Center for Ethics and Public Service

Mission

Founded in 1996, the Center for Ethics and Public Service (CEPS) is a law school-housed ethics education, experiential skills training, and community engagement program devoted to the values of ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and public service in law and society. The CEPS mission is to educate law students to serve their communities as citizen lawyers.

History

For 28 years, CEPS has served as an incubator and an accelerator for numerous public service campaigns and initiatives, including clinics, interdisciplinary programs, student reading groups, summer colloquia, and oral histories and documentary films.

Programs

Black Church Program

A community outreach initiative in South Florida, partnering with faith-based groups to advocate for civil rights and social justice. Key projects include campaigns for equitable transit, fair housing, environmental cleanup, voting rights, and youth education in historically marginalized neighborhoods.
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Community Equity Lab

Addressing housing and health challenges in underserved communities of color in Florida, combining civil rights advocacy and grassroots organizing with university resources to promote social justice in education, health, housing, and equity.
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Legal Profession Program

This program includes both CLE-oriented practice seminars and student-centered leadership workshops in cooperation with Florida bar associations, federal and state courts, law firms, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations.
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Oral History Film Project

Preserving the cultural history of low-income communities of color in South Florida through oral history archives and documentaries. In partnership with Ransom Everglades High School, the project has produced five films since 2010, covering topics like Coconut Grove Village West, public school segregation, and environmental injustice in Miami.
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Program faculty, staff, and students collaborate with the Florida bar and bench; anti-poverty, civil rights, environmental, and public health organizations; civic and faith-based groups, nonprofit corporations, and neighborhood associations; and schools across the University of Miami.

Community Impact

Since 1996, CEPS faculty and staff have trained more than 1,400 graduate and undergraduate fellows and interns and collaborated with more than 50,000 civic leaders in ethics and professionalism programs as well as anti-poverty, civil rights, environmental justice, and public health campaigns. CEPS faculty also have been widely cited in law journals and in the media.

Recognition

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Faculty and Staff

Professor Anthony V. Alfieri

Director, Center for Ethics & Public Service
Founder, Historic Black Church Program
aalfieri@law.miami.edu
305-284-2735

Alexander Rundlet

Fredman Family Foundation Practitioner-in-Residence, Lecturer
axr2779@miami.edu

Dr. Kesha Merritt

Sr. Program Manager
keshamerritt@law.miami.edu
305-284-9185

Anaise Boucher- Browning

Program Coordinator
aboucher-browning@miami.edu
305-284-3934

Contact

Street Address

1311 Miller Drive, Room G262
Coral Gables, FL 33146-8087
Phone 305-284-3934

Mailing Address

University of Miami School of Law
Center for Ethics & Public Service
P.O. Box 248087
Coral Gables, Florida
33124-8087
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