Founded in 1996, the School of Law’s Center for Ethics and Public Service is an interdisciplinary clinical program devoted to the values of ethical judgment, professional responsibility and public service in law and society. The Center’s three in-house clinics and two educational programs provide legal representation to low-income communities in the fields of children’s rights, public health entitlements and non-profit economic development, as well as ethics education and training to the Law School, the University, and Florida business, civic, and legal communities. The Center observes three guiding principles: interdisciplinary collaboration, public-private partnerships, and student mentoring and leadership training. Our goal is to educate law students to serve their communities as citizen lawyers.
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HOPE (Helping Others through Pro Bono Efforts), a national award-winning Public Interest Resource Center, is dedicated to providing opportunities, guidance information and programming to further a commitment to service and public interest law. By sponsoring legal advocacy and community programming, HOPE offers students flexible opportunities for service and learning. Through the HOPE Fellows Program, students are able to obtain public interest positions worldwide.
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UM Law offers students the opportunity to deliver legal representation to low-income communities in the fields of bankruptcy, children and youth law, economic development, health and elder law, and immigration.
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The flagship of the University of Miami skills training is our nationally acclaimed Litigation Skills Program. While many other schools teach trial advocacy, usually as an intensive course taught over a shorter period of time, few teach pretrial skills, and no other school presents it all as one package, for as many hours as we do, or opens it to all students who wish to participate.
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The mission of the Center is to increase knowledge and understanding of international human rights issues, to bring theoretical insights to the study and practice of human rights, to assist public and private human rights organizations throughout the world in addressing the increasingly complex developments in this field, and to equip succeeding generations of lawyers and other professionals with the skills needed to play vital roles in the world community. The Center's program is interdisciplinary in scope and designed to draw upon the full intellectual resources of the Law School and the University Community. The program has three basic components -- scholarship, community outreach, and curriculum.
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For more information on other Public Interest Programs
at the University of Miami School of Law please follow the link below.
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