ILEANA M. PORRAS 200 Ocean Lane Drive, PA3

Key Biscayne, FL 33149

+1 (305) 297 5302

E-Mail: iporras@miami.law.edu

EDUCATION

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D. cum laude, June 1989 Cambridge, MA

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Institute of Criminology,

Master of Philosophy, June 1983 Cambridge, UK

UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, BA Honors in English Literature

& Philosophy, June 1981 Leeds, UK

TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW:

SENIOR LECTURER, August 2017 to present; ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, August

2010 to May 2017 and CO-DIRECTOR ROBERT TRAURIG-GREENBERG TRAURIG GRADUATE

PROGRAM IN REAL PROPERTY, August 2015 to May 2017. (Subjects taught: Property Law, Public

International Law, International Law of Sustainable Development, Climate Change Law and Policy). As Associate Dean of Academic Affairs provided overall administrative leadership for

academic matters relating to the JD program and support to the LLM programs. In charge of

curriculum planning and in close collaboration with the faculty and the Dean, helped direct curricular development. As Co-Director of LLM Program in Real Estate Development directed

effort to grow the program by building on existing strengths, developing new programing

including the virtual learning component; building alumni relations and establishing Board of

Advisors; and working in conjunction with the Business School and School of Architecture to enhance the University of Miami’s interdisciplinary footprint in the realm of real estate and

development.

UNIVERSITÉ PARIS V, FACULTÉ DE DROIT:

VISITING PROFESSOR, 2006-2014 (yearly) - Intensive short course -- Introduction to Property Law

-- in the context of the Diplôme d’Université and Master II “Common Law et Droit Comparé”)

BROWN UNIVERSITY AND WATSON INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, BROWN:

VISITING PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIRECTOR, BROWN INTERNATIONAL

ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTES (BIARI) August 2008 to July 2010 (Subjects taught: International Law and Law of Sustainable Development.) BIARI, an innovative and

interdisciplinary junior faculty development initiative for scholars in the global south, was funded

primarily by Santander Universities, the higher education arm of Banco Santander. As the inaugural Director of BIARI, I was responsible for the overall design and budget management of

the residential program comprised of four two-week long summer Institutes, which brought

together 150 young scholars mostly from the global south, with about 70 leading scholars from around the world, to work on cutting edge issues.

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UNIVERSIDAD DE LA PAZ, COSTA RICA: VISITING PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF PEACE INSTITUTE, January 2009 (Subject taught: Law of

Sustainable Development)

ERIK CASTRÉN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS, UNIVERSITY OF

HELSINKI: VISITING LECTURER, SUMMER SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL LAW, August 2008 (Subject taught:

"Coping with Growth: Grounding the Concept of Sustainable Development in the City")

SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY:

VISITING PROFESSOR, August 2006 to June 2008 (Subjects taught: Property Law, European Union Law and seminar on the Law of Sustainable Development.)

BOSTON COLLEGE, LAW SCHOOL: VISITING PROFESSOR, July 2004 to June 2005 (Subjects taught: International Law, European

Union Law and International Legal Theory.)

REDWOODS MONASTERY, CISTERCIAN COMMUNITY, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA:

SISTER, December 1999 to December 2003. The Cistercians are a contemplative order within the

Catholic tradition.

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, COLLEGE OF LAW:

PROFESSOR, July 1998 to 2001. [On leave during academic years 1999-2001] ASSOCIATE

PROFESSOR, July 1993 to June 1998. (Subjects taught: International Environmental Law, International Trade, Property Law and seminars on Theories of Property, International Legal

Theory and Trade & Environment.)

HARVARD LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE PROGRAM:

SENIOR FELLOW, July 1992 to June 1993. Designed and taught a seminar on International

Environmental Law for LLM and JD students. Worked with the LLM office and served as

academic adviser for LLM students.

FORD FOUNDATION FELLOW IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL:

GRADUATE FELLOW, August 1991 to July 1992, under the direction of Prof. Abe Chayes.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

DELEGATION OF COSTA RICA TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND

DEVELOPMENT (UNCED) AND TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE NEGOTIATIONS ON

CLIMATE CHANGE:

DELEGATE AND LEGAL ADVISER, February 1992 to June 1993. Advised and briefed the Costa

Rican Minister of Environment, Energy and Mines and other members of government. As official

Costa Rican delegate to UNCED, the Fourth Meeting of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the Fifth Session of the

Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change,

negotiated various international instruments including the Rio Declaration.

