Category Archives: Featured Post

Turkish Delight: Operation Peace Spring And Its Ramifications For The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

George Bell —  “The parties to this Treaty reaffirm their faith in the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and their desire to live in peace with all peoples and all governments.” So reads the preamble to the North Atlantic Treaty, which established the largest military peacetime alliance in world history. A […]

UMLR’s Emily Wassermann Nominated as Inductee Speaker at the Florida Supreme Court

Please join us in congratulating UMLR Alumni Emily Wassermann JD’18 on being nominated as the inductee speaker at the October 2nd ceremony for new attorney’s at the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee. This honor is reserved for inductees who received some of the highest scores on the most recent Florida Bar Examination. Your UMLR family […]

The Cost of Business: Amazon’s Self-Exposure to Products Liability – Oberdorf v. Amazon

Henry Moreno —On July 3, 2019, The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit dealt a massive blow to Amazon’s liability armor. In Oberdorf v. Amazon, The Third Circuit reversed summary judgment and held Amazon was susceptible to products liability claims arising from injuries sustained by third-party vendor products. Postured under diversity jurisdiction, […]

UMLR’s Elizabeth Montano Announced as Winner of Yale’s Law Review Student Essay Competition

Please join us in congratulating UMLR Alumni Elizabeth Montano, JD’18 on becoming one of the two winners of the Yale Law Journal’s Student Essay Competition. Elizabeth served as the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Miami Law Review and has continued to inspire and motivate her entire UMLR family. We are so proud of you! More […]

Rent Control’s Time in the Spotlight

BEN KENNEDY — Affordable housing in the United States has been a hot-button issue as rents and home prices have been rising steadily in recent years. Median rent growth has dramatically outpaced wage growth making finding affordable housing difficult for many Americans. This issue has been particularly troublesome in large coastal cities such as San […]