Colorado School of Law
Sex Exceptionalism in Criminal Law
Professor RonNell Andersen Jones
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Characterizations of the Press: An Empirical StudyWebinars
Miami Law faculty are presenting a series of free, online webinars on many of the critical socio-legal issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic to broad audiences of faculty members and scholars, law students and Miami Law alumni, the judiciary, other members of the legal community, and the general public.
The COVID-19 pandemic raises legal issues on every front and this webinar addressed some of the most important of those issues and gave attendees an opportunity to hear remarks from distinguished faculty experts - from both the Law School and the Department of Political Science at the University of Miami - on a variety of questions this pandemic raises for and about politics. The discussion ranged over constitutional, statutory and policy issues - such as the challenges of holding a general election in the context of a pandemic (including, for voters, how to vote to enhance election security and voter participation, and for candidates, how to campaign and raise funds); the impacts of disasters on presidential election outcomes; Congressional and state legislative responses to COVID-19; the politics of our healthcare financing system, especially Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act in pandemic conditions; and the politics of class and sovereign authority in the U.S. and elsewhere under pandemic conditions.
Expert Miami Law faculty, as well as a distinguished judge, provided an overview of various ways in which the virus and responses to it intersect with criminal law and process. Among topics explored: challenges of remote judicial operations; the impact of the pandemic on prison conditions; concerns about prisoner release programs; challenges presented by domestic violence responses; moral panic and the increase in gun sales; the extent of criminalization assisted by global surveillance; the privacy-reducing impact of technological innovations; and the types of financial crimes weaponized by the pandemic.
The first of a planned trio of webinars, the session offered an overview of some ways in which the virus and responses to it intersect with civil rights, human rights, public health, financial stability, technology, and privacy. It also provided a lens on the operation of courts and the judiciary dealing with vulnerable populations.
Fall 2020
Professor Elise C. Boddie
Rutgers Law School
New Book Presentation: Geographies of Justice: The Hidden Stories of Race, Law, and the Search for Ordinariness in Everyday Spaces
Professor Jack M. Balkin
Yale Law School
New Book Presentation: The Cycles of Constitutional Time
Professor Kevin Michael Woodson
University of Richmond School of Law
New Book Presentation: Beyond Bias: The Hidden Hindrances of Race in the Elite Workplace
Professor Charles C. Jalloh
Florida International University College of Law
New Book Presentation: The Legal Legacy of the Special Court for Sierra Leone
Professor Joy Milligan
University of California Berkeley Law
Remembering: The Constitution and Federally Funded Apartheid
Professor Jonathan B. Baker
American University Washington College of Law
Oligopoly Coordination, Economic Analysis, and the Prophylactic Role of Horizontal Merger Enforcement
Professor Franco Ferrari
New York University School of Law
Limitations to Party Autonomy in International Arbitration
Professor Alan O. Sykes
Stanford Law School
The Law and Economics of “Forced” Technology Transfer and Its Implications for Trade and Investment Policy (and the U.S.–China Trade War)
Dr. Joan Mahoney
University of Southampton Law School
New Book Presentation: MI5, the Cold War, and the Rule of Law
Professor Catherine Fisk
University of California Berkeley Law
Protection by Law, Repression by Law: Bringing Labor Back Into the Study of Law and Social Movement StudiesSpring 2020
Professor Deborah N. Archer
New York University School of Law
White Men’s Roads Through Black Men’s Homes: Advancing Racial Equity Through Highway Reconstruction
Professor David Harris
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
A City Divided: Race, Fear, and the Law in Police Confrontations
Distinguished Lecturer: Professor Claudio Grossman
American University Washington College of Law
Professor Nicole Huberfeld
Boston University School of Law
