Immigration
Students won an asylum case and successfully defended a detained man in immigration court, halting his deportation.
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Human Rights
Students traveled to Immokalee to learn about one of the most successful human rights and corporate social responsibility campaigns in generations.
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Children & Youth
The Clinic hosted a panel to help equip academic advisors with the tools to support current and former foster youth.
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Environmental Justice
A community in Miami joins forces with the clinic to prevent further development of Lake Carmen amid legal battle.
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Investor Rights
In D.C. students met with regulators at the FINRA and the CFPB to discuss policymaking and investor protection.
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Startup
Andrew Mascia gained hands-on experience advising early-stage startups and a nonprofit on entity formation, employment law, and IP matters.
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Health Rights
Student successfully assisted a client with cognitive deficits in attaining U.S. citizenship through a collaborative effort with a medical school doctor.
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Innocence
The Clinic won a victory in its nearly decade-long battle to overturn the wrongful conviction of Lawrence Johnson, serving a life sentence for murder.
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Center for Ethics and Public Service
Children & Youth
Human Rights
Immigration
Innocence
Investor Rights
Startup
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Faculty Scholarship & Highlights
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A Client’s Crisis Becomes a Legal Crisis: A Domestic Violence Ruling Goes Global, in Crisis Lawyering: Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations 13 (Ray Brescia & Eric K. Stern eds., reprint 2024) (2021).
Presenter, Inside Venezuela: IACHR Findings, University of Miami, April 21, 2025.
Moderator, "Transforming Care: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions in Men’s Involvement in Care Work." Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.
Presenter, “Human Rights, Gender, and Campus Safety: A Gender & Sexuality Studies Colloquium,” University of Miami, March 4, 2025.
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Member, National Arbitration and Mediation Committee (NAMC).
Member, Certified Financial Planner Standards Resource Commission.
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Town Hall on the Sustainable Development Goals and Racial Justice in Miami-Dade County, 15 U. MIA Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 1 (2025) (with Denisse Córdova Montes et al.).
Cities and the Human Right to Housing, OPEN GLOBAL RIGHTS (May 19, 2025), (with Tara Campbell, Robert Robinson, and Jackie Smith).
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).
Abortion Bans: The Devastating Impact on Fundamental Rights, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (April 28, 2025), (with Clare Atkinson, & Natalie Kemper).
In Punishing Homelessness, the U.S. Abandons Human Rights, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (October 10, 2024), (with Abigail Wettstein).
Housing, Not Punishment to Address Homelessness, HUMAN RIGHTS AT HOME BLOG (June 14, 2024).
Presenter, “Integrating Homesless Rights Advocacy into Your Clinic or Clinical Program Following Grants Pass v. Johnson,” April 2025.
Presenter, “Bringing Human Rights Home: Using International Law to Advance Human Rights in the U.S.,” University of Cincinnati College of Law, April 2025.
Presenter, “Human Rights, Gender, and Campus Safety: A Gender & Sexuality Studies Colloquium,” University of Miami, March 4, 2025.
Presenter, “Homelessness, Policy, and Reform,” Samuel Lawrence Foundation FFS: No Place Like Home, February 2025.
Presenter, “Health as a Human Right,” Human Rights Watch, January 2025.
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Primer on Anthropogenic Nitrous Oxide: The Last Significant Ozone-Depleting Substance and Greenhouse Gas Not Regulated by the Montreal Protocol, Institute for Government and Sustainable Development, (2024) (with Zaelke D., Hull A., Dreyfus G., Sun X., Ferris R., & Miller J.).
China’s Ongoing Efforts to Address Methane Emissions and Opportunities to Further Raise China’s Methane Mitigation Ambition, Institute for Government and Sustainable Development, (2024) (with Sun X., Ferris R.).
Presenter, “Human Rights, Gender, and Campus Safety: A Gender & Sexuality Studies Colloquium,” University of Miami, March 4, 2025.
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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).
Appointment, Director of Law Clinics, June 1, 2025.
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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).
Speaker, "2024 New Migration Books (Shackled)," Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 24, 2025.
Speaker, "Author Meets Reader: New Socio-legal Books Centering Migrant Stories," Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, May 23, 2025.
Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, University of Oklahoma College of Law, April 10, 2025.
Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, University of St. Thomas School of Law, March 31, 2025.
Speaker, "Immigration Bonds," Americans for Immigrant Justice, March 28, 2025.
Speaker, "Voices for Change: Is Hate a Crime?" Broward County Racial Equity Task Force, Oakland Park, March 27, 2025.
Speaker, "Asylum Claims Based Upon a 'Pattern or Practice' of Persecution and Disfavored Groups," American Immigration Law Association, March 20, 2025.
Speaker, “Lessons from the Field: The Rights of Immigrants Amidst Policy Shifts,” University of Miami, March 20, 2025.
Speaker, “Human Rights, Gender, and Campus Safety: A Gender & Sexuality Studies Colloquium,” University of Miami, March 4, 2025.
Speaker, "Human Rights Dialogues: Xenophobia and Migration in the Southwest Border Region," University of Texas, October 22, 2024.
Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, The Books & Books Literary Foundation, September 28, 2024.
Guest Lecturer, Harvard University, "Detention, Deportation, and Due Process: A Look at the Innerworkings of the U.S. Immigration System and How It Can Be Changed," September 12, 2024.
Book Talk, Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, Atlanta, September 11, 2024.
Award recipient, Shackled, finalist in two categories of the Foreword INDIES.
Award recipient, Shackled, Readers’ Choice Book Award finalist.
Award recipient, Shackled, Clinical Legal Education Association, Honorable Mention, Excellence in a Public Interest Case or Project, 2024.
Award recipient, Swarthmore College Eugene M. Lang '38, H'81 Impact Award, 2025.
Immediate Past Associate Dean for Experiential Learning.
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Self-Regulation and High School Graduation for Youth With and Without Disabilities, in Foster Care in Remedial and Special Education (2024) (with Cavendish, W., Schreiner, N., & Perez, D.).
Award recipient, University of Miami Provost Research Award, Excellence in Experiential Teaching Award, April 23, 2025.
Immediate Past Co-Chair, AALS Section on Clinical Legal Education.
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Terry Hubbard v. State of Florida, petitioner’s initial brief on the merits filed 5/22/25, Supreme Court of Florida, case number SC2024-1522.
Podcast, “SCOTUS Orders New Trial for Death Row Inmate,” The Miami Law Explainer, recorded March 27, 2025.
Podcast, “Junk Science in the Courtroom,” The Miami Law Explainer, recorded January 8, 2025.
Presenter, “Cultivating Future Legal Aid Advocates: Integrating Situated Learning Theory and Passionate Engagement in Clinical Legal Education,” United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vienna, Austria, November 20, 2024.
Award recipient, “Cultivating Future Legal Aid Advocates: Integrating Situated Learning Theory and Passionate Engagement in Clinical Legal Education,” named one of the two best submissions by UNODC.
Host with Innocence Clinic, Innocence Network’s Southern Regional Summit, January 2025.
Host with Innocence Clinic, National Criminal Defense College Conference of Forensic Cross-Examination, January 2025.
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Award recognition, Trademark Law, The Best Lawyers in America® (2024).
Award recognition, WTR Global Leaders, World Trademark Review (2024).
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