School of Law - Human Rights Law
Immigration Clinic's Advocacy Succeeds in Reuniting Wrongfully Deported Haitian Client with Family
The client is one of six in a human rights petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Miami Law Student Publishes in Journal of Human Rights Practices
The article deals with how the weakening of environmental protections can jeopardize the rights of citizens.
Sustainable Development Goals and Racial Justice Town Hall
Working with community partners, Miami Law's Environmental Justice Clinic and Human Rights Clinic and Program are collaborating with the Black Audit Project to assess Miami-Dade County.
Human Rights Clinic Hosts United Nations Consultation on Racism and Violations of the Right to Food
The clinic, part of Miami Law's Human Rights Program, promotes social and economic justice globally and in the U.S.
Environmental Justice Clinic Tackles Food Justice in Miami, Collaborates with Human Rights Clinic
Two of Miami Law’s clinics partner to develop a study on how the current food system impacts vulnerable populations in Miami.
Human Rights Clinic and Partners Advocate on Food, Housing, Immigration, and Transgender Rights before the United Nations in Geneva
Students traveled to Geneva, Switzerland, with the clinic’s Acting Director and Acting Associate Director for the Fifth Periodic Review of the United States’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Miami Law Hosts Tenth Annual Louis Henkin Lecture Series on Human Rights with Keith Harper
The former U.S. Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Human Rights Council will explore the efficacy of the current international order and discuss if it has effectively adapted to address urgent issues facing today’s world.
Miami Law Clinic Publishes Trans Rights Report
Florida has a long history of discrimination against the LGBT+ community and has recently become a hot spot for attacks against transgender individuals with a spate of anti-trans legislation.
Anniversary Marks Legal Protection for Indigenous Women, Girls
This fall semester marks one year since the historic adoption of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women General Recommendation No. 39.
Human Rights Clinic Alumna Soars at International Human Rights Organization
Yanitza Sánchez Batista, LL.M/J.D. '22 in International Law, joins D.C.-based Institute on Race, Equality, and Human Rights after clinical training experience at Miami Law.
Miami Law and Partners Launch Juneteenth Miami Declaration on Food, Housing, and Racial Justice
The Human Rights Program and Clinic joined with other advocates to call on governments to spare no effort to right human rights wrongs.
Via U.N. Advocacy, Clinic Underscores the Need for Gender-Sensitive Drug Treatment
Students from Miami Law’s Human Rights Clinic worked on a case addressing the criminalization of drug dependence in Russia.
The White House's Gender Policy Council, Assisted by Miami Law's Caroline Bettinger-López, Releases National Plan
In 2021, the Biden Administration named Professor Bettinger-López as senior advisor to the Gender Policy Council, charging her with assisting in developing a National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence in the United States.
Students from Human Rights Clinic Contribute to U.N. Recommendations
Earlier this year, the United Nations expert on the right to food adopted a significant report on violence in the food system, highlighting how food systems produce food and amplify and produce violence with a particular impact on poor and vulnerable groups.
Food, Housing, and Racial Justice Symposium at Miami Law
Communities of color in the U.S. experience hunger, food insecurity, and homelessness at disproportionate levels despite the international legal frameworks designed to protect them.
