Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic

Making a Difference as an LL.M. in the Bankruptcy Assistance Clinic

Clinic Steps Up for Homeowners Affected by MV Realty Bankruptcy

Center for Ethics and Public Service

Miami Law Center Celebrates Win in Federal Voting Rights Case

Children & Youth Law Clinic

Clinic Contributes to Legal Victory for Children's Privacy Rights

Professor Kele Stewart Serves as Co-Chair of the AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education

Children and Youth Clinic Defend Special Needs Child Rejected of Health Benefits

Professor Kele Stewart Holds Workshop on Abolishing the Family Policing System

Professor Bernard Perlmutter Participates in Two Amicus Curiae Briefs

Environmental Justice Clinic

Miami Law Places Second at Environmental Law and Policy Hack Competition

Human Rights Clinic

Acting Associate Director of the Human Rights Clinic Receives Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award

Clinic Supports Pan-African Litigation on Women’s Rights and Economic Justice

Law Students Seek Justice for Colombian Victims

Clinic Hosts United Nations Consultation on Racism and Violations of the Right to Food

Immigration Clinic

After Eight Years, Woman Wins Protection from Torture in Haiti

Immigration Clinic Halts Deportation of Mother of Eight

Rebecca Sharpless Publishes Book on the Brute-Force Mechanics of Deportation

Rebecca Sharpless Participates in Three Speaking Events

Clinic Halts Deportation of Disabled Child’s Mother

Client Who Survived Kidnapping and Torture Ordered Deported

Innocence

Innocence Clinic Hosts True Cost of False Accusations

Investor Rights

Investor Rights Clinic Fellow Wins Burton Award for Legal Writing

Startup Clinic

Adrian E. Alvarez, Esq. Joins Startup Clinic as Supervising Attorney

In the weekly podcast from Miami Law, clinic faculty and clinician experts examined and explained the law, one headline at a time. Episodes included:

Progressive Prosecutors Fight Back

FL Governor Ron DeSantis suspended two popular and elected progressive state attorneys, who promptly filed suit. Innocence Director Craig Trocino tracks the two cases. Recorded January 23, 2024.

Russia's Deportation of Ukraine's Children

Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been abducted by Russia since the invasion in February 2022. Founder of the Children and Youth Clinic, Bernard Perlmutter, weighs in on the efforts to have the children returned. Recorded February 20, 2024.

The Inadequacies of Self-Defense Laws

U.S. laws inadequately address violence in domestic abuse cases. Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, who led the Obama and Biden administration's effort to address gender-based violence, talks about where we've been and where we are going. Recorded February 29, 2024.

Death Row Defense on the Cheap

Flat fees for criminal defense representation was the law of the land for decades, even for death row cases, resulting in attorney's fee averaging out to as little as $4 an hour. Innocence Director Craig Trocino looks at the fallout. Recorded April 11, 2024. 

See all past podcasts.

Anthony V. Alfieri

• Race, Legal Representation, and Lawyer Ethics, in The Oxford Handbook of Race and Law in the United States (Devon Carbado, Emily Houh, & Khiara Bridges eds., 2023)

Carrie Bettinger-López

• The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and Service Providers in Miami-Dade County: A Case Study, in Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic: An International and Interdisciplinary View  (Florence Seemungal ed., 2024) (with Denisse Córdova Montes)

Melanie Cherdack

• State Restitution Funds as Sources of Recovery for Securities Fraud Victims (Oct. 25, 2023), (Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association Annual Meeting)
• Recent Arbitration Awards, 30 PIABA Bar J. 357 (2023)
• Arbitrator, Financial Industry Regulatory Association (FINRA) and National Futures Association (NFA)
• Member, Board of Directors, Public Investors Advocate Bar Association (PIABA)

R. Denisse Córdova Montes

• The Human Right to Food in Maine and Beyond, Miami Law Magazine, Spring 2024.
• Deporting Haitian migrants tears Black families apart. It’s the afterlife of slavery, Opinion, Miami Herald (2023) (with Gabrielle Thomas, Clayton Oates, and Megan Williams)
• Food, Housing, and Racial Justice Symposium, 31 U. Miam Int. and Comp. L. Rev.78 (2024) (with Tamar Ezer, Photini Kamvisseli Suarez, Katherine Murray, Julian Seethal, Mackenzie Steele, and Sarah Walters)
• The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Gender-Based Violence and Service Providers in Miami-Dade County: A Case Study, in Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic: An International and Interdisciplinary View (Florence Seemungal ed., 2024) (with Carrie Bettinger-López) 
• Recipient, 2024 University of Miami Provost Research Award for Excellence in Experiential Teaching.

Tamar Ezer

• Integrating Human Rights in Domestic Clinical Practice, Clinical L. Rev.(2023) with Elizabeth Brundige, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow, Ryan Thoreson 
• Food, Housing, and Racial Justice Symposium, 31 U. Miami Int. and Comp. L. Rev. 78 (2024) (with Denisse Córdova Montes, Photini Kamvisseli Suarez, Katherine Murray, Julian Seethal, Mackenzie Steele, and Sarah Walters)
• U.N. Human Rights Committee Offers Critical Recommendations for Transgender Rights in the United States, Human Rights At Home Blog (Nov. 29, 2023) (with Nic Stelter)

Abigail Fleming

• Public Health Impacts and Intra-Urban Forced Displacement due to Climate Gentrification in the Greater Miami Area—Community Lawyering for Environmental Justice and Equitable Development, 78 U. Mia. L. Rev. 432 (2024) (with Theresa Pinto, Sabrina Payoute, and Elissa Klein)

JoNel Newman 

• How to Set up and Run a Law Clinic Principles and Practice by Donald Nicolson, and Richard Grimes (2024) (with Donald Nicolson, and Richard Grimes)

Patricia Redmond

• Elected in 2024 as President of the American College of Bankruptcy.

Rebecca Sharpless

• Book Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air (University of California Press, 2024) won an IPPY (Independent Publisher Book Award) in the current events category (bronze).
• The Role of Federal Courts in Shaping Asylum Law: A Comparative Analysis, AILA Law Journal Symposium, Mar. 21, 2024.
• Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, Harvard Law School, Mar. 20, 2024.
• Litigation & The 2024 Election, Federal Court Litigation Section, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Quarterly Call, Mar. 13, 2024.
• Using Constitutional Law to Your Advantage in Immigration Court, American Immigration Lawyers Association, Nov. 14, 2023.
• What is a City But Its People? International Conference: Urbanization and Migration In Three Continents, University of Miami Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, Nov. 9, 2023.

Kele Stewart

• Co-Chair of AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education.