Clinics
Miami Law’s clinical program offers students an immersive opportunity to build transferable lawyering skills representing actual clients, while providing critical legal services to underserved clients and communities.
At Miami Law, experiential education is key to your preparation for the practice of law. With a variety of courses, you’ll have the chance to apply the theories you learn in the classroom to actual legal challenges, ensuring you're ready for the demands of modern legal practice.
No matter what legal field you pursue, you have access to valuable hands-on opportunities. Build practical experience and develop essential lawyering skills through clinics, practicums, externships, litigation, transactional skills courses, and other innovative programs designed to give you a competitive edge.
Kele Stewart, Co-Director of the Children and Youth Law Clinic, Professor of Law, and Former Dean of Experiential Learning discuss the importance of hands-on learning.
Miami Law’s clinical program offers students an immersive opportunity to build transferable lawyering skills representing actual clients, while providing critical legal services to underserved clients and communities.
Practicums give students insight into a specific area of legal interest and a window into what it is like to practice in that area. Students get real-world experience working under the supervision of attorneys and professors in a non-lawyering role as they work on cases.
Miami Law’s externship courses provide students the opportunity to gain practical legal experience, while participating in a class focused on professional identity formation and practice skills. Students work with public interest organizations, government agencies, judges and in-house law departments in any practice area they choose.
In moot courts students learn how to litigate a case doing what attorneys do in real life. Students act as counselors and advocate the different sides of a case based on a problem written by an organization or school.
In today's global economy, expertise in only one country's system of laws is at times, no longer sufficient. While Miami Law has expertise in teaching in the area of international law , for students looking to learn more about international law beyond the classroom , Miami Law offers multiple opportunities to earn credit overseas.