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About M. C. Mirow

M.C. Mirow is a founding faculty member of the College of Law. He has been elected a MacCormick Fellow for 2016 at the University of Edinburgh School of Law. Last year, he received the Golden Quill Award from the Florida Historical Society for the best article published on Florida history, a study of colonial Florida’s constitutional history. He has previously served as a Fulbright U.S. Visiting Scholar in Chile, a Visiting Professor and Mentschikoff Fellow at the University of Miami, a Kelley Lecturer at Davidson College, and a Golieb Fellow at NYU. Mirow is on the Board of Editors of the Law and History Review and the Advisory Board of the American Journal of Legal History. He serves as a co-editor of the series Studies in the History of Private Law (Brill/Nijhoff). He is a member of the Florida bar and a Corresponding Member of the Instituto de Investigaciones de Historia del Derecho in Buenos Aires.

Positions

2008 - Present Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law
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2015 - 2016 MacCormick Visiting Fellow, University of Edinburgh School of Law
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2012 - 2015 Director, LL.M. Program, Associate Dean of International & Graduate Studies, Florida International University College of Law
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2009 - 2009 Fulbright Scholar, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
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2008 - 2009 Interim Director, FIU College of Law Library
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2008 - 2008 Membre associé (in residence, summer), Centre Georges Chevrier (UMR 5605 – Université de Bourgogne/CNRS)
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2006 - 2006 Director, joint summer program, Universidad de Sevilla/FIU
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2006 - 2006 Visiting Professor of Law (spring), University of Miami
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2005 - 2005 Co-teacher, joint summer program, Universidad de Sevilla/FIU
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1999 - 2002 Assistant Professor of Law, South Texas College of Law
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1994 - 1999 Instructor to Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
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1995 - 1998 Visiting Professor of Law (summers), Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá)
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1992 - 1994 Mentschikoff Tutorial Fellow, University of Miami
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

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Honors and Awards

  • Elected Miembro Correspondiente del Grupo de Trabajo de Historia del Derecho de la Academia Nacional de la Historia de la Republica Argentina. He was admitted to this honor on June 29, 2019, at the Academy in Buenos Aires.

Courses

  • Land Use, Latin American Law, Property, and Wills and Trusts
  • European Legal History, International Law, Introduction to Common Law (in Spanish)
  • Comparative Constitutional Law, Comparative Law, English Legal History
  • American Legal History, Anglo-American Wills and Testaments, Comparative Commercial Law (in Spanish)

Education

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2003 Ph.D., Law, Leiden University - Leiden Law School
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1993 Ph.D., Law, Cambridge University
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1986 J.D., Law, Cornell Law School
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1983 B.A., Bachelor, Boston University
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Contact Information

Florida International University
College of Law
11200 SW 8th Street RDB 2043
Miami, FL 33199

Ph: 305.348.8347

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