A team of law students successfully secured a bond for a young mother of three, a domestic violence survivor who was detained by ICE, allowing her to reunite with her children.
Students from the Immigration Clinic successfully helped a Bahamian woman remain in the United States with her young teenage son.
The Immigration Clinic suffered a devastating loss when the court ruled that their client was ineligible for asylum and ordered her to be deported.
Immigration law expert Professor Sharpless spoke at the AILA Law Journal Symposium, Harvard Law School, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Since arriving at UM, newly elected SBA President Andrew Co has joined Miami Law's International Moot Court Program and Immigration Clinic to help amplify underrepresented voices.
The Immigration Clinic offers students experiential opportunities to advocate for immigrants in complex immigration proceedings.
The client is one of six in a human rights petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
The federal government was seeking to deport their client, a woman from Colombia who had come to the United States as a teen and has eight children, all U.S. citizens.
Professor Sharpless is the founding director of the Immigration Clinic.
Now a first-year associate at Greenberg Traurig, Blanca Alcaraz Serrano aims to specialize in financial tech regulatory work while remaining passionate about immigration law.
Students Andy Co and Gianna Balli successfully litigated the Clinic’s first merits hearing in front of the Miami Immigration Court, gaining valuable hands-on skills.
Rachel Maremont supervises students, engages in coalition work with other advocates, and participates in the clinic's federal court litigation.
The articles, published in the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and in Ethnic and Racial Studies, are now available on-line.
Students in experiential learning programs handle real-world cases and gain hands-on knowledge.
Students in experiential learning programs handle real-world cases and gain hands-on knowledge.