Immigration
Students in the Immigration Clinic won a bond for a young mother of three, a domestic violence survivor, who was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Environmental Justice & Human Rights
The Human Rights and Environmental Justice clinics collaborated with the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent and the Black Audit Project on a racial justice assessment in Miami-Dade County.
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Investor Rights
At the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, 3Ls conferred on current regulatory and legal issues important to the investing public.
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Children & Youth Law
The clinic fellow has been recognized as an emerging leader in child welfare advocacy for this competitive program known for identifying and nurturing the next generation of child welfare advocates.
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Human Rights
In collaboration with the Miami Coalition to Advance Racial Equity, the clinic filed two complaints with the UN Special Rapporteurs on adequate housing, extreme poverty, and food to help end policies in Miami-Dade County.
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Bankruptcy
The Director of the Eleanor R. Cristol and Judge A. Jay Cristol Bankruptcy Pro Bono Assistance Clinic leads the honorary public service association of United States of international insolvency professionals.
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Health Rights
A second-year law student won a Social Security Disability case for her neurocognitively impaired, homeless client who will now move out of the homeless shelter where he has been living for almost a year.
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Innocence
The Innocence Clinic was recognized by the Miami-Dade Commission and they issued a Proclamation declaring October 4, 2024, as International Wrongful Convictions Day.
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- The University of Miami School of Law will host the Innocence Network’s Southern Regional Summit in January 2025.
- The Innocence Clinic is hosting the National Criminal Defense College Conference of Forensic Cross-Examination in January 2025.
- Professor Craig Trocino and Innocence Clinic students attended the Innocence Network's 21st annual conference in New Orleans.
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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:
S13 E8 Texas’s Ongoing War on LGBTQ+
Associate director of Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic ROBERT LATHAM explains new foster care rules. Recorded October 3, 2024.
S13 E3 A President as Prosecutor
If Kamala Harris ascends to the country's highest office, she will hit a lot of firsts: first woman president, first of Indian heritage, first former prosecutor. On the episode, Innocence Clinic director CRAIG TROCINO, who has spent decades arguing in state and federal court, takes a look at what a former prosecutor as president might look like. Recorded on August 28, 2024.
See all past podcasts.
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Faculty Scholarship & Highlights
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- Member, National Arbitration and Mediation Committee (NAMC).
- Member, Certified Financial Planner Standards Resource Commission.
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- Integrating Human Rights in Domestic Clinical Practice, 30 Clinical L. Rev. 345 (2024) (with Elizabeth Brundige, Aya Fujimura-Fanselow & Ryan Thoreson).
- In Punishing Homelessness, the U.S. Abandons Human Rights, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (October 10, 2024), (with Abigail Wettstein).
- Presenter, “Art Design, and Community Expression in Legal Advocacy,” 2024 International Congress on Law & Mental Health.
- Presenter, “Trauma-Informed Responses to Gender-Based Violence,” 2024 International Congress on Law & Mental Health.
- Presenter, “Socially Engaged Artistic and Legal Collaborations,” 2024 International Congress on Law and Mental Health.
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- (After Babel) Stories of State Regulation of Immigrant Parent-Child Conversations: A Comparative Study, in The State’s Power to Intervene in Family Life (with Arkadiusz Wudarski, ed.) (Max Planck Institute/Mohr Siebeck Verlag) (2024)
- Presenter, “Socially Engaged Artistic and Legal Collaborations,” 2024 International Congress on Law and Mental Health.
- Presenter, “Serving Vulnerable Populations Through Trainee Collaborations in Law Clinics and Forensic Psychiatry Fellowships,” 2024 International Congress on Law and Mental Health.
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- “You’re Killing Me, Smalls!” The Problem of the Nonparticipating Class in Subchapter V, Am. Bankr. Inst. J., Oct. 2024, at 20 (with Ashley D. Champion).
- President, American College of Bankruptcy.
- Presenter, “Uniform Law Commission Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors,” 2024 Commercial Receivers Association Conference.
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- Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air (2024).
- Commentary: What is a City But Its People?, in Urbanization and Migration in Three Continents 62 (Alejandro Portes & Margarita Rodríguez eds., 2024).
- Honorable Mention, Clinical Legal Education Association, Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project, 2024.
- IPPY Award (Independent Publisher Book Award), 2024 (bronze, current events category).
- Presenter, “Somali 92: Clinic and Community Collaborations to Defend Detainees on ICE Air,” May 29, 2024.
- Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, in Conversation with Cani Adan and Nasra Ismail, May 29, 2024.
- Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, The Books & Books Literary Foundation, Sept. 28, 2024.
- Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, Sept. 11, 2024.
- Presenter, “The Role of Federal Courts in Shaping Asylum Law: A Comparative Analysis, “AILA Law Journal Symposium, March 21, 2024.
- Presenter, “Litigation & The 2024 Election,” Federal Court Litigation Section, March 12, 2024.
- Presenter, “Human Rights Dialogues: Xenophobia and Migration in the Southwest Border Region,” University of Texas, Oct. 22, 2024.
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- Co-Chair, AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education.
- Co-Host, First Star Academy Conference, University of Miami School of Law, October 15-17, 2024.
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- Presenter, “Cultivating Future Legal Aid Advocates: Integrating Situated Learning Theory and Passionate Engagement in Clinical Legal Education,” United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Conference of Legal Aid in Criminal Justice Systems, Vienna Austria, November 20, 2024. This paper was awarded as one of the two best submissions.
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