José M. Gabilondo is professor of law and associate dean for accreditation & reporting at Florida International University.
Born in Santiago de Cuba, José M. Gabilondo teaches corporate finance, banking regulation, tax, and foreign and comparative law. He earned his J.D. at the Boalt Hall Law School of the University of California, Berkeley, and his B.A. (cum laude) at Harvard University.
Before joining the FIU College of Law, he worked in financial market regulation at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the World Bank. He served as associate dean for academic affairs of the FIU College of Law from 2009 to 2011. His scholarship focuses on financial markets and Cuba legal studies.
Professor Gabilondo has lectured at universities throughout the United States, Mexico, and Cuba. His work has appeared in the Journal of Corporation Law, Wake Forest Law Review, Catalejos, Seton Hall Law Review, UNIjuris (Cuba), Maryland Journal of Business & Technology Law, and Wisconsin Journal of Law, Gender, and Society, among others. He has been a featured speaker at meetings of the Latin American Law and Economics Association, the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Organización Nacional de Bufetes Colectivos (Cuba), the American Society for International Law, the American Association of Law Schools, the Georgetown University Conference on Socio-Economics, Law and Society, the American Association of University Professors, LatCrit, and the Latin American Studies Association. He is a nationally recognized commentator in the Spanish-language media on financial and economic matters.
Professor Gabilondo recently authored the book Institutional Credit Markets: Structure, Funding, and Regulation (2023).