MIAMILAW UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI SCHOOL OF LAW
Nell Jessup Newton
Interim Dean and Visiting Professor University of Miami School of Law Dear Alumni and Friends of the University of Miami School of Law, As Thanksgiving nears, I am filled with gratitude. Although I have only served as Interim Dean of the School of Law for a few months, I am immensely proud of the work that we are doing here at Miami Law and excited about the opportunity to help the school move forward.
STUDENTS
Students are at the heart of our mission—our reason for existing and the focus of our attention. Every day I am inspired by our students’ commitment, innovation, and dedication. Miami Law’s future is bright, and our students continued to excel through the pandemic—in the classroom, in the work of our impactful clinics, and in the community. Consider:
Students in our Immigration Clinic recently helped overturn an anti-immigration law in federal court. Furthermore,
students in the Innocence Clinic partnered with the Innocence Project of Florida and assisted in overturning a wrongful conviction. It is not surprising that our law school’s success in clinical legal education earned it a Top 25 U.S. News ranking in 2021. Miami Law was proud to welcome 72 LLM students from 36 countries. Two of the LLM students are from our new dual degree agreement with the Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra in the Dominican Republic. This year’s JD class includes 393 students from 33 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and 10 countries. Because of Miami Law’s commitment to training talented international students and dedication to international and comparative law scholarship, I am proud to announce that the law school is launching a Doctor of Juridical Science Program (SJD) in the Fall 2022 semester. Miami Law will join a group of select U.S.