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PILLSBURY MADISON & SUTRO, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY (Environmental Group), 1989 to 1991. Worked on matters involving

CERCLA, air quality, water quality, wetlands, disposal and treatment of solid and hazardous

wastes, regulation of toxic substances (including pesticides), worker safety and land use planning.

PUBLICATIONS: Case Commentary, 9 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. (MB) 136 (1991) Case Commentary, 9 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. (MB) 137 (1991)

Case Commentary, 8 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. (MB) 97 (1991)

BAUDEL, SALES, VINCENT ET GEORGES, PARIS, FRANCE:

LAW CLERK, summer 1988. Worked on a wide variety of issues including French labor law and

European Community rules on product liability.

LEGAL DEFENSE INSTITUTE, LIMA, PERU:

LAW CLERK, summer 1987. Clyde Ferguson Fellow in Human Rights. Assisted Peruvian

attorneys defending political prisoners and union workers.

AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION (ACA), COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND:

INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANT, 1984-1986. Directed the formation of “Corrections International,” a non-governmental organization for correctional professionals. Served as ACA delegate to the

Seventh United Nations Conference on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders.

UNITED NATIONS, CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE BRANCH, CENTER FOR SOCIAL

DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA:

RESEARCH INTERN, January to August 1984. Assisted in the design and preparation of United

Nations working papers for the Seventh United Nations Conference on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders.

ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS

Member - Working Group on Religion and International Law - Academy of Finland Project

“Intellectual History of International Law: Empire and Religion.” Five-year research project led by Prof.

Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland (launched October 2012).

Member – Working Group on Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law.

Sponsored by the Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School.

Member – Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative (IRC) on Natural

Resource Governance, Inequality and Human Rights.

PUBLICATIONS

The Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce in International Law: Idealizing Trade, chapter in Koskenniemi, Salmones-Garcia & Amoroso (eds) INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RELIGION,

Oxford Univ. Press, (2017)

Laudato Si,’ Pope Francis’ Call to Ecological Conversion: Responding to the Cry of the Earth

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and the Poor - Towards an Integral Ecology, AJIL Unbound (November 2015)

Binge Development in the Age of Fear: Scarcity, Consumption, Inequality and the

Environmental Crisis in INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS DISCONTENTS: RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CRISES

edited by Barbara Stark, Cambridge University Press (2015)

Appropriating Nature: Commerce, Property and the Commodification of Nature in the Law of

Nations, Leiden Journal of International Law 27(3) September 2014, 641-660

European Origins, the Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce and International

Law’s Embrace of Economic Growth, Panel on Complex History of International Law, 107 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (2013)

Liberal Cosmopolitanism or Cosmopolitan Liberalism? Notes from International Law, in

PAROCHIALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW edited by Mortimer Sellers, Cambridge University Press (2011)

The City and International Law: In Pursuit of Sustainable Development, 36 Ford. Urban L. J.

537 (2009)

Panama City Reflections: Growing the City in the Time of Sustainable Development, 4 Tenn.

J.L. & Pol'y 357 (2009) Constructing International Law in the East Indian Seas: Property, Sovereignty, Commerce and

War in Hugo Grotius’ ‘De Iure Praedae’—The Law of Prize and Booty, or “On How to Distinguish

Merchants from Pirates, 31 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 741 (2006)

Beyond 'Globalization': A Call for the Reinvention of International Environmental Law in the

21st Century. 100 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (2006)

Commentaire sur « L’impérialisme comme produit dérivé » d’Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela in

IMPERIALISME ET DROIT INTERNATIONAL EN EUROPE ET AUX ETATS-UNIS, 287-298, E. Jouannet & H.

Ruiz Fabri eds., Editions Société de législation comparée (Paris : France 2006)

“Making it Our Own: Reflections on Gregory the Great’s Life and Miracles of St. Benedict—St.

