UM Law School Professor Bernard Perlmutter Points Out Differences Between Elian Gonzalez Case and One Involving Custody Battle Over 4- year-old Cuban Girl
UM Law School Professor Bernard Perlmutter, an expert in children’s issues, was quoted in a recent Miami Herald article concerning a custody dispute involving a 4- year-old Cuban girl. Many are suggesting parallels to the Elian Gonzalez case, but Professor Perlmutter says the cases are indeed very different. To read the article, click here.
About Professor Bernard Perlmutter
Bernard P. Perlmutter, Esq., is Assistant Professor of Clinical Legal Education and Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic, an in-house legal clinic at the University of Miami School of Law. In addition to his teaching duties at the Clinic and the Center for Ethics and Public Service, Professor Perlmutter teaches classes in children and the law, lawyering skills, poverty law and legal ethics. He is also Director of the law school’s Public Interest Law Summer Program in Children and the Law.
About the Children & Youth Law Clinic
The Children & Youth Law Clinic is an in-house, live-client clinic established in 1995 by the Law School. Supervised by two clinical instructors who are licensed Florida attorneys, the Clinic has a caseload of approximately 60 active cases, in which approximately a dozen student interns each semester provide direct legal services to clients in a range of legal matters. A third Clinic attorney is a recent UM law graduate awarded a prestigious two-year Equal Justice Works/Greenberg Traurig/Florida Bar Foundation public interest law fellowship. The Clinic primarily serves the legal needs of children in the foster care system in dependency, health care, mental health, disability, independent living, education, immigration and other general civil legal matters, ensuring that they have a voice in the court proceedings, and engaging in impact litigation, law reform advocacy and community lawyering.
Related Links
- Miami Herald Article: Parallels to Elián case end in the courtroom (registration/login maybe required)
- Professor Bernard Perlmutter's Biography
- UM Law School's Children & Youth Law Clinic Website
posted 26-March-2007
