Following up on Miami Law's Human Rights Clinic and Cardozo Law Institute in Holocaust and Human Rights national strategy meeting on Realizing the Rights to Food, Health and Housing in the U.S. November, a recently published...
Gita Howard, J.D. '21
Gita Howard, a HOPE Fellow who recently graduated from Miami Law, was awarded a prestigious Human Rights Program Fellowship with a placement at Human Rights First. Human...
Miami Law's Human Rights Clinic recently filed an amicus brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Blake v. City of Grants Pass, highlighting that punishing homelessness through the imposition of...
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...
Miami Law’s Human Rights Clinic worked alongside the global network of Indigenous women leaders, FIMI, and women’s rights advocacy organization, MADRE, on a submission to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of All Forms...
Gabriela Valentín Díaz
Third-year law student and Human Rights Clinic fellow, Gabriela Valentín Díaz, was recently selected to receive a prestigious Bertha Justice Fellowship, which helps train the...
Juan E. Méndez
In the recent lecture, "Human Rights and Democracy in a New Era," at the Ninth Annual Henkin Lecture on Human Rights, a former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel,...
Just as 2020 came to a close, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights issued a groundbreaking decision, taking a bold stand against the criminalization of poverty and marginalization, an area of focus for Miami Law’s Human...
3L students Jamila Flomo and Amanda Suarez who both worked on the amicus brief
Miami Law’s Human Rights Clinic, with a coalition of organizations, filed an amicus brief on September 25 in...
Since March, much of the country has, at the direction of local, state, and federal governments, stayed at home to avoid exposure to COVID-19. Yet for gender-based violence (GBV) survivors, home is often a dangerous place. According...