Rankings
Miami Law's trailblazing clinical program consists of nine clinics, with 300+ students participating with direct client representation yearly.
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Immigration
Students Andy Co and Gianna Balli successfully litigated the Clinic’s first merits hearing in front of the Miami Immigration Court, gaining valuable hands-on skills.
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Environmental Justice
Limited or no food access, affordability, and adequacy in disenfranchised communities in Miami give rise to potential human rights violations. The clinics developed a study focusing on how the current food system, laws, and regulations impact vulnerable local populations.
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Human Rights
Students traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, with the Acting Director and Acting Associate Director for the Fifth Periodic Review of the United States’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
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Children & Youth Law
Law student Nelly Cabrera successfully advocated for her client in juvenile court and before the administrative foster care agency to remove a work restriction, receive a new Social Security Card, and be able to start applying for jobs.
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Investor Rights
Law student Sabrina Serber attended sessions of the Securities Law Annual Meeting on cryptocurrency litigation, investment adviser arbitration, and collecting from poorly capitalized broker-dealers.
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Innocence
The recognized students spent two years of work on the largest and most complicated case on the docket and drafted two of the best briefs in the case, and as a team, remained engaged and focused during the litigation process, even after the clinic received an adverse ruling.
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Awards
Miami Law received the “Environmental, Social, and Governance Impact” and “Unsung Hero” awards. The former recognizes organizations demonstrating social responsibility through client-focused efforts, pro bono work, and more. The latter honored Scott Eichhorn, Director of the Investor Rights Clinic.
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In the weekly podcast from Miami Law, clinic faculty and clinician experts examined and explained the law, one headline at a time. Episodes included:
The Crypto Mogul in the Docket
Investor Rights Clinic Director Scott Eichhorn examines Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX, and the legal peril following his company's high-profile collapse in 2022. Recorded October 19, 2023.
What’s Right with Bail Reform
Director of Miami Law's Innocence Clinic Craig Trocino unpacks the Illinois Pretrial Fairness Act. Recorded September 21, 2023.
The Global Heat Wave
Director of the Environmental Justice Clinic Doug Ruley handicaps the planet's chance of surviving the climate crisis. Recorded August 22, 2023.
See all past podcasts.
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Faculty Scholarship & Highlights
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Race Ethics: Colorblind Formalism and Color-Coded Pragmatism in Lawyer Regulation, 36 GEO. J. LEGAL ETHICS 353 (2023).
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Pushes, Tweets, Emojis and FinTok: Emerging Tech Meets Old School Securities Regulation, 30 No. 3 PIABA Bar J. 319 (2023)
Recent Arbitration Awards, 30 PIABA Bar J. 229 (2023).
Recent Arbitration Awards, 30 PIABA Bar J. 95 (2023).
Appointed to Florida Bar's 517 Task Force, which is drafting reform legislation to modernize Florida's securities law statute.
Presenter, “DIY Investing,” North American Securities Administrators Association fall meeting.
Member, Board of Directors, Public Investors Advocate Bar Association.
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U.S. Anti-Black Immigration Policies are the Afterlife of Slavery, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (May 30, 2023), (with Gabrielle Thomas).
Opinion, Domestic-Violence Service Providers Need Our Help as Reports of Abuse Surge During COVID, MIA. HERALD, Feb. 4, 2022, at 13A (with Caroline Bettinger-Lopez and Celia Davies).
Using International Human Rights Law to Address Hunger in the U.S., BUS., ENTREPRENEURSHIP & TAX L. REV., Fall 2022, at 1.
Gender Justice and Human Rights Symposium: Holistic Approaches to Gender Violence, U. MIAMI INT’L & COMPAR. L. REV., Fall 2022, at 217 (with Tamar Ezer, et al.).
Presenter, “Creative Multimedia Advocacy in Clinical Legal Education,” 2023 AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education.
Presenter, "Roundtable on the Right to Food," 2023 Conference of the Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and the Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society (AFHVS), hosted by Boston University.
Recipient, 2023 Richard Hausler Golden Apple Award, for faculty member contributing most academically and through extracurricular activities, to the student body.
Member, International Board, FIAN International
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What Makes SPACs So Special?, 29 PIABA BAR J. 319 (2022).
Quoted in, “ Crypto’s ‘Wunderkind’ Faces Prison Time for Fraud.”
Presenter, “Staying Ahead of the Curve: Hot Topics and Future Trends,” Practicing Law Institute Securities Arbitration 2023.
Nominated to serve a three-year term on the National Arbitration and Mediation Committee beginning June 2023.
Member, Certified Financial Planner Standards Resource Commission.
Recipient, Unsung Hero Award, Daily Business Review Florida Legal Awards 2023.
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Calling for Holistic Maternal Care to Address Racial Disparities: The Role of Midwives and Doulas , BILL OF HEALTH BLOG (Aug. 2, 2023), (with Jordan Brooks).
