ILEANA M. PORRAS 200 Ocean Lane Drive, PA3 Key Biscayne, FL 33149 +1 (305) 297 5302 E-Mail: [email protected] EDUCATION HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, J.D. cum laude, June 1989 Cambridge, MA UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, Institute of Criminology, Master of Philosophy, June 1983 Cambridge, UK UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, BA Honors in English Literature & Philosophy, June 1981 Leeds, UK TEACHING AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW: SENIOR LECTURER, August 2017 to present; ASSOCIATE DEAN OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS, August 2010 to May 2017 and CO-DIRECTOR ROBERT TRAURIG-GREENBERG TRAURIG GRADUATE PROGRAM IN REAL PROPERTY, August 2015 to May 2017. (Subjects taught: Property Law, Public International Law, International Law of Sustainable Development, Climate Change Law and Policy). As Associate Dean of Academic Affairs provided overall administrative leadership for academic matters relating to the JD program and support to the LLM programs. In charge of curriculum planning and in close collaboration with the faculty and the Dean, helped direct curricular development. As Co-Director of LLM Program in Real Estate Development directed effort to grow the program by building on existing strengths, developing new programing including the virtual learning component; building alumni relations and establishing Board of Advisors; and working in conjunction with the Business School and School of Architecture to enhance the University of Miami’s interdisciplinary footprint in the realm of real estate and development. UNIVERSITÉ PARIS V, FACULTÉ DE DROIT: VISITING PROFESSOR, 2006-2014 (yearly) - Intensive short course -- Introduction to Property Law -- in the context of the Diplôme d’Université and Master II “Common Law et Droit Comparé”) BROWN UNIVERSITY AND WATSON INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES, BROWN: VISITING PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND DIRECTOR, BROWN INTERNATIONAL ADVANCED RESEARCH INSTITUTES (BIARI) August 2008 to July 2010 (Subjects taught: International Law and Law of Sustainable Development.) BIARI, an innovative and interdisciplinary junior faculty development initiative for scholars in the global south, was funded primarily by Santander Universities, the higher education arm of Banco Santander. As the inaugural Director of BIARI, I was responsible for the overall design and budget management of the residential program comprised of four two-week long summer Institutes, which brought together 150 young scholars mostly from the global south, with about 70 leading scholars from around the world, to work on cutting edge issues. UNIVERSIDAD DE LA PAZ, COSTA RICA: VISITING PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF PEACE INSTITUTE, January 2009 (Subject taught: Law of Sustainable Development) ERIK CASTRÉN INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS, UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI: VISITING LECTURER, SUMMER SEMINAR ON INTERNATIONAL LAW, August 2008 (Subject taught: "Coping with Growth: Grounding the Concept of Sustainable Development in the City") SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR COLLEGE OF LAW, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: VISITING PROFESSOR, August 2006 to June 2008 (Subjects taught: Property Law, European Union Law and seminar on the Law of Sustainable Development.) BOSTON COLLEGE, LAW SCHOOL: VISITING PROFESSOR, July 2004 to June 2005 (Subjects taught: International Law, European Union Law and International Legal Theory.) REDWOODS MONASTERY, CISTERCIAN COMMUNITY, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: SISTER, December 1999 to December 2003. The Cistercians are a contemplative order within the Catholic tradition. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, COLLEGE OF LAW: PROFESSOR, July 1998 to 2001. [On leave during academic years 1999-2001] ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, July 1993 to June 1998. (Subjects taught: International Environmental Law, International Trade, Property Law and seminars on Theories of Property, International Legal Theory and Trade & Environment.) HARVARD LAW SCHOOL GRADUATE PROGRAM: SENIOR FELLOW, July 1992 to June 1993. Designed and taught a seminar on International Environmental Law for LLM and JD students. Worked with the LLM office and served as academic adviser for LLM students. FORD FOUNDATION FELLOW IN PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL: GRADUATE FELLOW, August 1991 to July 1992, under the direction of Prof. Abe Chayes. OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DELEGATION OF COSTA RICA TO THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCED) AND TO THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL COMMITTEE NEGOTIATIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE: DELEGATE AND LEGAL ADVISER, February 1992 to June 1993. Advised and briefed the Costa Rican Minister of Environment, Energy and Mines and other members of government. As official Costa Rican delegate to UNCED, the Fourth Meeting of the Preparatory Committee of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development and the Fifth Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Framework Convention on Climate Change, negotiated various international instruments including the Rio Declaration. 