Is Medicare for All the Answer? Assessing the Health Reform Gestalt as the ACA Turns 10
Professor Ediberto Roman
Florida International University College of Law
No Trespassing America: Fear and Hate as Bedrocks of Contemporary National Security Discourse
Professor Jorge Contesse
Rutgers Law School
Ruling through Advice: The Use of Advisory Jurisdiction in International Human Rights Law
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law & Princeton University
Bifurcated Immigration and the End of Compassion
Professor David Abraham
University of Miami School of Law
Group Rights and Individual Minority Rights in Immigrant Societies, Then and Now
Professor Rhonda Magee
University of San Francisco School of Law
Mindfulness and Legal Education: Reflections on Practices for High Performance, Wellbeing and The Inner Work of Justice for All
Professor Susan Bandes
DePaul College of Law
Closure in the Criminal Courtroom: The Birth and Strange Career of an Emotion
Fall 2019
Professor Blake Hudson
University of Houston Law Center
The Long Road Home: Fighting Climate Change Via the Interstate Highway System
Professor Jenia Iontcheva Turner
SMU Dedman School of Law
Demystifying Plea Bargains
Professor Osamudia James
University of Miami School of Law
Surfacing Status: A Relational Theory of Harm in Racial Justice & LGBTQ Equality
Professor Ganesh Sitaraman
Vanderbilt Law School
Regulation and the Geography of Inequality
Professor Etienne Toussaint
UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
Dismantling the Master’s House: Toward A Justice-Based Theory Of Community Economic Development
Professor Martha Mahoney
University of Miami School of Law
Why Didn’t WE Leave? The Failure of Law Professors to Move on from a “Battered Woman Syndrome” Framework for Intimate Partner Violence
Professor Monica Bell
Yale Law School & Yale University
Anti-Segregation PolicingSpring 2019
Professor Jessica Silbey
Northeastern University School of Law
Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values in the Internet Age
Professor Howard Wasserman
Florida International University School of Law
Precedent, Particularized Injunctions, and Judicial Departmentalism: A Model of Constitutional Adjudication
Professor Deborah Weissman
UNC School of Law
In Pursuit of Economic Justice: The Political Economy of Domestic Violence Laws & Policies
Professor Miranda Spieler
The American University of Paris
Slave Voice and the Legal Archive: The Case of Freedom Suits before the Paris Admiralty Court
Professor Christopher Brummer
Georgetown Law
What Should Be Disclosed in an Initial Coin Offering?
Professor Mark Drumbl
Washington and Lee University School of Law
From Timbuktu to The Hague: Destruction of Cultural Property as a War Crime
Professor Ariela Gross
USC Gould School of Law
Claiming Freedom in the Age of Revolution 1763-1831
Spring 2018
Professor Brian Bix
University of Minnesota Law School
Family Agreements
Professor Patrick Gudridge
University of Miami School of Law
Charlottesville All Together Now
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law & Princeton University
Driving into the Flood: Traffic and Climate Change
Professor Michael Froomkin
University of Miami School of Law
When AIs Outperform Doctors: The Dangers of a Tort-induced Over-reliance on Machine Learning and What (Not) to Do About It
Professor Tonja Jacobi
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
The New Oral Argument: Justices as Advocates
Professor Pamela Foohey
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Life in the Sweatbox
Professor Susan Bandes
DePaul University College of Law
Share Your Grief But Not Your Anger: Victims and the Expression of Emotion in Criminal Justice
Professor Priscilla Ocen
Loyola Law School
Incapacitating Motherhood
Professor Mehrsa Baradaran
University of California Irvine Law
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap
Professor Maxine Burkett
University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
Behind the Veil: Climate Migration, Regime Shift, and a New Theory of Justice
Professor Scott Norberg
Florida International University College of Law
JD’s and Jobs: The Case for an ABA Accreditation Standard on Graduate Employment Outcomes
Professor Sam Kalen
University of Wyoming College of Law
Energy Follies: Energy Transition Decisions and Their Consequences for Modern Energy Policy
Fall 2017
Professor Teresa Verges
University of Miami School of Law
Cert. Talk: NLRB v. Murphy Oil USA, Inc.
