Ediberto Roman is an American legal scholar working as a professor of law at the Florida International University College of Law.

Education

Roman graduated ''

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'' from

Lehman College Lehman College is a public college in the Bronx borough of New York City. Founded in 1931 as the Bronx campus of Hunter College, the school became an independent college within CUNY in September 1967. The college is named after Herbert H. Lehman ...

in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in business management. He received a

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from the

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in 1988.

Career

After practicing at several

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law firms from 1988 to 1995, he entered legal academia as a professor at the

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. He became a founding member of the faculty of the Florida International University College of Law in 2002. In August 2006, he was selected to chair the

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section on the Legal Academy. He also taught at the

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. The author of several

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articles, Roman also wrote ''The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of The United States' Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests''''The Other American Colonies: An International and Constitutional Law Examination of The United States' Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Island Conquests''

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. (

, 2005), which was nominated for the Law & Society Association's James Willard Hurst Prize for Best Work in Legal History. In addition to his recognition as a professor of law and writer, he is a student of martial arts and a member of the American Taekwondo Association.

References

External links

Biography page on Ediberto Roman
at the Florida International University College of Law. Florida International University College of Law faculty Lehman College alumni University of Wisconsin Law School alumni St. Thomas University (Florida) faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American legal scholars Lawyers from New York City {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub