Alfieri Application

Name: Anthony V. Alfieri

Title: Professor and Director

School: University of Miami

Mailing Address:

Center for Ethics & Public Service

1311 Miller Drive, Room G288

Coral Gables, FL 33146

Phone: (305) 284-2735

Email: aalfieri@law.miami.edu

Home Page: www.law.miami.edu/ceps

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Summary Description:

Founded in 1996, the School of Laws Center for Ethics and Public Service is an interdisciplinary clinic devoted to the values of ethical judgment, professional responsibility, and public service in law and society. The Center provides training in ethics and professional values to the Law School and the University as well as to the Florida business, civic, education, and legal communities. The Center also provides health rights education and economic development training to low-income communities

The Center observes three guiding principles in serving the cause of ethics, professional values, and public service in law and society. The first is the principle of interdisciplinary collaboration. The Center draws on the rich, cross-disciplinary resources of the University in developing joint curricular, programmatic, research, and clinical practice ventures. The second is the principle of public-private partnership. The Center strives to reach out to both the private and nonprofit corporate community to establish partnerships in sponsoring civic education and community service programs. The third is the principle of student mentoring and leadership training. The Center seeks to train students for positions of leadership in law, private enterprise, and public service. Law student fellows and interns participate in the full range of Center practice group activities from project development to implementation.. Participation and mentoring enable students to cultivate moral maturity and professional expertise, and moreover, to inspire other students to pursue the calling of public leadership as citizen lawyers. Since 1996, the Center has helped educate over 7,000 members of the Florida bar, bench, Law School, University, and civic community.

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Program History:

Staffed by more than 70 Law School and College student fellows and interns under the direction of Professor Anthony Alfieri, Deputy Director Karen Throckmorton, Senior Fellow Harriet Roberts, Visiting Senior Fellows Ellen Catsman Freidin, Janet Reno, and Laura Walker, Clinical Fellows Troy E. Elder, Bernard P. Perlmutter, and Carolyn C. Salisbury, and Coordinator Cynthia McKenzie, the Center operates three practice groups and twelve projects in the fields of ethics education, professional training, and community service. The Bar & Bench Group offers continuing legal education training to South Florida bar associations, courts, law firms, and nonprofit groups, and ethics consulting services to private and nonprofit organizations. The Education Group teaches ethics to faculty and students in Miami-Dade County public and private schools, sponsors interdisciplinary ethics and leadership workshops at the Law School and University, and teaches an undergraduate seminar on law, public policy, and ethics in the College of Arts & Sciences. The Pro Bono Group administers the Community Economic Development and Design Project (CEDAD), a community-based education and technical assistance program furnishing economic development training to residents of low-income neighborhoods in collaboration with the School of Architecture, and the Community Health Rights Education Project (CHRE), an integrated teaching, research, and community service program providing health rights education to under-served communities in cooperation with the Schools of Nursing and Medicine.

The Center curriculum consists of four courses: Ethics and Public Service, Center Workshop I and Center Workshop II and Individual Research. The Center Workshop contains two parts: the Practicum (Practice Group and Project supervision) and the Seminar (academic readings).

Since 1996, 51 Law School student Fellows and Interns have graduated from the Center.

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Confidential Items:

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Expanded Program Description (Optional):

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Supporting Materials:

Executive Summary

Annual Report

Organizational Chart

CEPS Newsletters
--Fall 2002
--Spring 2003

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