On April 11th, in honor of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, the Human Trafficking Academy was honored to host Florida State Representative Ross Spano in a talk attended by law students, faculty, staff, and community members. Professor Roza Pati, Director of the Human Trafficking Academy, welcomed Representative Ross Spano to St. Thomas Law and […]
St. Thomas Law Professor Roy Balleste has been asked to join a new team of internationally-renowned experts on space law who will be developing rules applicable to the military use of outer space. The project, MILAMOS (Manual on International Law Applicable to Military Uses of Outer Space), was inaugurated at McGill University in 2016, and […]
The Bernard F. Graham Scholarship Award in Finance and Accounting is a $10,000 prize awarded to a graduating senior with the highest GPA in the accounting or finance program at the Gus Machado School of Business. The Bernard F. Graham Scholastic Award in Finance and Accounting is provided by the Bernard F. Graham Charitable Foundation. […]
On Saturday, March 17th, the School of Law and the Immigration Law Students Association (ILSA) partnered with Catholic Legal Services and Americans for Immigrant Justice to provide free immigration legal screenings to the surrounding community. The clinic primarily offered an interview and legal consultation for the purpose of determining immigration relief eligibility. Student volunteers […]
The St. Thomas Law Intercultural Human Rights Law Review recently hosted its annual symposium. This year, the event focused on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Titled “Dreaming with DACA”, the event took the form of a panel discussion featuring immigration attorney and St. Thomas Law alum Saman Movassaghi Gonzalez, Esq.’03; Andrea Senteno, […]
Tarlika N. Navarro ’10 St. Thomas Law alum Tarlika N. Navarro is one of two recent South Florida judicial appointments made by Governor Rick Scott. She will serve in the Seventeenth Judicial Circuit for Broward County. Navarro, who graduated from St.Thomas Law (cum laude) in 2010, is currently in private practice. She is a managing […]
Professor Lauren Gilbert and eight St. Thomas Law students – Carolina Acosta-Fox, Mirtha Garcia-Alvarez, Tessa Juste, Diego Sanchez, Melany Cornejo, Catherine Perez, Vanessa Baez, Nathalia Lozano – recently spent two days at the Glades County Detention Center working on behalf of several Somali deportees whose flight back to Somalia got turned back in Senegal for reasons that […]
A year ago Adrian Escarate, ’11, was the designated “hitting partner” for Roger Federer, and a few weeks ago he was the designated guest of Rep. Carlos Curbelo at the President’s State of the Union address. The 29-year-old master’s candidate, in the U.S. since he was 3, is among the 800,000 DREAMers eager to continue […]
St. Thomas Law 2016 graduate, Eneami Bestman, recently had the honor of being recognized as a “South Florida Rising Star” by Attorney-at-Law Magazine. The magazine’s January 2018 “Top Lawyers” issue featured an in-depth interview with Ms. Bestman, who was nominated for the recognition by her legal peers. The conversation covered Eneami’s reason for pursuing a legal […]
While names like Nintendo, Jordan, and O.J. were making headlines in 1994, the groundwork for major headlines to come was being quietly laid at St. Thomas University. Twenty four years ago, on April 19, 1994, Msgr. Franklyn M. Casale began his first day of work as president of St. Thomas University. “St. Thomas became his […]