December, 2021
Thursday, December 16, 2021
Here are some of the most-read stories on Miami Law’s website during the 2021 year.Miami Law in Top 10 in Princeton Review 2021 Best Law School Rankings
With J.D./LL.M. in Maritime Law, Descendant of Miami Law's...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
On November 15, 2021, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women issued significant recommendations to the government of Ecuador on how it can realize its human rights obligations vis-à-vis rural...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Miami Law's International Arbitration Society, in collaboration with the International Moot Court Program, recently hosted the first in-person event this semester after the pandemic. The live event discussed the use of discovery in...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
Andrew Darling, J.D.'18
Home is where the heart is – a statement best understood when speaking with Miami Law graduate, HOPE scholar/fellow, and Orange County local Andrew Darling, J.D. '18. As a social...
November, 2021
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Katie Phang, J.D. '00
Katie Phang, J.D. ’00, credits Miami Law’s Litigation Skills program with getting her career off to a strong start. “I wanted to be a trial lawyer standing in front of the jury,” she...
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Kristen Dagher and Lauren Jones
Miami Law's Center for Ethics and Public Service Health Disparities Project continues its work into the fall with two inaugural student fellows. The Health Disparities Project...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Sean Werkheiser, Shirley Grinstein, Amelia Anderson, and Sarah Hanners
Fall break is a time for Miami Law students to pause, rest, and reenergize for the second half of the semester. For many Miami Law...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
International moot court team with Paula Arias (middle)
Home to the only International Moot Court Program in the United States, Miami Law has long had an outsized presence in the world’s many moot...
October, 2021
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Martin Hunter
Martin Hunter, one of the University of Miami School of Law’s renowned adjunct professors in the White & Case International Arbitration LL.M. Program, passed away on October 9 at the age of...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Miami Law’s student organizations focus on technology law and criminal law. Recently, the Technology Law Club and Criminal Law Society hosted a discussion regarding the evolving digital landscape, delving into digital...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
Katrina Tomas, J.D. '19
Miami Law alumna and Miami Public Interest Scholar Katrina Tomas, J.D. '19, is working at the intersection of environmental justice, land use, and public interest law at a private...
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
2Ls Bailey Beauchamp and Lauren O'Neil
The strength of Miami Law's moot court team is a key reason it was ranked 21st in the U.S. for 2020-21 out of all 200 ABA-accredited law schools....
September, 2021
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
The Tax Talks, hosted by the Graduate Program in Taxation, began in August and hosts speakers from accounting firms, IRS, tax attorneys, banks, and family offices. The talks are open to all UM and Miami Law students who have an...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
3Ls Andrew Graykowski and Daniel Robinson
Third-year Miami Law students Andrew Graykowski and Daniel Robinson were recently named the winners of the University of Miami’s inaugural Health Law Writing...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Professor Charlton Copeland
Interim Dean and Visiting Professor Nell Jessup Newton announced that Professor Charlton Copeland has agreed to serve as associate dean of Intellectual Life. He will step into the...
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Miami Law's commitment to immigration law and human rights law is center stage. A federal court ruled recently that key sections of Florida’s anti-sanctuary law violate the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, delivering a...
August, 2021
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Marcia Weldon
The University of Miami School of Law recently rolled out a Transactional Skills Program with Marcia Narine Weldon at the lead.
The program enables students to leave law school with a...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
This summer, Miami Law created a new online program – U.S. Law in Action - uniquely designed for international law students and recent foreign-trained law graduates looking to develop a basic understanding of how U.S....
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
As the global pandemic descended, a sudden technological shift occurred within the practice of law. Miami Law’s Legal Profession Program at the Center for Ethics and Public Service and the Miami-Dade Trial Lawyers Association recently...
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Steven Maxwell, Erin Okuno, Odetta Clarke, and Jack Townsend
As Miami Law ramps up again for a brand-new academic year, numerous new hires round out and complement available services for students.
...
July, 2021
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotic systems are changing our society, our laws, and our social constructs at breakneck speed. We Robot, the annual, interdisciplinary conference on the emerging legal...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
Timothy Loftus, J.D. '21
Timothy Loftus, M.D., J.D. ’21, joined the law school as the Health Disparities Project Fredman Family Foundation Practitioner-in-Residence and Lecturer July 1.
Launched...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Pictured Clockwise: 2L Angelina Petrosova, Professor and Immigration Clinic Director Rebecca Sharpless, 3L Olivia Parise, and 2L Jose Ortega
A class action lawsuit of Miami Law's Immigration Clinic...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
Xavier Cortada, J.D.'91
The Environmental Law Institute recently presented Miami Law affiliated faculty member Xavier Cortada, J.D. ’91, with a 2021 National Wetlands Award for his 15 years of work...
