Ronnie Stevens, left, who graduated from the First Star Academy, celebrated with Kaitlyn Casanas, center, assistant program director; and Maria Pia De Castro, program director.
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T-ROC founder and CEO Brett Beveridge GRAD YEAR greeted 18 of the 25 students, imparting some words of wisdom, and then gifted them the laptops and laptop backpacks. (Photo credit: Manny Hernandez)...
Kristen Calzadilla with judges from the Third District Court of Appeal via Zoom
Kristen Calzadilla, who graduated from Miami Law in spring 2021, presented oral arguments in the Third...
When asked what he does at the Children & Youth Law Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law, associate director Robert Latham responded with a small grin. “We create trouble,” he said, before quickly adding, “and try to avoid trouble...
Myles Crandall, Hayley Goodman & Jillian Kushner
During the winter break, over 30 Miami Law students helped to build their legal skills in the areas of social justice and public interest,...
Professor Kele Stewart
During the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, Professor Kele Stewart, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning and Co-Director of the Children &...
Pictured from left to right at the National Youth at Risk Conference in March 2020 are Wendy Cavendish, SEHD students Grace Migliozzi and Brittney Davis, Kele Stewart and Ph.D. candidate Deborah Perez....
Robert Latham and Kele Stewart
Miami Law's Children and Youth Law Clinic is tackling the herculean task of trying to reform Miami's child welfare system. The problems within the web of troubled...
Miami Law’s Children and Youth Law Clinic signed on to the amicus brief in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, a case to be argued in front of the Supreme Court of the United States this fall.
The case centers on...
Student and faculty mentors and their foster-care teen mentees both reap rich rewards through interaction with the First Star University of Miami Academy.
A team of student and faculty mentors have been teaching entrepreneurial skills,...