It is our privilege to announce that the University of Miami Law Review has elected the Volume 72 Executive Board: Josh Mandel, Editor-in-Chief Karla Utset, Executive Editor Ashley Gomez-Rodon, Executive Editor Olivia Castillo, Executive Editor Luis M. Reyes, Senior Articles Editor Melissa Scott, Senior Notes & Comments Editor Elizabeth McIntosh, Senior Notes & Comments Editor Whitney Lohr, […]
The University of Miami Law Review would like to take a moment to celebrate the life of Jay Gayoso, who passed away peacefully on February 15, 2017, after a valiant battle with cancer. Jay attended the University of Miami School of Law and received a Juris Doctor degree cum laude in 1990. He served as […]
LAUREN SABELLA—Homeownership has long been a part of the idea of the “American Dream” and is associated with upward mobility and entering the middle class. However, after the housing bust and the financial crisis, that dream has become unattainable for millions of Americans. Since peaking in 2005, the national homeownership rate has dropped 5%, a […]
JUAN OLANO—“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.” – Ayn Rand While that may have been the case when it was written in the 1960s, the opposite seems true today, […]
IAN CAMPA—On February 7, 2017, Betsy DeVos was sworn in as the eleventh United States Secretary of Education following a historic confirmation vote in the Senate. Although it was perplexing to some that President Trump would nominate someone without any experience in public education to head the federal department charged with overseeing the nation’s educational […]