Benedict’s Final Miracle,” 39 Cistercian Studies Quarterly 3 (2004)

Resisting the Irresistible: Difference Under Pressure in the Age of Fair Trade—The Limits of

Harmonization. (Unpublished tenure piece)

A LatCrit Sensibility Approaches the International: Reflections on Environmental Rights as Third

Generation Solidarity Rights, 28 Miami Inter-American L. Rev. 413 (1997).

Book Review: Ozone Discourses. Science and Politics in Global Environmental Cooperation,

by Karen T. Litfin; and The Politics of Global Atmospheric Change, by Ian H. Rowlands. 90 AJIL 703

(1996)

“The Puzzling Relationship Between Trade and the Environment: NAFTA, Competitiveness and

Environmental Welfare Objectives,” 3 Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 65 (1995)

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“Trading Places: Greening World Trade or Trading In the Environment?” 88 Proceedings of the

American Society of International Law (1994)

“The Rio Declaration: A New Basis for International Cooperation,” 1 Review of European Community and International Environmental Law 3 (1992), Reprinted in GREENING INTERNATIONAL

LAW, P. Sands ed., Earthscan Publications, 1993. Reprinted in U.S. edition of GREENING

INTERNATIONAL LAW, P. Sands ed., New Press, October 1994.

“On Terrorism: Reflections on Violence and the Outlaw,” 1994 Utah L. Rev. 119.

“On Terrorism: Reflections on Violence and the Outlaw,” in AFTER IDENTITY: A READER IN

LAW AND CULTURE, D. Danielsen & K. Engle eds., Routledge, 1994.

Book Review, Cassandra: A Book and Four Essays, by Christa Wolf, 12 Harv. Women's L.J. 309 (1989).

CONFERENCES, LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS

Panelist, Francisco de Vitoria and Desiderius Erasmus: Love, Friendship and Exchange,

Congreso Internacional: Carlos V, Vitoria y Erasmo en Yuste, CEU Instituto Universitario de

Estudios Europeos, Universidad San Pablo, Spain, June 6-8, 2018.

Panelist, Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law, Law in Global

Political Economy: Heterodoxy Now, IGL&P, Harvard Law School, June 2-3, 2018.

Participant, Workshop on Cambridge Handbook on Environmental Justice and

Sustainable Development, Madison, Wisconsin, April 7, 2018.

Panelist, “Siting at the Crossroads: The City as Locus for Sustainable Development, the

SDGs and the New Urban Agenda or the Art of Precarious Living-With,” - Sustainable

Development Goals and International Law: Intersections of Environmental Law, Human Rights

and Environmental Justice, Wisconsin International Law Journal Annual Symposium, University

of Wisconsin Law School, April 6, 2018

Participant (invited), Transatlantic Values at a Crossroads: Contemporary Leadership

Challenges, Aspen Institute, Ronda, Spain, October 26-29, 2017.

Discussant, Critical Justice and Social Impact Advocacy Workshop, LatCrit XXI

Biennial Conference, Orlando, Florida, September 29-30.

Discussant, Re-conceptualizing Human Rights in Natural Resource Governance, Walls,

Borders and Bridges: Law and Society in an Interconnected World, International Meeting on

Law and Society, Mexico City 2017, June 20-23, 2017.

Panelist, Pope Francis’ Concern for People and the Planet, The Teachings of Pope

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Francis: Towards a Vision of Social Justice and Sustainable Capitalism? Seattle, February 3-4,

2017.

Participant (invited), The Colloquium: Transitions in Time, Space and Power, Institute

for Global Law and Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 7-9, 2016.

Panelist, International Seminar - At the Origins of Modernity: Vitoria and the New

World, Salamanca, Spain, July 2-3, 2015.

Chair and Discussant, Panel – Locating Nature: Destabilizing the Natural in International

Law, Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 1, 2015.

Speaker, Binge Development in the Age of Fear: Scarcity, Consumption, Inequality and the Environmental Crisis, Faculty Workshop, February 23, 2015.

Panelist, The Structures and Discourses of Transnational Legal Hierarchy, Conference: The

Geopolitics of Law in Latin America, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, November 21, 2014.

Participant, History and Histories of International Law, International Law, Religion and Empire, Erik Castrén Institute, University of Helsinki, October 27-28, 2014.

