Last Updated: February 20, 2013

Mediasite Technical Requirements

**Please note that live streaming is not available for iOS devices such as an iPad or iPhone.  Playback, however, does work on iOS devices.**

If you are having technical issues, the UF Help Desk is available at (352) 392-4357 to troubleshoot any issues with the computer.

For more information about the Mediasite Player, click here.

Before you begin, here are some things to consider:

• 1. Silverlight: You will need to have the Microsoft Silverlight plugin installed.  Instructions and download link may be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/getsilverlight/Get-Started/Install/Default.aspx
• 2. Pop-Up Blockers: Remember to configure pop-up blockers to allow site pop-ups. Otherwise, presentations will not appear. Each browser is different for allowing pop-ups to come through, but there should be a prompt informing you of when a pop-up has been blocked and give you an opportunity to let that pop-up through.
• 3. Test if your Mediasite is running properly:  http://hosted.mediasite.com/mediasite/SilverlightPlayer/Default.aspx?peid=835010e23b5541829c680f1ecfe6a645

Windows requirements

• Microsoft Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2003
• Microsoft Internet Explorer® 7.0 or later, Firefox® 3.6 or later, or Google™ Chrome (Internet Explorer Preferred)
• Microsoft Silverlight® 5.0 plugin
• Broadband Internet connection (recommended)

Mac requirements

• Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8 or later
• Apple Safari™ 2.0.4 or later or Firefox 3.6 or later
• Microsoft Silverlight 5.0 plugin
• Broadband Internet connection (recommended)

iPad requirements (on-demand playback only)*

• iPad, iPad2, or iPad3
• iOS 4.3 or later
• Apple Mobile Safari™
• Wi-Fi or cellular data connection (3G or higher)

iPhone/iPod requirements (on-demand playback only)*

• iPhone 4.0 or later, iPod Touch 4th generation or later
• iOS 4.3 or later
• Apple Mobile Safari
• Mediasite iPhone/iPod app (free download available from the Apple app store)
• Wi-Fi connection

Linux requirements

• SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop 10, openSUSE® 11.0 or later, Ubuntu® 8.04, or Fedora® Core 9
• Firefox 2.0 or 3.0 depending on Linux operating system
• Moonlight™1.0. Moonlight 1.0 supports the operating systems and platforms listed here.
• Microsoft Media Pack for Moonlight
• Broadband Internet connection

Notes:

• Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems. For more information about Moonlight go here.
• Mediasite will no longer support playback of Windows Media Format on the Linux platform. Instead, Mediasite will support on-demand presentation playback of H.264 content packaged as MP4. You will need to install the codecs required for H.264 content playback. In addition, you must use a browser that supports H.264 codecs with the HTML5 media element. For more information, go here.

Blackberry requirements (on-demand playback only)*

• Blackberry devices running Blackberry OS 7.0 or later
• Playbooks devices running QNX
• Blackberry browser
• Wi-Fi or cellular data connection (3G or higher)

Android requirements (on-demand playback only)*

• Android™ 4.0 or later
• Android browser
• Wi-Fi or cellular data connection (3G or higher)

Additional considerations

To view Mediasite presentations using Firefox over Windows Vista or Windows XP:

• Use the ActiveX Plug-in you are prompted to download when you first attempt to view a presentation.
  OR
• Copy the Windows XP plug-in dlls to your machine following these instructions.

If you are having problems and your computer meets the system requirements, visit Sonic Foundry’s Troubleshooting Mediasite Playback web resource for tips on troubleshooting your computer and more information on Player features.

* Items with an asterisk indicate that the video will not work as a live stream on these devices.

When: February 5, 2013 at 12:30 p.m.

Where: Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens will be visiting UF Law, Tuesday, Feb. 5. The conversation is expected to cover a number of issues, including proportionality in sentencing, the Justice’s proposal for an amendment of the Supremacy Clause of Article VI of the U.S. Constitution, and the Justice’s criminal law jurisprudence. The discussion will be facilitated by a panel of UF Law faculty members. It will be held in the Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard from 12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Tickets are required to attend the discussion.

Students tickets are available in Student Affairs and faculty and staff may pick up tickets from Doris Perron in the dean’s suite. In the event of rain, Stevens’ talk will be moved to the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, HOL 180, and the first 180 people who pick up tickets will be allowed into the classroom to watch the discussion. The event will also be webcast live. The advocacy center will be made available for the streamed event.

No book bags or other large bags will be allowed through the security point. No re-entry into the courtyard will be permitted.

