The killing of George Floyd, the African American man who died as a white police officer pinned his neck to the ground under a knee, sparked numerous days of nationwide protests against social injustice and police brutality that ranged from...
The symposium “Children of Immigrants in the Age of Deportation” was led by Alejandro Portes, professor of law and sociology at the School of Law, with the support of Margarita Rodriguez, lecturer in sociology and UMIA faculty fellow for...
If Michael Flynn’s legal case were a swatch of cloth, the fibers in the saga of the former national security advisor would be stretched to near transparency, according to Ricardo Bascuas, a professor of law in the University of Miami School of...
As the pandemic continues its infectious spread, few might have imagined that towns in Iowa and South Dakota would become among the deadliest hotspots for the virus. But the Midwest and Great Plains are home to large meatpacking plants for Tyson...
The COVID-19 pandemic raises legal issues on every front.
The third in a series of free webinars, “The Law of COVID-19: Miami Law Addresses Politics in Pandemic America,” delved into issues such as constitutional, statutory...
The COVID-19 pandemic raises socio-legal issues on every front.
In the second of a series of three, the free 90-minute webinar on April 7 featured Miami Law faculty conversations addressing some of the most important of...
Professor Kunal Parker (Photo by Joshua Prezant)
Professor Kunal Parker, a Dean's Distinguished Scholar at Miami Law and a historian of U.S. immigration and citizenship law and American legal...
In the wake of measures instituted to stop the spread of the pandemic across the globe, emission levels and air pollution have declined in cities hit hard by the virus.
Now there appears to be undeniable proof that it can be done—...
The COVID-19 pandemic raises legal issues on every front. Recently, experts from the Miami Law tackled some of the ways in which the virus and responses to it intersect with every legal sector, and most especially with at risk...
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez
According to the World Health Organization, one in three women worldwide will suffer physical or sexual abuse in their lifetime, which equals about one billion women and...
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