Addressing Officer-Perpetrated Gender-Based Violence and Ending the “Blue Wall of Silence” , INTLAWGRRLS BLOG (Mar. 17, 2023).
Gender Justice and Human Rights Symposium: Holistic Approaches to Gender Violence , U. MIAMI INT’L & COMPAR. L. REV., Fall 2022, at 217 (with Denisse Cordova Montes, et al.).
Opinion, Surfside’s Attempt to Criminalize Soap is the Latest Attack on Homeless People , MIA. HERALD, Jun. 13, 2023 (with with Katherine Murray, Sarah Walters, Taylor Moore).
Presenter, “Creative Multimedia Advocacy in Clinical Legal Education,” AALS Clinical Conference, 2023.
Presenter, “Global Change at a Local Stage: Lessons Learned and Paths Forward for City-Academic Partnerships,” Occidental College’s Young Institute on the Global Political Economy and the University of Southern California’s Institute on Inequalities in Global Public Health, 2023.
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Hired as Associate Director, Miami Law’s Environmental Justice Clinic in the Spring of 2023.
Presenter “ Climate Gentrification: Designing A Comprehensive Assessment Tool of Historical, Social, and Geographic Factors to Guide Actionable and Equitable Neighborhood Resilience ,” 2023 Concordia Americas Summit.
Quoted in “ Score One for Youth on Climate Ruling."
Member, Resilience Challenge Project, “Climate Gentrification: Designing A Comprehensive Assessment Tool of Historical, Social, and Geographic Factors to Guide Actionable and Equitable Neighborhood Resilience,” U-Link Laboratory for Integrative Knowledge, University of Miami.
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NFTs; NIL; NFA: Understanding the Right to Publicity Associated with Digital Assets, 9 ST. THOMAS J. COMPLEX LITIG., no. 2, 2023, at 51 (with Jonathan Schmalfeld).
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Navigating Zombies and Alter-Egos: Eleventh Circuit Reaffirms Standards for Receiver Standing, AM. BANKR. INST. J., Oct. 2022, at 28 (with Ashley D. Champion).
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SHACKLED: 92 REFUGEES IMPRISONED ON ICE AIR (2024).
Human Frailty, Unbreakable Victims, and Asylum, 54 COLUM. HUM. RTS. L. REV. 726 (2023) (with Kristi E. Wintermeyer).
“What is a City But Its People”: Commentary on “Migration and Peripheral Urbanization: The Case of the Metropolitan Zone of the Valley of Mexico” by Raúl Delgado Wise, Francisco Caballero Anguiano and Selene Gaspar Olvera, 46 Ethnic & Racial Stud. 2439 (2023).
Presenter, “Habeas A to Z,” American Immigration Lawyers Association, February 2, 2023.
Presenter, “So You Want to Write A Book With Impact?” AALS Annual Conference, January 5, 2023.
Presenter, "Patel and APA Actions on Discretionary Denials," American Immigration Lawyers Association, Midwest Regional Conference, Chicago, Mar. 3, 2023.
Presenter, "Having an Impact through Scholarship, Writing and Beyond," CLEA New Clinicians Conference, San Francisco, April 27, 2023.
Presenter, "#Banned In Florida: Immigrant Justice, Progressive Politics, and Tenure," Southern Clinical Conference, Oct. 21, 2023.
Presenter, "Defending Immigrants Under DeSantis," Southern Clinical Conference, Oct. 22, 2023.
Presenter, "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.
Presenter, "Using Constitutional Law to Your Advantage in Immigration Court," American Immigration Lawyers Association, Nov. 14, 2023.
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The Importance of Advocacy Across Child Welfare, Schools and Juvenile Justice, CHILD WELFARE 360 (2023).
Educational Advocacy, in CHILD WELFARE LAW AND PRACTICE: REPRESENTING CHILDREN, PARENTS, AND AGENCIES IN NEGLECT, ABUSE, AND DEPENDENCY CASES (Josh Gupta-Kagan ed., 4th ed. 2022).
Presenter, “The Best Interest of our Clients: Ethical and Practical Considerations for Legal Profession,” Ladies Empowerment and Action Program (LEAP), August 25, 2023.
Presenter, “Embracing Non-Traditional Experiential Project,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS) annual conference, July 27, 2023.
Discussant, “Emerging Consideration for Clinics at the Intersection of Law Office, Course, and University Unit,” Southeastern Association of Law Schools (SEALS), July 27, 2023.
Presenter, “Leveraging Empirical Analysis in Advocacy and Scholarship,” AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, April 29, 2023.
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Jurisdiction and Review, in FLORIDA APPELLATE PRACTICE 3-1 (12th ed., 2022).
Co-Chair, Innocence Network Amicus Committee.
Member, Planning Committee, 2023 CLEA New Clinicians Conference.
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CLINICAL FACULTY BOOK EVENTS 2024
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