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After graduating from law school, Alberto Bernabe clerked for Justice Federico Hernandez-Denton of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico. He later entered private practice, specializing in personal injury, mass disaster litigation, and general media law practice.
Before joining the faculty at The John Marshall Law School in 1992, Professor Bernabe was a teaching fellow at Temple University, where he taught Mass Media Law and collaborated in teaching Torts, Products Liability, and Legal Ethics. He also teaches frequently as a visiting professor at the University of Puerto Rico Law School.
Professor Bernabe teaches Torts and Professional Responsibility and has published articles on many different topics, including the rules of professional conduct, journalism ethics, the Socratic method of teaching, the concept of the marketplace of ideas, tort reform, Puerto Rican tort law, and the relationship between the media and the judicial system. Visit Professor Bernabe's blogs on Torts and Professional Responsibility here and here.
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Recent Publications
Colón Santos v.
Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples y el aparente conflicto entre las
doctrinas de la solidaridad y la inmunidad [Colón
Santos v. Cooperativa de Seguros Múltiples and the apparent conflict
between joint and several liability and immunity], 79 Rev. Jur. UPR ___ (2009)
Coming Soon to a Law Practice Near You: The New (and
Improved?) Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, 39 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 691
(2008)
Comentarios sobre la profesión y el profesionalismo [A
Comment on the Profession and the Concept of Professionalism], 69 Rev. Jur.
Col. Abog. P.R. 359 (2008)
En defensa de la solidaridad: Comentarios sobre la
propuesta eliminación de la responsabilidad solidaria en la relación
extracontractual [In defense of Solidarity: A Comment on the Proposed Elimination
of Joint and Several Liability in Torts Cases], with José Julián Álvarez
González, 78 Rev. Jur. UPR 745 (2008)
Comentarios a una propuesta anunciada: El derecho civil
extracontractual y el Borrador de la Comisión de Revisión del Código Civil [Tort
Law and the Draft Proposal of the Civil Code Revision Commission], 40 Rev. Jur.
Univ. Inter. P.R. 529 (2006)
Castigo por conducta antisocial extracontractual en
Puerto Rico: Es hora de adoptar el concepto de los daños punitivos [Punishment
for Anti-social Conduct in Puerto Rico: It is time to adopt the Concept of
Punitive Damages], 40 Rev. Jur. Univ. Inter. P.R. 225 (2006)
Legal Education in the United States: the more things
change, the more they stay the same, 3 Barco de Papel 15 (2005)
Revisión del Código Civil y la responsabilidad civil
extracontractual (Parte II): Una propuesta alternativa al informe de la
Comisión de Revisión [Civil Code Reform and Tort Law (Part II): An Alternative
Proposal to the Report of the Civil Code Revision Commission], 74 Rev. Jur. UPR
1 (2005)
La revisión del Código Civil y la responsabilidad civil
extracontractual: ¿Contradicción en los términos? [Civil Code Reform and Tort
Law: A Contradiction in Terms?], 73 Rev. Jur. UPR 981 (2004)
¡Hasta la vista, baby!: Es hora de decir adiós a la ley
de libelo y calumnia de 1902 ["Hasta La Vista, Baby": It is time to
say goodbye to the libel and slander law of 1902], 73 Rev. Jur. UPR 59 (2004)
Los Procedimientos de Divorcio y el Derecho de Acceso a
los Tribunales: La Constitucionalidad de la Regla 62.2 de Procedimiento Civil
[Divorce Proceedings and the Right of Access to the Courts: The
Constitutionality of Puerto Rico Civil Procedure Rule 62.2], 72 Rev. Jur. UPR
163 (2003)
Silence is Golden: The New Illinois Rules on Attorney
Extrajudicial Speech, 33 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 323 (2002) [reprinted in James
R. Devine, William B. Fisch, Stephen D. Easton & Robert H. Aronson,
Professional Responsibility: Problems, Cases, and Materials (3d ed. 2004)]
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