Jorge Luis Esquirol is a visiting professor of law at the Sturm College of Law for the fall 2011. He is professor of law at Florida International University. He was a founding faculty member and founding Director of International Programs at that school, from 2002 to 2009. His previous positions include associate professor at Northeastern University School of Law from 1997-2002; director of academic affairs at Harvard Law School’s Graduate Program from 1992-1997; associate at the law firm of Shearman & Sterling in New York City from 1990-1992; as well as law clerk to the Honorable Stanley Marcus in Federal District Court in Miami from 1989-1990.

He has been a visiting research professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies in spring 2008; a visiting professor at the University of Miami, School of Law in spring 2002; a resident scholar at the Université de Paris X, Nanterre, France in fall 2001; and a visiting researcher at the Constitutional Court of Colombia in fall 1998. Professor Esquirol has a J.D. (’89) and an S.J.D. (’01) from Harvard Law School, and a B.S.B.A. (’86) in Finance from Georgetown University.

Professor Esquirol is the author of The Failed Law of Latin America in the American Journal of Comparative Law (January 2008) and has published widely in various law journals. He writes in the areas of comparative law, legal theory, internationally-sponsored law reform, and law in Latin America. His has developed a series of works on legal theory and law reform in Latin America under the theme of “Fictions of Latin American Law.” He has publications in Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese.

His most recent work includes a forthcoming article in the American University International Law Review; a chapter in the Oxford Manual on the History of International Law, Oxford University Press; and a book in the University of Los Andes Press, in Colombia