A webcast is available here: Supreme Court Justice Stevens Webcast. For those of you experiencing technical difficulties, the solutions to the most common problems include updating Silverlight or clearing your internet cache.

The Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series was created in early 2007 by Lewis Schott (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1946) of Palm Beach, Fla., as a tribute to his fellow UF Law alumnus, former UF President Marshall Criser (JD 51). The goal of the speaker series is to host prestigious national and international speakers every year on topics of particular interest to law students. Past speakers have included Justice Clarence Thomas and former ABA President Stephen Zack (JD 71).

Resources:

• 2012 Criser Lecture Program

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Lucius Durham Battle 1918-2008

Class of 1946

Served as Naval Officer during World War II in the Pacific; reorganized the State Department as top assistant to Secretaries of State Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk. Served as Ambassador to Egypt (1964 – 1967) and twice as Assistant Secretary of State; founding Chairman of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (1980) and Chairman of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (1995-2008).

Luke Battle “had nerves of steel, a sense of purpose and a Southern accent,” Secretary of State Dean Acheson said of his “indispensable aide.” The Dawson, Ga.-native grew up in Bradenton, Fla., where his father owned a hardware store. Battle earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and joined the Navy where he served in the Pacific Theater during World War II. He earned his degree from UF Law in 1946 and in 1949 he married Betty Davis. By then, Battle had embarked on a career in the Foreign Service at the height of the Cold War.

Battle went to work in the State Department in 1946, helping administer the Marshall Plan, the American aid program to rebuild Europe immediately after the war. Battle was at the heart of U.S. government diplomacy as top assistant to Acheson and later Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He reorganized State Department operations in the 1960s and was a key figure in Middle Eastern diplomacy, chosen by President Lyndon B. Johnson as ambassador to Egypt and as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.

After a stint as vice president of the Colonial Williamsburg project in Virginia, Battle rejoined the State Department in 1961 and was assigned the task of shaking up the agency. President John F. Kennedy was said to be unhappy with the State Department’s lack of urgency, and its attachment to tradition. Rusk assigned Battle to the job, and he developed a 24-hour monitoring system to track global events and relay crises to top government officials. From 1962 to 1964, Battle served as assistant secretary of state for culture and education.

Battle served as ambassador to Egypt from 1964 to 1967. At the time, Egypt was known as the United Arab Republic under the military dictatorship of Gamal Abdel Nasser Egypt, who was allied with the Soviet Union. When the American embassy was nearly burned down and partially looted by anti-American protesters Battle was on the scene fighting the fire with embassy Marines. A Washington Post obituary reported that in a formal protest to the Egyptian government, Battle complained that he arrived before firefighters even though he lived a quarter-mile away and the firehouse was 200 yards from the embassy. Battle arranged a 1966 tour of the United States by Anwar Sadat, a top general and aide to Nasser. Sadat succeeded Nasser as president of Egypt, and he tilted the nation’s policies toward U.S. interests and signed a peace treaty with Israel.

Battle left the government in 1968 to become vice president of the Communication  Satellite Corporation. He remained active in Middle Eastern affairs as founding chairman of the Foreign Policy Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in 1980 and by serving as chairman of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations from 1995 through 2008.

Rebecca Bowles Hawkins 1910-2000

Class of 1935

Became first female Assistant Attorney General in Florida in 1948 and headed office’s opinions division (1969-1976); full-time Research Assistant for Florida Supreme Court Justice B.K. Roberts; served as President of Florida (1954-1955) and National Association of Women Lawyers (1960-1961); named 1997 UF Alumnae of Outstanding Achievement.

When Rebecca Bowles Hawkins began her 1L year at UF Law in 1932 the legal profession was, to put it mildly, dominated by men. During her criminal law course, Hawkins recalled being excused from class the day the professor lectured about the legal theory of rape. “It would have been embarrassing for me as well as embarrassing for the students,” she explained in a 1994 interview.

Hawkins was the only woman in the class, and the male students “just sort of accepted me,” she said. Figuring she had to set an example as one of the few women admitted to the law school – and 15 years before women were enrolled as University of Florida undergraduates – Hawkins studied hard.

“I was second in the class,” she said. “I felt as though it was incumbent upon me to make a very good showing since I was entering a field that was unusual for women.”

Hawkins continued to set an example as she launched a career blazing paths for women in Florida’s legal profession. Hawkins rose to become the first assistant attorney general of Florida. She argued criminal cases before the state Supreme Court and later served as the long-time chief of the Attorney General Office’s Opinions Division. As assistant to Justice B.K. Roberts (JD 28), she was also the first full-time researcher employed by the Florida Supreme Court.