2 PILLSBURY MADISON & SUTRO, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: ASSOCIATE ATTORNEY (Environmental Group), 1989 to 1991. Worked on matters involving CERCLA, air quality, water quality, wetlands, disposal and treatment of solid and hazardous wastes, regulation of toxic substances (including pesticides), worker safety and land use planning. PUBLICATIONS: Case Commentary, 9 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. (MB) 136 (1991) Case Commentary, 9 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. (MB) 137 (1991) Case Commentary, 8 Cal. Envtl. L. Rep. (MB) 97 (1991) BAUDEL, SALES, VINCENT ET GEORGES, PARIS, FRANCE: LAW CLERK, summer 1988. Worked on a wide variety of issues including French labor law and European Community rules on product liability. LEGAL DEFENSE INSTITUTE, LIMA, PERU: LAW CLERK, summer 1987. Clyde Ferguson Fellow in Human Rights. Assisted Peruvian attorneys defending political prisoners and union workers. AMERICAN CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION (ACA), COLLEGE PARK, MARYLAND: INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANT, 1984-1986. Directed the formation of “Corrections International,” a non-governmental organization for correctional professionals. Served as ACA delegate to the Seventh United Nations Conference on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. UNITED NATIONS, CRIME PREVENTION AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE BRANCH, CENTER FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS, VIENNA, AUSTRIA: RESEARCH INTERN, January to August 1984. Assisted in the design and preparation of United Nations working papers for the Seventh United Nations Conference on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders. ONGOING RESEARCH PROJECTS Member - Working Group on Religion and International Law - Academy of Finland Project “Intellectual History of International Law: Empire and Religion.” Five-year research project led by Prof. Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland (launched October 2012). Member – Working Group on Locating Nature: Making and Unmaking International Law. Sponsored by the Institute for Global Law & Policy, Harvard Law School. Member – Law and Society Association International Research Collaborative (IRC) on Natural Resource Governance, Inequality and Human Rights. PUBLICATIONS The Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce in International Law: Idealizing Trade, chapter in Koskenniemi, Salmones-Garcia & Amoroso (eds) INTERNATIONAL LAW AND RELIGION, Oxford Univ. Press, (2017) Laudato Si,’ Pope Francis’ Call to Ecological Conversion: Responding to the Cry of the Earth 3 and the Poor - Towards an Integral Ecology, AJIL Unbound (November 2015) Binge Development in the Age of Fear: Scarcity, Consumption, Inequality and the Environmental Crisis in INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ITS DISCONTENTS: RESPONDING TO GLOBAL CRISES edited by Barbara Stark, Cambridge University Press (2015) Appropriating Nature: Commerce, Property and the Commodification of Nature in the Law of Nations, Leiden Journal of International Law 27(3) September 2014, 641-660 European Origins, the Doctrine of the Providential Function of Commerce and International Law’s Embrace of Economic Growth, Panel on Complex History of International Law, 107 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (2013) Liberal Cosmopolitanism or Cosmopolitan Liberalism? Notes from International Law, in PAROCHIALISM, COSMOPOLITANISM, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW edited by Mortimer Sellers, Cambridge University Press (2011) The City and International Law: In Pursuit of Sustainable Development, 36 Ford. Urban L. J. 537 (2009) Panama City Reflections: Growing the City in the Time of Sustainable Development, 4 Tenn. J.L. & Pol'y 357 (2009) Constructing International Law in the East Indian Seas: Property, Sovereignty, Commerce and War in Hugo Grotius’ ‘De Iure Praedae’—The Law of Prize and Booty, or “On How to Distinguish Merchants from Pirates, 31 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 741 (2006) Beyond 'Globalization': A Call for the Reinvention of International Environmental Law in the 21st Century. 100 Proceedings of the American Society of International Law (2006) Commentaire sur « L’impérialisme comme produit dérivé » d’Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela in IMPERIALISME ET DROIT INTERNATIONAL EN EUROPE ET AUX ETATS-UNIS, 287-298, E. Jouannet & H. Ruiz Fabri eds., Editions Société de législation comparée (Paris : France 2006) “Making it Our Own: Reflections on Gregory the Great’s Life and Miracles of St. Benedict—St. Benedict’s Final Miracle,” 39 Cistercian Studies Quarterly 3 (2004) Resisting the Irresistible: Difference Under Pressure in the Age of Fair Trade—The Limits of Harmonization. (Unpublished tenure piece) A LatCrit Sensibility Approaches