The 2016 edition of The Princeton Review – Best 173 Law Schools has been released and St. Thomas University School of Law has maintained its Top 10 national ranking for having the “Best Environment for Minority Students.” St. Thomas Law is the only Florida law school to be ranked in this category and now has […]
This story was originally published on the Archdiocese of Miami News page. http://www.miamiarch.org/CatholicDiocese.php?op=Article_Archdiocesan+university+explores+its+Havana+roots In some ways it’s hard to believe that half a century passed since students walked the grounds of Santo Tomas de Villanueva campus here or since a Mass was celebrated in the student chapel. Photographer: TOM TRACY | FC The damaged statue […]
This week, St. Thomas Law’s Lambda Law Society welcomed Attorney Elizabeth Schwartz to address students and faculty on the legal issues concerning the LGBT community. She began with an introduction on entering the public interest sphere and then honed in on some LGBT issues that many of the attendees noted that they were not aware of. […]
Student Government Association President Josh Rosner and Officer Ariel Listo met with congressional leaders during their trip to the American Student Government Association Conference in Washington, DC in October. The students had an opportunity to meet with STU Alumnus U.S. Rep. Mike Fitzpatrick, ‘85, as well as Congresswomen Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Frederica […]
Dr. Raúl Fernández-Calienes, of the STU School of Law, and Dr. Hagai Gringarten, of the STU School of Business, have co-authored a chapter entitled “Book Reviews at the Intersection of Humanities and Technology,” which has been published in the book Essays on Humanities and Technology (ed. by Arnold & Safit, 2015). The book is a […]
Oliver Ruiz III, a 2001 graduate of St. Thomas University’s School of Law, is the president-elect of the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (FBA). Oliver follows in the footsteps of Brett Barfield, and STU Law 1999 graduate and former president of the South Florida Chapter of the Federal Bar Association. Oliver is […]
On September 21, 2015, St. Thomas University School of Law hosted a delegation of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). The IACHR Chair, Rose-Marie Belle Antoine, launched a three-state investigation into the situation of racial discrimination and the issue of police violence against persons of African descent with a Community Forum at the University. […]
On the eve of celebrating its 70th anniversary since its founding in Havana, Cuba as the Universidad Catolica Santo Tomas de Villanueva, NPR recalls St. Thomas University’s early beginnings, using audio interviews with the Augustinian who served as university president in Cuba and then here. To read or listen to the remarkable story in the […]
St. Thomas Law hosted its Fourth Annual Florida Bar Induction Ceremony on Tuesday, September 29, for recent graduates who passed the July 2015 Florida Bar exam. Judge Peter Lopez presided over the ceremony and officially swore in a group of 45 recent graduates. After the formal ceremony, Judge Lopez signed each newly admitted lawyer’s sworn […]
In 2010, artist Emilio Hector Rodriguez created a group exhibition with abstract artists in the community who shared the same sensibility and reflected their interest in abstract work. The original group in this collaborative consisted of five artists, and now numbers nine. In 2013, the group became known as 7 Plus One Art Project. The […]