Environmental Law Spotlights
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Director Doug Ruley and team work at the intersection of environmental, civil rights, poverty, and public health law, tackling issues in South Florida, including climate change, displacement, contamination, environmental health, and municipal equity.
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Miami Law is one of the few Accredited Observer Institutions in the U.S. that takes students to UN COP Climate Change Conferences where they observe, support local governments and NGOs, network, and then continue advocacy globally.
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For the second year in a row, University of Miami students took home first place at the competition that encourages collaboration with policy stakeholders and conceptualization and implementation of innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems.
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The Clinic is helping residents of the historic community reverse environmental injustices that have plagued their neighborhood for years. Law students work with partners to bring attention, investment, and action to help Overtown's public parks.
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A group of 20 students, including law student Mischaël Cetoute, spent spring break in Chiloé Island learning about its environmental regulations as part of the class “Fieldwork in Coastal Management,” co-listed with Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science.
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At the fall 2023 Environmental Law Program Distinguished Speaker Series, experts unpack the recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Sacket v. EPA, limiting the number of protected wetlands and the International Convention on Wetlands.
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More Environmental Law News
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Faculty Scholarship & Highlights
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Environmental Law Program Director
The Afterlife of Confederate Monuments , 98 IND. L.J. 371 (2023) (with Jess Phelps).
Confederate Heritage Organizations and Confederate Monument Removal , 71 WASH. U. J.L. & POL’Y 77 (2023) (with Jess Phelps).
Vermin of Proof: Arguments for the Admissibility of Animal Model Studies as Proof of Causation in Toxic Tort Litigation , 34 GEO. ENV'T L. REV. 303 (2022) (with Kristen Ranges).
Quoted in “ Court battles will ensue following approval of oil drilling project.”
Quoted in “ Score One for Youth on Climate Ruling."
Presented work on judicial obstacles to environmental protection, with a focus on recent developments in takings law at annual meeting of the Association of Law, Property, and Society (ALPS).
Participated in workshop “The Future of Housing: Resilient Property Perspectives and Sustainable Solutions” at Spain’s Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law . (June 2023).
Presented at the book launch of Squatting and The State (by Lorna Fox O’Mahony and Marc Roark) at the University of Essex, discussing housing rights and environmental protection in the context of climate change (June 2023).
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Law, Property, and Society.
Co-founder, Environmental Law Collaborative.
Member, IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law and World Commission of Protected Areas.
Member, Resilience Property Theory Group.
Member, Graduate Program Committee, University of Miami Climate Resilience Academy.
2023 Mary E. Doyle Faculty Mentorship Award
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Localizing Human Rights in Cities, 31 S. CAL. REV. L. & SOC. JUST. 67 (2022).
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.).
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).
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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.).
U.S. Anti-Black Immigration Policies are the Afterlife of Slavery, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (May 30, 2023), (with Gabrielle Thomas).
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The Fortieth Anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, 99 INT'L L. STUD. 865 (2022).
United States Representative, Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea.
Chair, English Language Group of the Conference Drafting Committee, United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
Served as co-editor in chief of the American Journal of International Law.
Served as vice-president of the American Society of International Law.
Member, Institut de Droit International, the American Law Institute, and the Council on Foreign Relations.
Judge ad hoc, International Court of Justice and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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Book Review, 57 CISTERCIAN STUD. Q. 134 (2022) (reviewing MICHAEL PATRICK O’BRIEN, MONASTERY MORNINGS: MY UNUSUAL BOYHOOD AMONG THE SAINTS AND MONKS (2021)).
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EVENT HIGHLIGHTS FROM 2023
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