A Grade
Pre-Law Magazine gave us an 'A-' for Human Rights Law in fall 2024 and in fall 2023, and fall 2022. In addition they named us a Top 7 Law School for Human Rights Law in fall 2020.
The field of human rights law encompasses a wide array of topics. Miami Law students can pursue their own niche with our vast interdisciplinary offerings and complement their study of human rights law with courses in constitutional law, criminal law, family law, immigration law, international law, real estate law, and social justice and public interest law. Students learn to use the law to advance the rights of individuals and communities—from our own backyard in Miami to locations across the globe. Our students have a plethora of opportunities to gain hands-on advocacy experience. With our Human Rights Program and robust Human Rights Clinic and several other clinics and practicums directly addressing human rights issues, Miami Law allows its students to represent populations in need as part of their upper-level work. Given its large immigrant population and socioeconomic diversity, Miami provides an ideal setting to springboard your legal career in the United States or abroad. Students also gain access to our deep network of human rights lawyers, advocates, and scholars.
Pre-Law Magazine gave us an 'A-' for Human Rights Law in fall 2024 and in fall 2023, and fall 2022. In addition they named us a Top 7 Law School for Human Rights Law in fall 2020.
Miami Law hosts the annual The Louis Henkin Lecture Series on Human Rights named for the prominent law professor at Columbia University School of Law who was one of the founders of the academic study of human rights.
Our Human Rights Clinic works on projects and cases including United Nations Advocacy for Indigenous Peoples and submitted reports to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on environmental destruction and gender violence in Cuba, the northern U.S., Canada, Brazil, and more.
*Course list is not exhaustive and does not set out a path of study.Courses*
The Human Rights Clinic provides students with experience in cutting-edge human rights litigation and advocacy at the local, national, regional, and international levels. Initiatives have focused on:
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Clinics, Projects, Practicums
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Joint Degrees
Students engage with the United Nations, Inter-American Court and Commission on Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights, and other tribunals.(PICTURED: Professor Tamar Ezer and Gabrielle Wynn, J.D. ’20 participate in Estonia’s review before the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.)
The only one of its kind in the U.S., Miami Law offers a unique and comprehensive International Moot Court Program in which students travel and compete, in Spanish and English, in competitions around the world. Students advocate the different sides of a case and analyze the problem, identify the legal issues, research the law, write the briefs and orally present it to a tribunal. There are opportunities to particulate in human rights moot court competitions, these have included:
**List is not exhaustive and is intended to provide examples of past externships and internships.
Human Rights Program Events - Renowned human rights scholars, lawyers and advocates from around the world regularly visit Miami Law, giving public lectures, attending conferences and meeting with students and faculty. HOPE Public Interest Resource Center - Home to many opportunities to do human rights work nationally and internationally, HOPE also regularly hosts information sessions on landing a job, fellowship or internship in the public interest and in human rights and supports students looking to work in the area of human rights and offers these programs: