Victoria Ronderos/ Contributing Writer Maritza Hernandez, 54, of Miami Gardens, has dealt with many injuries from torn knees to osteoarthritis to spinal stenosis and a hysterectomy. She’s also unemployed and has no insurance to cover her medical bills. Hernandez’s case is just one of the many that the university’s Health, Ethics, Law Policy Clinic works […]
Victoria Ronderos/ Contributing Writer The Health, Ethics, Law, and Policy Clinic is a program run by both the University’s College of Law and College of Medicine. Consisting of six medical students and eight law students, both colleges partner up, represent and aid those who are in need of, but can’t afford, medical and legal aid. […]
Victoria Ronderos/ Contributing Writer The College of Law has announced its new graduate degree, the Masters of Law. The degree is a one-year residential course of study for foreign graduate law students. Through the Masters of Law, or LL.M, Program, students will have a chance to study, practice, experience and understand the concepts of American […]
Victoria Ronderos/Contributing Writer This year, according to the Law School Admissions Council, law school applications have hit a 30-year low. In 2004, there were 100,000 applications, however, this year, the LSAC predicts that there will be about 54,000 applications to law schools in the country. The University of Oregon, Stanford, Northeastern, the University of Southern […]
Victoria Ronderos/Contributing Writer The world is constantly on the move, but many people in Asia are without protection when they migrate. Harvard Law School has awarded FIU Law Professor Cyra Choudhury the Santander & Institute for Global Law & Policy Doha Collaborative Research Grant. This grant will help enable Choudhury TO support her research initiative, […]
Natasha Roque/ Staff Writer The Intellectual Property Student Association and American Civil Liberties Union of FIU have partnered with the College of Law to sponsor the upcoming lecture entitled “The Internet and You” at the Modesto Maidique Campus this Wednesday, February 6, 2013 in the Rafael Diaz-Balart Hall from 12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. “Our […]
Barbara Corbellini Duarte / FIUSM Staff Students Working for Equal Rights held a forum on June 27 to provide information about the policy that President Barack Obama passed on June 15 to stop deportations and give temporary work permits to some undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria. More than 30 students and professors attended the […]