Professor Sergio Campos
University of Miami School of Law
The Uncertain Path of Class Action LawSpring 2017
Professor Reid Weisbord
Rutgers Law School
Boilerplate and Default Rules in Wills Law: An Empirical Analysis
Professor Martha Jones
Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences
Birthright Citizens: A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
Professor Caroline Mala Corbin
University of Miami School of Law
Cert. Talk: Trinity Lutheran v. Pauley
Professor Kevin Stack
Vanderbilt University Law School
Internal Administrative Law
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law & Princeton University
Miami: The Last Twenty-Five Years
Professor Anthony Jack
Harvard Graduate School of Education
(No) Harm in Asking: Class, Acquired Cultural Capital, and Academic Engagement at an Elite University
Professor Lili Levi
University of Miami School of Law
Cert. Talk: Star Athletica v. Varsity Brands
Professor David Luban
Georgetown Law
Arendt After Jerusalem: The Moral and Legal Philosophy
Professor Alexander Kedar
University of Haifa Faculty of Law
Contested Geographies: The Bedouins of the Negev in International and Comparative Law Perspectives
Professor Jose Gabilando
Florida International University College of Law
Miami-FIU Exchange: Supporting Cuba's Sanctions Claim Against the United States: The Case for Netting
Professor Eric Talley
Columbia Law School
Contracting Out of the Fiduciary Duty of Loyalty: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Opportunity Waivers
Professor W. Michael Reisman
Yale Law School
Legal Decisions and Their Implementation in International Law
Professor Hannibal Travis
Florida International University College of Law
Miami-FIU Exchange: Counter-IP Conspiracies: Patent Alienability and the Sherman Antitrust Act
Professor Noah Messing
Yale Law School
Legal Writing, Civil Procedure, and Persuasion: Rethinking First Principles in the First Semester
Professor Muneer Ahmad
Yale Law School
Teach-In on the Executive Order "Muslim Ban"
Fall 2016
Professor Donald Jones
University of Miami School of Law
Cert. Talk: Pena-Rodriguez v. Colorado
Professor Rebecca Sharpless
University of Miami School of Law
Cert. Talk: Jennings v. Rodriguez
Professor Martha Mahoney
University of Miami School of Law
Why Don’t WE Leave? Confrontation, Confusion, and the Failure of Legal Scholars to Move On from a "Syndrome" Framework for Domestic Violence
Professor Alicia Plerhoples
Georgetown Law
Nonprofit Displacement and the Pursuit of Charity Through Public Benefit Corporations
Professor Patrick Gudridge
University of Miami School of Law
Dissent Within Orthodoxy
Professor David Skeel
University of Pennsylvania Law School
The Empty Idea of "Equality of Creditors"
Professor Andrew Levin
Columbia University Department of Psychiatry
Identification and Management of Vicarious Trauma
Professor Steven Dean
Brooklyn Law School
Demolition Blues: Text, Intent and Taxation in the United States, the United Kingdom and France
Professor Sergio Campos
University of Miami School of Law
Cert. Talk: Microsoft v. Baker
Professor Andrew Ferguson
UDC David A. Clark School of Law
The "Smart" Fourth Amendment
Professor Seth Davis
Berkeley Law
Minor Courts, Major Questions
Professor Caroline Bradley
University of Miami School of Law
Financial Stability, Regulation and Politics: Risks, Uncertainties and the International Financial System
Professor Andrea Freeman
University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
A Rehabilitative Reparations Approach to Racial Discrimination Against Credit Card Consumers
Professor Kaaryn Gustafson
UCI Law
Reconceptualizing Debt through a Critical LensSpring 2016
Internal Speaker Roundtable
Professors David Abraham, Leigh Osofsky & Madeleine Plasencia
University of Miami School of Law
Professor Alejandro Portes
University of Miami School of Law & Princeton University
Growing Up in America and Spain: A Comparative Analysis of the Immigrant Second Generation (Longitudinal Study)
Rob Smith
The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Constitutional Liberty and the Progression of Punishment
Professor Jim Rossi
Vanderbilt Law School
The Brave New Path of Energy Federalism
Professor Nick Petersen
University of Miami College of Arts and Sciences
Cumulative Racial Disadvantage in Death Penalty Institutions: A "Life Course" Analysis of Pre-Trial Punishment Disparities in Homicide Cases
Professor John C.P. Goldberg
Harvard Law School
Rights, Wrongs and Recourse: A Theory of Tort Law
Professor Einer Elhauge
Harvard Law School
Contrived Threats v. Uncontrived Warnings: A General Solution To The Puzzles of Contractual Duress, Unconstitutional Conditions, and Blackmail
Professor Donna Coker
University of Miami School of Law
Restorative Justice and Sexual Assault on Campus
Professor Christopher Slobogin
Vanderbilt Law School
Policing As Administration
Professor Barry Friedman
NYU Law
Unwarranted: Fixing Policing in America
Professor Carol Steiker
Harvard Law School
Regulating the Death Penalty to Death
Professor Felix Mormann
Texas A&M University School of Law
A Tale of Three Markets: Comparing the Renewable Energy Experiences of California, Texas, Germany
Please contact Alina Hernandez, Sr. Program Coordinator, at ahernandez@law.miami.edu.