June, 2021
Friday, June 25, 2021
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 and Kelly...
Friday, June 25, 2021
Ronnie Stevens, left, who graduated from the First Star Academy, celebrated with Kaitlyn Casanas, center, assistant program director; and Maria Pia De Castro, program director.
Photo:...
Friday, June 25, 2021
Jose Ortega, 3L
The directors of the University of Miami School of Law clinics voted to confer the 2021 Markus Award on Jose Ortega, a rising third-year student, for the exemplary work he...
Friday, June 25, 2021
This Spring Miami Law expanded its Real Property LL.M. construction curriculum with the successful new course “Emerging Legal and Commercial Trends in Construction Projects.”
As a member of the esteemed Real...
May, 2021
Thursday, May 27, 2021
Somya Priyadarshini, LL.M. '19
Name: Somya Priyadarshini
Country of Origin: India
Year of LL.M.: 2019
Law School(s) attended: Chanakya National Law University,...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Pictured L to R: the 2009 Miami Law Vis Moot team with Diogo Pereira, J.D. ’10, Anna Tumpovskiy, International Arbitration LL.M. '10, Kevin Huber, J.D. ’10, Rekha Rangachari, J.D. '10, Professor John...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Kristen Calzadilla with judges from the Third District Court of Appeal via Zoom
Kristen Calzadilla, who graduated from Miami Law in spring 2021, presented oral arguments in the Third...
Wednesday, May 26, 2021
Curtis Osceola, J.D. '18
To look at Curtis Esteban Osceola today standing in court in a sharp blue suit, white shirt, and blue silk repp tie, there is little vestige of the skinny 18-year-...
April, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
In a year like no other, the Miami Law Explainer delivered the sixth season of the law school's popular podcast where expert faculty dive into the headlines, sometimes to the sound of barking dogs and wobbly internet connections. As we...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
Commencement Speaker Laurie Silvers, J.D. '77
It was a moonshot idea, and in the beginning, the vision Laurie Silvers, B.A. ’74, J.D. ’77, and her husband, Mitchell Rubenstein, had of starting a...
Thursday, April 22, 2021
When natural disasters strike, neighborhoods distanced from the coastline and sitting at the highest elevations remain the most protected. However, this makes them a prime target for climate gentrification.
Climate...
March, 2021
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Craig Kronenthal, J.D. '09, and Sara Gonzalez-Rothi, J.D. '09
President Joe Biden recently named Sara Gonzalez-Rothi, J.D. '09, as the White House's first adviser focused solely on water.
...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
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...
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Yelan Escalona, 3L (top left); Katie Johnson, 2L (top right) and Andrea Ochoa Lozano, 3L (bottom).
In mid-February, a little over a month before a scheduled three-day arbitration hearing against a...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021
Noozyara Eshaba, Natalia Jaramillo , Arundathi Venkataraman, Ana Sarmento, & Thaís Dourado
This month, for Women’s History Month, the White & Case International Arbitration...
February, 2021
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
The PreLaw Magazine Winter 2021 issue has once again given high numbers to Miami Law in a variety of areas.
‘A’ for Tech Law
The law is increasingly tech-driven - from the way law firms do business, to the way...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Laura and Judd Zebersky, J.D. '93
When we last left the Toymakers Zebersky "Lawyers in Toyland," in October of 2014, the Miami Law alums were raising three children, designing licensed toy lines and...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Cristian Zannier
Cristian Zannier has been named the 2020-2021 Young ICCA Full-tuition Scholarship winner. Born in Bolivia but raised in Chile, Zannier is the first Young ICCA Scholar to...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Known for its strong trial advocacy programs, Miami Law's trial team of Ashley Meyer and Andres Chinchilla, both 2Ls, made it to the Region 6 finals of the National Trial Competition (NTC). Hosted by the Texas Young Lawyers Association...
January, 2021
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Jaret Davis, J.D.'99 & B.A.'96
Jaret Davis, J.D. ’99 and B.A. ’96, saw 2020 as an inflection point for social justice in the United States. In the wake of the murder of 46-year-old George Floyd in...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
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, family law, and...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Elena Fontanelli, LL.M. '18
Name: Elena Fontanelli
Year of International Arbitration LL.M.: 2018
Country of Origin: Italy
Law School attended: University of...
Friday, January 22, 2021
Professor Kunal Parker
Many of President Biden’s day one executive order targeted turning back the previous administration’s immigration policies. Professor Kunal Parker, author of Making Foreigners:...