Speaker, Binge Development in the Age of Fear: Scarcity, Consumption, Inequality and the Environmental Crisis, Faculty Colloquium, University of Miami School of Law, October 22, 2014.

Panelist, Pluralities of Law: Where, What and How to Compare, Conference: Histories of

International Law: Comparisons, Projects and Conversations, convened by Tony Anghie and Benedict

Kingsbury, Salt Lake City, May 27-30, 2014.

Panelist, International Law and its Discontents & Panelist, Locating Nature: Making and

Unmaking International Law, 2013 Conference: New Directions in Global Thought: IGLP at Five,

Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June 3-4, 2013.

Panelist, International Law and Religion Working Group, Project on International Law, Religion

and Empire, Erik Castrén Institute, University of Helsinki, May 13-4, 2013.

Commentator, Panel - Language and Expediency, Conference on Language and Democracy,

University of Miami, March 22nd, 2013.

Panelist, The State of Latinos in the Legal Academy, Harvard Law School Celebration of Latino

Alumni – Latino Leadership: Our Time is Now, HLS, Cambridge, MA, September 29th, 2012.

Speaker, “Les négociations internationales et Rio plus 20,” in the context of speaker series “Les

nouveaux déterminants du développement durable,” Centre de Droit d’Affaire et Gestion, Université Paris

Descartes, December 7th, 2011.

Panelist, “Between Sustainable Development and Human Rights: Engaging the Environment,”

Human Rights Workshop of the Human Rights Thematic Group of the Human Development and Capability Association (HDCA), The Hague, Netherlands, September 5th, 2011.

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Panelist, Panel on “Reassessing the Use of Force in International Law?” at New Approaches to

International Law: Lessons from the European Experience, CEU-San Pablo, Madrid, Spain, December

11th, 2010.

Panelist, Third Sino-Franco Seminar on Environmental Law—Environmental Law a Procedural

Model, Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University and the Association pour L’Etude et la Recherche Juridique Franco-Chinoise, University of Finance and Economy, Shanghai, January 14-15th,

2010.

Panelist, History of international law roundtable, Evaluating Critical Approaches to International Law, CERDIN, Université Paris I, December 11– 12th, 2009.

Participant, Study Space III: Private and Public Lands in the Post-Colonial North American West, Denver, Colorado, November 29th-December 6th, 2008.

Panelist, The city and international law: In pursuit of sustainable development, “Inaugural Cooper-Walsh Colloquium on Cities and Climate Change”, Fordham Law School, New York

City, November 13th-14th, 2008.

Panelist, Panel on State and Religion: Comparative and Historical Perspectives, “Exploring the Intersections of Religion and Governance: Past, Present and Future,” Washington College of Law

American University, Washington D.C., October 9th-11th, 2008.

Panelist, Public Forum on the situation in Georgia, Watson Institute for International Studies,

Providence, Rhode Island, September 29th, 2008

Chair, Panel on Engaging with International Institutions, "After Empire: Global Governance

Today," Watson Institute for International Studies, Providence, Rhode Island, June 13-14, 2008.

Participant, Land Policies and Property Rights Annual Conference, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 2-3, 2008.

Presenter, Roundtable: Territoriality and Citizenship: Insights from the Periphery, Law, Culture and Humanities 11th Annual Conference—Imagining Justice and Injustice, Berkeley, California, March

28-29th, 2008.

Panelist, NYU Conference commemorating the work of Alberico Gentili, “A Just Empire? Rome's Legal Legacy and the Justification of War and Empire in International Law,” New York City,

March 13-15th, 2008.

Panelist, Symposium: Multiscalar Society? Legal Pluralism and Inequality, University of

Oregon, School of Law, Eugene, Oregon, February 15th, 2008.

Panelist, "Piracy on the High Seas," Section on Admiralty and Maritime Law panel at the AALS

Annual Meeting, New York City, January 5th, 2008.

Participant, Study Space I, Evaluations of Human Habitats in the 21st Century, Entering the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities of Panama’s Explosive Urban Growth, Panama City, Panama,

December 9th-16th, 2007.

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Chair, Panel on The Mixed Constitution, American Society of Legal History Annual Conference,

Tempe, AZ, October 26th, 2007.

