Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Children & Youth Law Clinic Bernard Perlmutter recently published an article with Professor of Practice Xavier Cortada in the Clinical Law Review. The article, “'Communities that Care': Incorporating Socially Engaged Artistic Practices Into Clinical Legal Education,” discusses the Children & Youth Law Clinic’s legal-artistic collaborations with Cortada, and more broadly, the incorporation of social artistic practices into clinical legal education. The article can be downloaded here.
Perlmutter helped establish the Children & Youth Law Clinic at Miami Law in 1996. He teaches Family Law, Transnational Family Law, Children and the Law, and New Directions in Lawyering: Interviewing, Counseling, and Attorney-Client Relational Skills. He teaches and supervises second- and third-year law students who handle cases involving abused, abandoned, and neglected children and adolescents in dependency, foster care, adoption, public benefits, health care, mental health, disability, education, and immigration matters, in addition to appellate, legislative, and administrative advocacy, and law reform litigation.
Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American artist working across disciplines to engage communities. He serves as Professor of Practice at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History (with secondary appointments in the university’s Miller School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and School of Law), and Artist-in-Residence at Pinecrest Gardens, where his studio, gallery, and socially engaged art practice are based. He was recently appointed by Mayor Daniella Levine Cava to serve as the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for Miami-Dade County.
