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Human Rights Law

Panel highlights Cuban repression at School of Law's Human Rights Symposium event

The School of Law co-sponsored the "Cuban Voices: Rights, Reality, and the Rule of Law" program, which included a panel discussion moderated by Interim Dean Patricia Sánchez Abril.

https://news.miami.edu/stories/2025/11/keeping-alive-the-flames-of-resistance.html


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Global gavel: Miami serves as hemispheric hub for human rights law

The School of Law hosted a weeklong Human Rights in the Americas Symposium featuring the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/12/miami-serves-as-hemispheric-hub-for-human-rights-law.html




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Professor Irwin Stotzky discusses Haiti’s perpetual crisis on Miami Law’s Explainer podcast

Professor Stotzky is a human rights law expert and the author of two books on Haiti.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/11/irwin-stotzky-discusses-haitis-perpetual-crisis.html




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School of Law recognized as national innovator, sweeps top marks in 2025 rankings

preLaw and National Jurist magazines spotlight the school's pioneering AI lab and award A- grades in five key practice areas and success in law firm employment.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/10/law-school-recognized-as-national-innovator.html


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University of Miami School of Law to host major human rights symposium

The weeklong event will feature hearings by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and expert panels on critical issues facing the Americas.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/10/human-rights-in-the-americas-symposium.html


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Students take top honors with the Clinical Legal Education Association Award

Students from the Human Rights Clinic received the CLEA Outstanding Team award, while Gregory Beeson and Eyga Williamson earned the CLEA Outstanding Externship Student Award.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/05/students-take-top-honors-with-the-clinical-legal-education-association-award.html


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Director of the Human Rights Clinic gives talks in Germany and University of Michigan

Professor Caroline Bettinger-López’s scholarship, practice, and teaching deal with international human rights law and policy advocacy.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/05/director-0f-the-human-rights-clinic-gives-talks-in-germany-and-university-of-michigan.html


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School of Law students learn about corporate accountability from farmworkers

Human Rights in the Field: students interested in human rights visit tomato fields and workers' coalition in Immokalee.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/04/students-learn-about-corporate-accountability-from-farmworkers.html


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Associate director of the Human Rights Clinic participates in podcast on the housing crisis

Tamar Ezer’s research focuses on the intersection of health and human rights, housing and homelessness, access to justice, women’s rights, children’s rights, and human rights pedagogy.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/03/associate-director-of-the-human-rights-clinic-participates-in-podcast-on-the-housing-crisis.html


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Human Rights Clinic integrates art and legal advocacy, drawing a "red line" from Chicago to Miami

Law students collaborate with a Chicago art project that connects professional artists with artists who have lived experience of homelessness.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/03/human-rights-clinic-integrates-art-and-legal-advocacy.html


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Professor Caroline Bettinger-López co-chairs ASIL webinar on advancing gender justice

The online event gathered experts on gender justice and international law to take stock of how the Biden-Harris administration has approached gender justice.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2025/01/caroline-bettinger-lopez-co-chairs-webinar-on-advancing-gender-justice.html


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PreLaw magazine bestows high marks on the School of Law in legal technology, moot court, and more

The legal education magazine has once again singled the law school out for accolades in their Back-to-School 2024 issue.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/11/pre-law-magazine-bestows-high-marks-on-school-of-law.html


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Faculty director of the Human Rights Program participates in International Congress on Law and Mental Health

Health law and human rights expert Tamar Ezer presents two lectures in Barcelona.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/10/faculty-director-of-the-human-rights-program-participates-in-international-congress-on-law-and-mental-health.html


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Human Rights and Environmental Justice clinics address racial justice before the U.N.

A collaboration on a racial justice assessment in Miami-Dade County revealed critical insights, leading to a Miami Law student presenting in Geneva.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/09/human-rights-and-environmental-justice-clinics-address-racial-justice-before-the-un.html


Human Rights Law

The Alan S. Becker and Gary A. Poliakoff Preeminent Leaders in Law Speaker Series

The speaker series presents the 12th Annual Louis Henkin Lecture on Human Rights which brings Julissa Reynoso, former U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra, to the School of Law.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/09/becker-and-poliakoff-and-louis-henkin-lecture-to-be-held-at-miami-law.html


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