Professor Román is a nationally-acclaimed scholar and an award-winning educator with broad teaching interests and an extensive scholarship portfolio. From 1995 to 2002, he was an associate professor and then professor of law at St. Thomas University School of Law. In 2003, he joined the Florida International University College of Law as a founding faculty member, then serving as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2005 to 2007. Before entering academia, he specialized in securities and antitrust litigation at several Wall Street law firms. His teaching experience includes contracts, torts, corporations, comparative corporate law, products liability, agency and partnership, antitrust, citizenship studies, law and accounting, race and the law, remedies, and street law. In addition to winning “Professor of the Year” twice, he has written dozens of articles, essays, and book chapters. In addition to teaching over a dozen different law courses, he is also the first law professor to receive an Excellence in Scholarship grant at Barry University-St. Thomas University, and the first recipient of the FIU College of Law Hispanic Law Student Association’s Enma Tarafa Excellence Award. More recently, he was recognized by the FIU President and Provost on two separate occasions as a university leading scholar.