
Whether working in a hospital or a court room, students at the University of Miami School of Law and Miller School of Medicine are confronted with systematic policies and practices within institutions that disadvantage certain...

Andrew Carter, J.D. '06
Environmental lawyer Andrew Carter, J.D. ’06, accepts that we will be engaging in an “existential fight” for the environment for the rest of his life. However, he feels it’s...

Jason Clark,3L
Growing up in Broward County as the son of two environmental scientists, 3L and HOPE Fellow Jason Clark always had a passion for the environment, whether fishing in South Florida’s...

Professor Jessica Owley
Professor Jessica Owley has assumed the new role of faculty director for Environmental Law Program at Miami Law.
As director, Owley will enhance Miami Law’s academic...
Follow students in the University of Miami School of Law and their law professor, Jessica Owley, as they file daily dispatches from the United Nations COP25 climate change conference in Madrid.

Professor Jessica Owley
If you ask Jessica Owley to recall her favorite protest anthem, she happily breaks into song:
"There once was a union maid, she never was...

Annie Brett, J.D./Ph.D. '17
Fresh off two-year fellowships at Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions and as a fellow at the World Economic Forum Center for the 4th Industrial Revolution through a...

Elizabeth Fata Carpenter, JD ’16
Miami Public Interest Scholar and alumna Elizabeth Fata Carpenter, JD ’16, seems to have cracked the code for “walking the walk” when it comes to public interest...

In 2017, Forbes magazine ranked Miami as the No. 1 worst city for renters to live. The Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development reported that Miami had the country’s highest rate of "worst-case need" renters -- those who...

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...