Center for Ethics and Public Service

UPCOMING EVENT - MAY 17
Legal Malpractice and Professional Liability Roundtable
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May 17- 8:30-11:30
Newman Alumni Center
6200 San Amarao Drive

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Cost: $50
Pending CLE: 3.0 general CLE credits, 1.5 CLE ethics credits, and 1.0 technology credits from The Florida Bar

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Founded in 1996, the Center for Ethics and Public Service (“CEPS”) has educated and inspired more than 1,250 law students to serve communities as citizen lawyers. Its key programs are the Historic Black Church Program and the Environmental Justice Clinic ("EJC"). The EJC provides rights education, interdisciplinary research, public policy resources, and advocacy and transactional assistance to low- and moderate-income communities discriminated against by public and private actors in the contexts of the built and natural environment across the fields of civil rights, environmental protection, poverty law, and public health.

CEPS observes three guiding principles: interdisciplinary collaboration, public-private partnership, and student mentoring and leadership training. Staffed by Law School and University student fellows and interns under the direction of Law School and University faculty, the Center operates educational and advocacy programs in the fields of civil rights, poverty, and environmental law.

In the News

Fort Myers files motion to dismiss claims of toxic sludge neighbors
Environmental Racism Research, Activism Wins Student 2018 MCCJ Silver Medallion
Friends of Everglades - Marjorie Stoneman Douglas' Organization – Bestowed Hoeveler Award
Dunbar property owners sue City of Fort Myers to clean up toxic sludge dump
Fort Myers mayor wants toxic city dump cleaned up as lawsuit looms
Test results from sludge site raise eyebrows, prompt more testing
A legend on Miami’s federal bench, Judge William Hoeveler dies at 95
Toxic sludge addressed at Dunbar town hall
Homeowner: Re-fi denied due to city sludge site
Miami Sued for Dumping Cancer-Causing Toxic Ash on Segregated Neighborhood

Programs & Projects

Environmental Justice Clinic
Historic Black Church Program
Oral History & Documentary Film Project
Social Enterprise Clinic

Center Initiatives

LEGAL ETHICS & PROFESSIONALISM COLLOQUIA
Students and faculty present legal ethics and professionalism colloquia on the legal services industry (e.g., for-profit, nonprofit,  government, and in-house) and related ancillary industries (e.g., accounting, banking, and insurance) in collaboration with leading local, state, national, and international members of the academic, bar, and bench communities.

Interdisciplinary Partners

Miller School of Medicine (UMMSM) MD/MPH
     Roderick K. King, M.D., M.P.H.
     Director, Miller School of Medicine’s M.D./M.P.H. Program, Assistant Dean for Public Health
​​​​​​​     Education

School of Education and Human Development
     Dina Birman
     Professor, Educational and Psychological Studies Director, Community Well-Being Ph.D. Program
     (CWB) Editor in Chief, International Journal of Intercultural Relations

     Scot Evans
     Associate Professor, Director of major in Human and Social Development

     Guerda Nicolas
     Professor, Educational and Psychological Studies

     Ashmeet Oberoi
     Clinical Assistant Professor and Director, Community and Social Change Master’s Program

     Ed Trickett
     Visiting Professor and Community Well-Being Scholar

     Laura Kohn-Wood
     Chair and Professor, Educational and Psychological Studies

School of Communication

     Jyotika Ramaprasad
     Professor, School of Communication

Publications

Awards

For More Information

Contact CEPS
See CEPS Staff