Sam Sachs, 3L
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a significant housing crisis at both a national and local level. Third-year Miami Law student Sam Sachs has spent the last year and a half on the...
Joy Purcell, J.D. '08
Joy Purcell, JD’ 08, senior attorney at the U.S. Department of Education in the Office of Civil Rights, jumped at the opportunity to assist unaccompanied minors in reunifying...
Daniela Torres, 2L, and Laura Silva, 3L
Miami Law has a strong focus in public interest and social justice and this was recognized when the prestigious law firm of Squire Patton Boggs honored two...
Lesly Pourcely & Mary Miller, rising 3Ls
The Manne Family Foundation recently made a gift to the HOPE Fellows Program to support Miami Law students who work within the public sector during the...
Natalie Barefoot & Kelly Cox
The HOPE Social Justice Summer Webinar kicked off with the recent Miami Scholar Public Interest Program environmental advocacy event with alumnae Natalie Barefoot...
3L Melissa Lipnick
3L Miami Scholar, Melissa Lipnick, was recently selected to receive the highly competitive Equal Justice Works Fellowship, a project-based post-grad fellowship that...
The HOPE Public Interest Resource Center hosted its annual Public Interest Recognition Ceremony on April 15th, gathering virtually with students, faculty, alumni, family and friends to recognize outstanding students who excelled in...
The University of Miami School of Law partnered with the Pulitzer Center, the Howard University School of Law and the Racial Justice initiative by the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation and its Deans’ Circle to launch "The...
Public Interest Fair on the Bricks, pre-Covid
The HOPE Public Interest Resource Center held its annual Student-to-Student Public Interest Opportunities Fair on February 10th. While the...
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,...