STU College of Law alumna Tiffany Escobar (`23) has been named President of the Colombian American Bar Association (COLBAR).

Tiffany is an Associate Attorney at Your Immigration Attorney, PLLC, specializing in U.S. immigration law, including employment-based and family-based immigration, asylum, and deportation defense.

She serves on the Florida Bar Journal/News Editorial Board, where she was appointed to a three-year term through 2027. In 2024, she was named an “Up-and-Comer Honoree” at the Hispanic Women of Distinction Awards and received a Special Congressional Recognition from Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. She is also an active member of the Miami-Dade Bar Association Young Lawyers Section, the Hispanic National Bar Association, and the International Entrepreneur Chamber of Commerce (U.S. Florida Chapter).

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Jennifer S. Ley-Soto, Senior Director for Career Development, participated in a webinar titled "Beyond the Law Firm: Alternate Careers After Law School," hosted by the Florida Bar Young Lawyer’s Division. The webinar featured Florida Bar Board of Governors Tiffany-Ashley Disney, Rafael Yaniz, Esq., and was moderated by Board of Governors Andrew D. Moody. The panelists discussed their career paths into JD Preferred roles and gave advice to law students and young lawyers across the state on non-traditional paths in the legal industry.

Pictured are Jennifer S. Ley-Soto; Tiffany-Ashley Disney, Board of Governors; Rafael Yaniz, Esq.; Andrew D. Moody, Board of Governors; Veronique Malebranche (`17), Board of Governors; Alexis Dion Deveaux, Board of Governors; and Arti Hirani, Florida Bar Young Lawyers Division President.

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Professor Daniel Epstein has received highest praise for his innovative and thoroughly researched article on the "Common Defence" Clause of the Constitution in the acclaimed Legal Theory Blog: Fascinating. Highly recommended.

The article argues that the ”common defence” clause of Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution serves as a constitutional foundation for justifying presidential discretion in foreign affairs and national security, relevant to, inter alia, legal debates about presidential tariff and foreign affairs-based economic regulatory authority, particularly during emergencies.

The Legal Theory Blog, founded and edited by UVA School of Law Professor Lawrence Solum, has been lauded as one of the most significant public contributions to legal education over the last 25 years. It is an eminent accomplishment among peers for an article to be noted by Professor Solum as recommended reading. Testifying to its recognition as a fount of scholarly excellence, STU College of Law’s faculty has achieved several notable entries in the last couple of years.

Most recently, two other articles have been noted by Professor Solum: Professor Michael Hasday’s article on “Accuracy and the Robot Judge” as "Recommended!" and Professor David Upham’s article on Prenatal Personhood, State Duties, and Congress’s Abortion Power Under the Fourteenth Amendment as "Highly recommended."

Read Professor Epstein`s article at: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5991794

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