Hawkins was born in Big Sandy, Tenn., and moved to Hastings, Fla., when she was 10. She described an idyllic childhood where her father owned a general store and loved to go to the beach and fish while her mother was a homemaker.

Hawkins struggled in a small Bradenton law firm right out of college where she made so little money that her parents continued to support her. She switched over to secretarial work for a salary boost. Hawkins moved to Washington, D.C., was married and then divorced after the war. Her son Jonathan Marks came back with her to Florida, and she soon moved to Tallahassee and went to work in the Florida Attorney General’s office. In 1948, Attorney General J. Tom Watson appointed her a full assistant attorney general.

Hawkins led other women in the legal profession as president of the Florida Association of Women Lawyers, which was followed by a term as president of the National Association of Women Lawyers. She also served as a member of the National Bar Association House of Delegates.

In 1994, Hawkins endowed a $50,000 scholarship fund for women attending UF Law. The Ernest B. and Estelle Pierce Bowles Memorial Scholarship honors her parents, the people who believed “(I) could do anything I wanted to do.”

Gerald A. Williams 1950-2010

Class of 1975           

Served as president of the UF Law Black Law Student Association and was among the first African-American graduates of UF Law; Served as Staff Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board before establishing Haygood & Williams, P.A. in West Palm Beach (1981); served as Counsel to numerous public schools in South Florida, including the Palm Beach County School Board until 2010.

“It is not enough to want to be good; to be successful one must aspire to be great.” This was the motto of Gerald A. Williams. Born Oct. 9, 1950, in Pensacola, Fla., to the late Fred L. and Ophelia M. Williams, Gerald Williams was conditioned for greatness at an early age. Nurtured through two decades of profound social and cultural change, he emerged as an inspiring and transformational leader.

Mr. Williams was among the first African-Americans to attend the all-white A.V. Clubbs Junior High School in Escambia County, Fla. “That (experience) developed my concept of survival. People didn’t want us there … (But) they didn’t have a choice but to respect me,” Williams told the South Florida Business Journal in 1992. “That time helped me understand the good and bad about this country. There’s more good than bad.”

After graduating from Pensacola High School, Williams earned a political science degree from the University of Tennessee in 1972. He served as chief justice of the honor court as an undergraduate, which awakened his passion for the law and the impact it has on society. In 1975, he earned his degree from UF Law and was among the college’s first African-American graduates.

Williams began his legal career as a staff attorney with the Florida Public Employees Relations Commission and served as staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board. In 1978, he joined the fourth largest school district in the nation, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, as assistant special counsel.

In 1981, he relocated to West Palm Beach, Fla., and co-founded Haygood & Williams, P.A. with law school classmate J. Michael Haygood. Williams practiced labor and employment law, and their partnership began with just four clients. By 1987, the Miami Review hailed Haygood & Williams as the largest all African-American law firm in South Florida. In 1992, the law firm merged with Atlanta-based Mack, Williams, Haygood & McLean, P.A. Williams was now managing partner of Florida operations for one of the largest African-American-controlled firms in the country.

In 1997, Williams left private practice and returned to Miami-Dade County Public Schools where he served as chief labor counsel and chief officer of labor and legislative relations. In 2001, he was recruited by the superintendent of the School District of Palm Beach County where he rose to chief counsel.

In 2009, Florida Trend Magazine and his peers recognized him as one of Florida’s Legal Elite. He was named one of the top government attorneys in the State of Florida.

In addition to his stellar legal career, Williams was devoted to family, loyal to friends and committed to his community through leadership positions in professional and civic organizations, including as general counsel for the Virgil Hawkins Florida Chapter of the National Bar Association.

On October 12, 2012, the University of Florida Levin College of Law explored diversity in the legal profession and celebrated the 50th anniversary of the graduation of W. George Allen (JD 62), who helped pave the way for generations of students in Florida by becoming the first African-American to graduate from the University of Florida and UF Law.

Press Release

Click here to view the press release for the event

Event Program

Click here to download the event program.

Video

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Leadership and Law:

Diverse Perspectives on the Role of Race and Participation in Professional Legal Organizations

Event Information

Click here to read more about this event.

Video

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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas returned to UF Law to deliver this year’s Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture in Law on Friday, Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. in the Marcia Whitney Schott Courtyard.

A webcast is available here: http://mediasite.video.ufl.edu/Mediasite/Play/2b954b0b758447ac855a7b19730e5dad1d.  For those of you experiencing technical difficulties, the solutions to the most common problems include updating Silverlight or clearing your internet cache.

The Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Lecture Series was created in early 2007 by Lewis Schott (B.A. 1943, LL.B. 1946) of Palm Beach, Fla., as a tribute to his fellow UF Law alumnus, former UF President Marshall Criser (JD 51). The goal of the speaker series is to host prestigious national and international speakers every year on topics of particular interest to law students. Past speakers have included Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens (ret.), Justice Clarence Thomas and former ABA President Stephen Zack (JD 71).

Resources:

• 2012 Criser Lecture Program

High Resolution Images:

(High Resolution versions available inside of the gallery)

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We already have an excellent law school. But what will it take to make us a truly great law school? The formula is actually quite simple. First, we must continue to enroll outstanding students. After all, our students are the future leaders of our profession, and they are the citizen-lawyers who will make lasting contributions to our communities, state and nation.

Second, we must recruit and retain an outstanding faculty — a community of highly skilled teachers who both instruct and inspire our students, and whose research and law reform efforts advance the welfare of our society and our system of justice.

Third, we must acquire the resources we need — both public and private — to do our job at the highest level. We cannot successfully compete at the very highest level if our perstudent spending remains at a very low level. Fortunately, as I reported to you in the fall, we are making progress in this area, thanks in large part to the generous support of our alumni and friends.

One of the reasons we must make dramatic improvements in our resource picture soon involves a historic challenge facing our college. During the next five years, at least 12 of our tenured faculty will retire. Among these faculty members are many individuals who inspired, motivated and prepared you for your careers — such as Fletcher Baldwin, Mike Gordon, Jerry Israel, Joe Little, Doug Miller, Jim Nicholas, Mike Oberst, Don Peters, David Richardson, Mary Twitchell and Walter Weyrauch.

The good news is we are optimistic many of these esteemed individuals will remain active in the intellectual life of our law school community. But the fact remains these retirements represent a full 20 percent of the tenured faculty — and some very big shoes to fill. Yet at the same time, this transition presents us with an opportunity that comes along only rarely in the life of an institution — to build the faculty that will lead our college for the next few decades.

One of the great stories in the history of our college is how a partnership of alumni, university leaders and the state faced the challenge of accreditation-threatening deficiencies in our facilities and created what is now regarded as among the very best academic space in the nation. We have already demonstrated with our recent hiring of both experienced and entry level faculty that we are able to recruit the top teachers and scholars in the nation to the University of Florida. I am confident we will meet the challenge presented by the forthcoming retirements of many distinguished faculty, and we will use this as an opportunity to build a law faculty that is second to none. Thank you for your help and support in this effort.

- Robert H. Jerry, II
Dean; Levin, Mabie and Levin Professor

As plans were being made for Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s visit to the law school, third year student Will Sexton sent me an e-mail expressing his excitement about her visit. He told me about a letter he had written to Justice Ginsburg in the ninth grade as part of an American Government class assignment.

She sent him a personal response, which included the challenge to “think of your children and grandchildren to come, and do your part to make society as you would want it to be for them.”

That experience became a turning point in Will’s life, and today he does have plans to make society better, just like another law student who graduated almost 60 years ago. This is the Florida alumnus Justice Ginsburg came to campus to honor on September 21. She wanted to assist us in paying tribute to Chesterfield Smith (JD 48), one of our most important alumni, one of the legal profession’s greatest leaders, one of the nation’s greatest citizen-lawyers and one of the greatest role models for our students to be found anywhere.

Justice Ginsburg felt strongly about being part of the dedication of the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom. The classroom completes the construction and renovation project we dedicated in ceremonies one year ago. As was the case then, this much-needed facility would not have been possible without the support of those who understand the critical need for private funding. We are most grateful to our friends at Holland & Knight, and all the other donors, who have made it possible for Chesterfield Smith’s legacy to have a permanent home here.

Much more will happen in this room than the education of students in substantive law, which itself is a very important contribution. This is a room where every student will have at least one class. It is the room where trial team competitions, symposia and conferences will be held. In September, the university’s Constitution Day celebration was held here and in October the Florida Supreme Court presided over the Final Four moot court competition.

Students also will get to know Chesterfield Smith through the exhibit that highlights his life’s accomplishments. I have no doubt they will be inspired. Students like Will Sexton — who graduates in December to practice environmental and land use law — will have the opportunity to embrace the professionalism Chesterfield never compromised. They will learn values and skills that will enable them to assume positions of leadership in our communities, state and nation and, as Chesterfield challenges all of us, learn to “do good.”

- Robert H. Jerry, II
Dean; Levin, Mabie and Levin Professor