School of Law - Human Rights Law

Human Rights Law

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


Human Rights Law

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




Human Rights Law

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




Human Rights Law

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


Human Rights Law

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


Human Rights Law

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


Human Rights Law

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

Cultural intellectual property, human rights, and human development expert joins faculty

Jan Osei-Tutu co-developed the IP program at FIU, where she taught trademarks, fashion, and design law.

https://news.miami.edu/law/stories/2024/08/cultural-intellectual-property-human-rights-and-human.html