Litigation, Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Develop Your Advocacy Skills through Practice

Miami Law offers an impressive range of lecture and seminar courses in the fields of litigation, arbitration, and dispute resolution. Take advantage of a plethora of opportunities to engage in these fields and hone your craft in any of our 9 clinics and 65+ experiential courses. Our students have an opportunity to take their academic knowledge further with our unparalleled Litigation Skills program which features a semester-long course that uniquely covers pre-trial and trial advocacy, beginning with the filling of a lawsuit and culminating in a mock trial. Beyond the classroom, join Miami Law’s mock trial, moot court, or international moot court team—the only one of its kind in the nation. Students have unmatched opportunities to work side-by-side with faculty, practitioners, and clients via externships and practicums. These experiences provide students access to dozens of agencies and courts - state and federal, trial and appellate, bankruptcy, immigration, family, and more.

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Courses

Note: Course list is not exhaustive and does not set out a path of study.

• Advanced Appellate Advocacy I and II
• Advanced Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: Design Systems
• Best Practices in Pretrial Litigation in the Federal Courts
• Civil Rights Litigation
• Civil Rights in the Supreme Court
• Class Action Litigation
• Communications and Negotiations in Entertainment and Sports
• Complex International Negotiations
• Complex Issues in High-Profiles and High-Net Worth Divorces
• Conflict of Laws
• Criminal Civil Rights Investigations and Prosecutions
• Criminal Evidence
• Criminal Procedure
• Criminal Procedure Adjudication
• Criminal Prosecution & Defense Lawyering: Situational Ethics in the Adversarial System of Justice
• Damages in International Arbitration
• Dispute Resolution Technology and the Digital Economy
• Drafting Complex Arbitration Clauses
• Electronic Discovery

• Advanced Appellate Advocacy I and II
• Advanced Oral Advocacy in International Arbitration
• Alternative Dispute Resolution: Design Systems
• Best Practices in Pretrial Litigation in the Federal Courts
• Civil Rights Litigation
• Civil Rights in the Supreme Court
• Class Action Litigation
• Communications and Negotiations in Entertainment and Sports
• Complex International Negotiations
• Complex Issues in High-Profiles and High-Net Worth Divorces
• Conflict of Laws
• Criminal Civil Rights Investigations and Prosecutions
• Criminal Evidence
• Criminal Procedure
• Criminal Procedure Adjudication
• Criminal Prosecution & Defense Lawyering: Situational Ethics in the Adversarial System of Justice
• Damages in International Arbitration
• Dispute Resolution Technology and the Digital Economy
• Drafting Complex Arbitration Clauses
• Electronic Discovery
• Environmental Appellate Advocacy
• Federal Arbitration Act
• Federal Courts
• Florida Civil Procedure
• Florida Constitutional Law
• Florida Family Law: Complex Financial Issues
• Florida Legal Research Techniques
• Forensics of Advocacy in International Arbitration I
• Globalization & Arbitration
• ICSID Practice and Procedure
• International Arbitration and ESG: Environment, Social and Governance Issues
• International Arbitration and the New York Convention
• International Arbitration in Latin America & the Caribbean
• International Commercial Arbitration: A U.S. Perspective
• International Energy Arbitration
• International Moot Court I & II
• International Sports Arbitration
• Introduction to Death Penalty Litigation
• Investment Arbitration
• Judicial Writing
• Law Practice: Systemic Advocacy
• Legal Communication and Research I & II
• Litigation Skills I
• Litigation Skills II: Criminal
• Litigation Skills II: Business
• Litigation Skills Externship
• Maritime Arbitration
• Mediation
• Mediation Advocacy
• Memos, Pleadings, and Motions
• Mindfulness and Negotiations
• Negotiation Skills
• Patent Prosecution
• Preparing the Corporate Client for Litigation
• Scientific Evidence
• Social Justice Advocacy
• Spanish for Lawyers I & II
• Substantive Criminal Law
• Systemic Advocacy and Complex Actions
• The Criminalization of Homelessness: Causes, Policy and Practical Lawyering
• Topics in Florida Practice
• Trademark Management and Business Strategy
• Trial Litigation
• UN Climate Negotiations
• Writing for the Judiciary

International Moot Court Program: 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. In essence, the students learn how to litigate a case in front of an international tribunal doing what an attorney does in real life. Past competitions have included:

• Competencia UBA-Rosario International Commercial Arbitration
• Frankfurt Investment Arbitration Moot - Frankfurt, Germany
• International and European Tax Moot Court - Leuven, Belgium
• International Criminal Court Trial Competition - The Hague, Netherlands
• International Maritime Law Arbitration Moot - Singapore, Australia, or UK
• La Competición Internacional de Arbitraje y Derecho Mercantil (Moot Madrid) - Madrid, Spain
• Willem C. Vis Arbitral Moot - Vienna, Austria

• Class Action and Complex Litigation Forum- This event offers a unique perspective for attorneys looking to understand the latest issues and topics associated with multi-district class actions and complex litigation.
• HOPE Public Interest Resource Center - This center runs the HOPE Fellows Program in which students have the opportunity to create summer "dream jobs" in the public interest arena, often in Offices of the Public Defender.
• International Arbitration Institute - The International Arbitration Institute is an embodiment of the University of Miami’s long tradition of engagement with the law of arbitration. The Institute strives not only for progress through the education of the new generation of arbitration lawyers, but also for progress through research in international arbitration. 

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