On Course Saying ‘I Do’ after DOMA The seeds for LAW540: Marriage Equality: Practical Implications for a Post-DOMA Landscape were planted by third-year law student Sean Maye, who grew curious about the rapidly evolving implications of the 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which had enabled states to […]
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Fighting for Privacy in a Public Arena
Faculty Files Fighting for Privacy in a Public Arena Mary Anne Franks is the kind of person you want watching your back. As an associate professor of criminal and family law, she’s focused on how to help people protect their privacy and personal space in an increasingly invasive society. She does this not only with […]
Where Humans Fear to Tread
Tackling unprecedented dilemmas in the robotic age Robotic aircraft and drones, unmanned machines with names like Predator and Reaper—in our brave new world, high-tech robots are becoming increasingly prominent in war, law enforcement, and many aspects of civilian society. The legal, ethical, and policy questions raised by such advances were addressed during We Robot, an […]
Justices Sotomayor, Kennedy Hold Court at UM
On the book circuit to promote her new memoir, My Beloved World, United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited the University of Miami on February 1, giving an audience of mostly students a rare, in-depth look into her life—from what it was like growing up poor in a Bronx housing project and attending Princeton […]