Panelist, “European Identity: Cosmopolitanism and Religious Diversity,” International Processes: Trade and Identity panel, Lat Crit XII, Miami, FL, October 6th, 2007.

Panelist, “Managing Religions in Europe” International Workshop on International Law and Wars of Religion, Faculty of Law, Lund University, Sweden, September 19th-21st, 2007.

Panelist and Chair, “Religion in Europe,” Comparing globalizations today, Workshop on Global law in comparative perspective: Latin America and beyond, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, June

16th, 2007.

Panelist, “Liberal cosmopolitanism or cosmopolitan liberalism,” Cosmopolitanism and colonialism, TWAIL III (Third World Approaches to International Law), Albany Law School, Albany,

NY, April 19th, 2007.

Presenter, “Making a difficult case: Hugo Grotius as advocate--Justifying the violent seizure of a

Portuguese trading vessel by the Dutch East India Company in the early 17th century,” Faculty

Symposium, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, November 21st, 2006.

Panelist, “Cosmopolitan Liberalism?” ASIL Foundations of International Law: Liberalism,

Cosmopolitanism and the Foundations of International Law, ASIL Tillar House, Washington D.C. November 9, 2006.

Panelist, “Managing Religion(s) in the European Union: God, Culture and Civil Society in the Construction of Europe,” International Law After the Age of the Three Worlds : Comparative and

Historical Perspective , Washington College of Law, Washington D.C., September 15, 2006.

Panelist, “Beyond 'Globalization': A Call for the Reinvention of International Environmental Law in the 21st Century,” International Environmental Law at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 100th

Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Washington D.C., March 31st, 2006.

Panelist, Journée d’étude, (Workshop) « Impérialisme et droit international en Europe et en

Amérique » dans le cadre du programme commun entre l’UMR de droit comparé de Paris I (Sorbonne) et

le Centre d’études et de recherche en droit international de Paris I, CERDIN, Paris, France, November 22nd, 2005.

Panelist, "The allure and promise of commerce as an alternative to war in international law theory

(16th-18th centuries)," War & Trade: A Symposium of Brooklyn Law School, September 22nd-23rd, 2005.

Participant, Workshop on Piracy, Property, Punishment -Hugo Grotius and De Iure Praedae, - Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS), Wassenaar, The

Netherlands, June 9-11, 2005.

Panelist, Darfur: International Law Responses to a Crisis, Forum on Sudan, Northeastern

University Law School, Boston, April 20th, 2005.

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Presenter, The East India Company: Corporations, Sovereignty and Trade in the Early 17th

Century. Legal History Roundtable, Boston College Law School, April 14th, 2005.

Participant, Workshop: Putin’s Russia in International Affairs, Harvard Law School, March 7 th, 2005.

Convenor, Roundtable: International Law in the United States, Comparative Visions of Global Public Order, Harvard Law School, March 5th-6th, 2005.

Discussant, Roundtable: Critiques of law in Latin America, Thinking of Law in/and Latin America, Harvard Law School, March 4th, 2005.

Participant, Wisconsin-Harvard Workshop on International Law and Transnational Regulation,

University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 12-14, 2004.

Panelist, “Identity Formation in the EU: A Response to David Kennedy’s THE DARK SIDES OF

VIRTUE: REASSESSING INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIANISM," hosted by International Law Society, Boston University School of Law, October 26th, 2004.

Chair and Discussant, Roundtable: Law, Violence and Exceptionalism, New Worlds Legal Orders Conference: New Approaches Meet New Worlds of Law, Toronto, Canada, April 23-4, 2004.

Chair and Panelist, Torture, Terrorism and Other Unseemly Acts, American Society of

International Law 93rd Annual Meeting, On Violence, Money, Power and Culture: Reviewing the International Legacy, Washington D.C., March 24-7, 1999.

Moderator, Panel on Fading Borders, Workshop on Work, Workers and Law in the 21st Century, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, New Orleans, January 6-10, 1999.

Participant, New Approaches to International Law Dighton Writer’s Workshop, Dighton,

Massachusetts, November 20-22, 1998.

Panelist, Opening the Doors of the Legal Academy: A Recruitment Workshop for Minority Law

Professors, Washington D.C., October 29, 1998.

