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Miguel Angel Adame
Professor of Law and Vice-Dean of the Universidad de Sevilla School of Law

Prof. Adame is a graduate of the Universidad de Sevilla, obtaining both his law degree (1989) and his doctorate in law (1994, cum laude). He is also a graduate of the LL.M. program (1997) of the University of Virginia School of Law and is admitted to practice law in the state of New York. He is the author of several books and articles in the fields of business law, environmental law and tax law. Prof. Adame is a regular consultant on projects of law reform in Russia, Mongolia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina.

Jorge L. Esquirol
Professor of Law and Director of International and Comparative Law Programs, Florida International University College of Law

Professor Esquirol (B.S.B.A. Georgetown University, J.D. Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Harvard Law School) was Director of Academic Affairs at the Harvard Law School Graduate Program from 1992-1997, and a professor of law at Northeastern University School of Law from 1997-2002. He has been a resident scholar at the Université de Paris X (Nanterre), France, a visiting professor at the University of Miami School of Law, and a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia. He clerked on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and was an associate attorney at the Wall Street firm of Shearman and Sterling. Professor Esquirol teaches in the areas of International and Comparative Law at FIU. He has taught commercial law, corporations and transnational business transactions. His research focus is law and culture in Latin America.

M.C. Mirow
Associate Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law

Professor Mirow holds a Ph.D. (law) from Leiden University, The Netherlands, a Ph.D. (law) from Cambridge University, England, and a J.D. from Cornell Law School. He has been a Golieb Fellow at New York University School of Law and has served as a General Reporter to the Société Jean Bodin. Holding Diplomas in Spanish from Cambridge University and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, he is an affiliated faculty member of the Latin American and Caribbean Center at FIU. He has also been a Fellow of the Newberry Library N.E.H. Summer Institute on Spanish and Hispanic-American Archival Sciences. He is the author of Latin American Law: A History of Private Law and Institutions in Spanish America (University of Texas Press, 2004).
Blanca Ruiz Rodríguez
Professor of Law of the Universidad de Sevilla School of Law, Department of Constitutional Law
Professor Ruiz Rodríguez is a graduate of the Universidad de Sevilla, obtaining her law degree in 1989. She is also a graduate of the European University Institute, Florence, Italy where she received her PhD in Law awarded with distinction. She is the author of several books and articles in the fields of constitutional law, human and basic rights. She has done research at London School of Economics, Yale Law School, J. W. G. Universitat Frankfurt, European University Institute and the Universidad of Sevilla. Professor Ruiz Rodríguez speaks Spanish, English, German, Italian and French.

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