The University of Miami School of Law is offering an online summer course, “COVID-19: Lawyering in a Pandemic.”
The for-credit class will include two components: a doctrinal 2-credit course, taught by a different faculty...
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...
Professor Alejandro Portes
Law scholar, demographer, and sociologist, Alejandro Portes, who joined the University of Miami faculty in 2011 after decades of illuminating Miami’s cultural...
Professor Michele DeStefano
Professor Michele DeStefano, Founder and Director of LawWithoutWalls, the 10-...
Dean Anthony E. Varona, Vice Dean for Academic Affairs Andrew B. Dawson, The Honorable A. Jay Cristol, University of Miami President Julio Frenk & University of Miami Executive Vice President for Academic...
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...
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...