Panelist, Diversity: Critical Issues for the 21st Century, Presidential Installation Panel, University

of Utah, Salt Lake City, September 24, 1998.

Keynote Address, “Resisting the Irresistible: Difference Under Pressure in the Age of Fair

Trade—The Limits of Harmonization,” The American Society of International Law International

Economic Law Interest Group, Linkage as Phenomenon: An Interdisciplinary Approach, Washington D.C., December 5-7, 1997.

Participant, New Approaches to International Law Dighton Writer’s Workshop, Dighton, Massachusetts, November 21-28, 1997. (Session devoted to discussion of working paper “Difference

Under Pressure in the Age of Fair Trade: Finding the Limits of Harmonization”)

Moderator, Panel on Sustainable Solutions—From Restoration to Preservation, Utah College of

Law’s Stegner Symposium, “To Cherish and Renew” Restoring Western Ecosystems and Communities,

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Salt Lake City, April 17-19, 1997.

Participant, New Approaches to Third World International Legal Studies Conference, sponsored

by the Graduate Program of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 7-8, 1997.

Participant, West International Law Workshop, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley,

California, January 17-18, 1997.

Co-organizer and closing panelist, Utah Law Review Symposium on New Approaches to

Comparative Law, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 11-12, 1996.

Panelist, “Environmental Rights as Third Generation Human Rights,” Colloquium on

International Law, Human Rights and LatCrit Theory sponsored by the University of Miami, School of

Law, Miami, Florida, October 4, 1996.

Chair, Working Group on Trade and Environment in a Post-Colonial Era, New Approaches to

International Law Conference on International Law, Critique and Social Change, co-sponsored by the

European Law Research Center at Harvard law School and the Global Studies Research Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, June 14-16, 1996.

Participant, First Annual LatCrit Conference sponsored by the California Western School of Law, La Jolla, California, May 2-5, 1996.

Moderator, Panel on Time, People and the Great Basin, Utah College of Law's Stegner

Symposium "The Native Home of Hope", Community, Ecology and the West, Salt Lake City, Utah, April 12-13, 1996.

Participant, New Approaches to Third World Legal Studies, sponsored by the Graduate Program of Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 26, 1996.

Participant in personal capacity in Expert Group Meeting on Identification of Principles of

International Law for Sustainable Development, convened by the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, Geneva, Switzerland, September 26-28, 1995.

Guest Lecturer, “What are the Effective Legal Mechanisms Necessary to Enforce International Environmental Treaties at the Local Level?” Colloquium Series — “Trade, Treaties, Transnational

Advocacy Groups and Tropical Timber,” and for Comparative Law Seminar, University of Wisconsin-

Madison, May 8-9, 1995.

Panelist, “Imagining Transnational Spaces: The Globalizing Rhetorics of Environment and Trade

Law,” Narrative: An International Conference, hosted by the University of Utah, Department of English,

Park City, Utah, April 20-23, 1995.

Commentator on Panel on “The Culture of International Law” and Respondent on Panel on

“Transnational Regulatory Regimes,” Conference on The Market, The Sovereign and Culture, Co-sponsored by the Harvard European Law Research Center and the University of Connecticut, Hartford,

Connecticut, April 9-11, 1995.

Panelist, “Resurgent Boundaries: The Meeting of Free Trade and the Environment in NAFTA,”

Symposium on NAFTA at Age One: A Blueprint for Hemispheric Integration?, University of Connecticut

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School of Law, held at the University of Puerto Rico School of Law, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, March 16-17, 1995.

Panelist, “Resurgent Boundaries: The Meeting of Free Trade and the Environment in NAFTA,”

Symposium on International Environmental Laws and Agencies: The Next Generation, Indiana University, School of Law, Bloomington, March 8, 1995.

Panelist, “International Environmental Law Principles,” Symposium on Greening International Law, New York University School of Law, October 7, 1994.

Participant, “Latest Directions in Critical Approaches to Law — Moving to the International,” Workshop on Critical Approaches and Socio-Legal Studies: What Links, Oñati International Institute for

the Sociology of Law, Oñati, Spain, June 8–10, 1994.

