Miami Law has launched a “Defending Human Rights of Migrants Lecture Series” which consists of three fall lectures and will continue in the spring. Kele Stewart, Associate Dean for Experiential Learning believes “these issues...
Second-year law students Roman Rodriguez-Tejera, Maia Dombey, Rachel Fleishman, and Human Rights Clinic’s Associate Director Tamar Ezer had the opportunity last spring to file a submission with the African Court of Human and Peoples...
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (September 5, 2019) – Throughout the globe, petty offenses, such as loitering laws, are used to exert social control. They criminalize poverty and marginalization and police gender norms. In the...
The 2019 season's runaway hit, "What the Constitution Means to Me," is a 15-year-old girl's journey of discovery through "a chronicle of the legal subjugation of women by men," according to The New York Times.
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Gabrielle Wynn, 2L, in Geneva, Switzerland
Last month, second-year law students Gabrielle Wynn and Romney Manassa and Human Rights Clinic’s Associate Director Tamar Ezer had the opportunity to...
Maia Dombey in Geneva, Switzerland
Indigenous women in Canada experience three times more violence than other woman and are seven times more likely to be murdered, according to a 2015...
Ryan Rizzo and Roman Rodriguez-Tejera, second-year students from the Human Rights Clinic, traveled to Colorado over Fall break with Professor Carrie Bettinger-Lopez, and forensic science expert Peter Diaczuk, to get to the bottom of a...
On April 26, 2018, David Brame, then police chief of Tacoma, Washington, shot his wife in the head and then fatally shot himself in a mall parking lot. Crystal Brame died a week later. The couple had been going through a divorce, and the day...
Without question, domestic violence and sexual assault (DVSA) are pervasive in the United States, and police officers are often on the front lines of responding to this epidemic. Domestic and sexual violence calls for service comprise the...
Home Truth, the story of Jessica Lenahan’s pursuit of more effective domestic violence laws, was screened at UM’s Cosford Cinema.
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