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Publications
After graduating from law school, Alberto Bernabe clerked for Associate 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 John Marshall, 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 was awarded an LLM in Legal Education in 1994.
Professor Bernabe has published articles and lectured on many different topics, including the effects of globalization on different aspects of the law, Legal Ethics, the history of American legal education, Journalism Ethics, the Socratic method of teaching, the "marketplace of ideas," and the relationship between the media and the judicial system.
Professor Bernabe joined the faculty in 1992. He teaches Torts and Professional Responsibility.
Publications: Articles in English
Coming Soon to a Law Practice Near You: The New (and Improved?) Illinois Rules of Professional Conduct, 39 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. ____ (2008) (forthcoming)
Silence is Golden: The New Illinois Rules on Attorney Extrajudicial Speech, 33 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 323 (2002) [also reprinted in James R. Devine, William B. Fisch, Stephen D. Easton & Robert H. Aronson, Professional Responsibility: Problems, Cases, and Materials (3d ed. 2004)]
Another Attempt to Solve the Prior Restraint Mystery: Applying the Nebraska Press Standard to Media Disclosure of Attorney-Client Communications, 18 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 307 (2000)
Government Advertising Placement and the First Amendment: Freedom of the Press Outweighs the Rights of the Government as Contractor, 22 Comm. & The Law 1 (2000)
Freedom of the Press and the Business of Journalism: The Myth of Democratic Competition in the Marketplace of Ideas, 67 Rev. Jur. UPR 447 (1998)
Prior Restraints On The Media and The Right to a Fair Trial: A Proposal for a New Standard, 84 Kentucky L. J. 259 (1995-96)
Tomorrow's Law Schools: Globalization and Legal Education, 32 San Diego L. Rev. 137 (1995)
To Dream the Impossible Dream: Globalization and Harmonization of Environmental Laws, 20 North Carolina J. Of Int'l Law and Commercial Regulation 205 (1995)
Publications: Articles in Spanish
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 daZos 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)
Revisión del Código Civil y la responsabilidad civil extracontractual (Parte II): Una propuesta alterna 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)
Que Descanse en Paz: La Causa de Acción por Difamación de Personas Fallecidas [May it Rest in Peace: The Cause of Action for Defamation of the Dead in Puerto Rico], 70 Rev. Jur. UPR 917 (2001)
Perdón si es que te he faltado: retractaciones en casos de difamación [Corrections and clarifications in defamation cases in Puerto Rico], 68 Rev. Jur. UPR 635 (1999)
Prueba de referencia, el derecho a confrontación y el abuso sexual de menores: Algunas consideraciones constitucionales [Hearsay and The Sexual Abuse of Children: Constitutional Issues], 56 Rev. Jur. UPR 373 (1987)
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