Panelist, “Critical Methodologies or Making the Fact of Choice Apparent in Bureaucratic Forms: A Response to Gerald Frug.” Conference on New Approaches to Public Law and Constitutional History,

Athens, Greece, May 22–23, 1994.

Panelist, “Trading Places: Greening World Trade or Trading In the Environment?,” Access to

Transnational Justice: Responding to NAFTA, 88th Annual Meeting of the American Society of

International Law, Washington, D.C., April 9, 1994.

Speaker, “Integrating Theory and Practice,” remarks presented at the Workshop on

Interdisciplinary Approaches to International Economic Law, sponsored by the International Economic

Interest Group, American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., February 27, 1994.

Speaker, “Planning to Teach a Law School Class for the First Time,” talk delivered as part of the

Harvard Law School Graduate Program's Teaching and Legal Education Colloquium Series, November 1993.

Participant and moderator, Conference on New Approaches to International Law, Essex,

Massachusetts, October 9–12, 1993.

Participant, Conference on New Directions in European Community Law, held at the European

University Institute in Florence, Italy, July 5, 1993.

Participant, “Emerging Principles of International Environmental Law,” A Consultation on

Sustainable Development: The Challenge to International Law, St. George's House, Windsor Castle, England April 27–29, 1993.

Panelist, “On Terrorism: Reflections on Violence and the Outlaw,” Symposium on Violence and

the Outlaw: The Creation and Treatment of the Outlaw in Contemporary Legal Culture, held at University of Utah, College of Law, March 12, 1993.

Panelist, “A Community of Differences, Parts I and II,” lectures to incoming LLM students as part of the graduate program orientation process, Harvard Law School, August 25 and 27, 1992.

Guest Lecturer, Presentation to the Minister and Vice-Minister of Environment, Energy and Mines, Members of Parliament and officials of the Department of Foreign Affairs concerning UNCED

and the Rio Declaration negotiations, the Framework Convention on Climate Change and issues of

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particular significance to Costa Rica arising out of the upcoming Earth Summit in Brazil. San Jose, Costa Rica, May 28, 1992.

Panelist, “Environmental Issues and the North American Free Trade Agreement,” Free Trade,

Conference on Policy in the Nineties, Northeastern U. School of Law, Boston, Massachusetts, April 11, 1992.

Panelist, “The Right to Development in the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development,” Conference on Policy in the Nineties, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 12, 1992.

ACADEMIC HONORS & ACTIVITIES

Member, Academic Council, Institute for Global Law & Policy IGL&P, Harvard Law School

MacArthur Foundation 100&Change Judge (2016-17)

Associate, Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development, London, UK, August 1993 to 1999

Senior Fellow, Graduate Program, Harvard Law School, 1992-93

Ford Fellow in Public International Law, Harvard Law School, 1991-93

Editor, Harvard Environmental Law Review, 1987-88

Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, 1987-88

SERVICE AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

University of Miami University of Miami Institute of the Advanced Studies of the Americas Faculty Advisory Board 2016-present

University SACS Steering Committee 2011-present

Center for Latin American Studies Faculty Advisory Board 2011-2015

University of Miami School of Law

Faculty Advisor University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 2015-present Strategic Plan Committee 2014-2015

ABA Site Visit Working Group 2013-2014

Academic Standards Committee 2010-present

Curriculum Committee 2010-present Externship Committee 2013-present

Representative to the International Association of Law Schools 2010-present

Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University

College of Law, Study Committee on Hispanic Law Program, 2007-2008

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University of Utah Chair, University Search Committee for position of Chair of the International Studies

Board, December 1998

University Discrimination Complaints Hearing Panels Committee, 1994-1997

University Task Force on International Studies, 1994-1997 College of Law, Appointments Committee, 1994-1999

College of Law, LLM/Stegner Center Committee, 1993-1999

College of Law, Faculty Development Committee, 1995-1999 College of Law, Readmissions Committee, Summer 1995

Community Member, Judicial Council’s Task Force on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Legal

System, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1998-1999.

Professional Organizations Member, American Society of International Law

Member, European Society of International Law

Member, Hispanic National Bar Association AALS Minority Groups Mentoring Program

Personal Bar Membership: California 1989 (inactive)

Languages: Fluent Spanish & French

Citizenship: U.S. & Costa Rica