Ricardo Bascuas

University of Miami School of Law

Ricardo Bascuas is a 1996 alumnus of Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal. Following law school, he practiced for three years with Zuckerman, Spaeder, Taylor & Evans in Miami, specializing in commercial litigation, fraud and racketeering, and antitrust. He then clerked with Federal District Court Judge Adalberto Jordan in Miami, after which he became an assistant federal public defender, representing indigent defendants against federal criminal charges. He joined the UMiami faculty on a full-time basis as associate professor in Fall 2003, teaching in the areas of procedure and criminal law.