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.
Miami Law Professor Kunal Parker discusses the lifting of Title 42 - which gave authorities health emergency powers - and how that might spur a flood of migrants on the southern border.
Associate Dean of Intellectual Life Charlton Copeland interviews Professor Emeritus David Abraham about his paper on group rights and individual minority rights in immigrant societies on Season 10, Episode 12 of the Explainer podcast.
Abigail Fleming and Alejandro Portes joined public and private-sector leaders from the Americas who discussed the confluence of concerns and opportunities challenging the hemisphere.
Miami Law's Immigration Clinic traveled to Baker County Detention Center in Macclenny, Florida, west of Jacksonville, to help detained men and women determine if they have defenses to deportation.