Posts by Ediberto Roman

Remembering Michael Olivas and Our Tasks Ahead  Over fifty of the country's leading scholars and law deans are gathering via Zoom this Thursday and Friday s to honor Professor Michael…

On July 21-22, 2022, the FIU College of Law and the Olivas Faculty Recruitment Initiative will be hosting the First Annual Michael Olivas Summer Writing Institute. In addition to honoring ...

As I write the following, I brace myself for the inevitable attacks from both Trump supporters and some lefties determined to attack anything that even remotely supports anything republican. Despite…

An FYI on an important symposium: The Lillian Goldman Law Library and Law Library Journal invite proposals​ for a symposium on the Legal Treatise to be held at Yale Law School on…

November 4-5, 2022 – Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Building on the success of the Equality Law Scholars’ Forum held at UC Berkeley Law in 2017, at UC Davis Law ...

First Annual Michael A. Olivas Writing Institute July 21-22, 2022    The First Annual Michael A. Olivas Writing Institute is organized in loving tribute to and honor of Professor Emeritus ...

Good People,  Michael Olivas' family asked if I could help them with a site they created addressing the impact he had on the academy. If you have a story to…

Let the fireworks begin....following the footsteps of my mentor....left me with a renewed vigor to pester and afflict the complacent: Below is the text of a recent scathing op-ed on ...

Tears are flowing as I write these words. Just a few moments ago I learned that the leader of  every Latina and Latino law professor in the this country is…

Never had the pleasure to meet this brilliant colleague, but by all accounts, he was  an amazing person and an incredible law professor. In a report today, the former brother-in-law…