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Center on Children and Families
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The quality and diversity of faculty involved in the Center on Children and Families is unmatched anywhere in the country. The center is headed by a director and two co-directors, and its faculty is composed of a strong group of associate directors from the Levin College of Law and other colleges/centers at the University of Florida.
Directors
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, Director and David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, also is Co-Director, UF Institute for Child & Adolescent Research and Evaluation. An expert on children and the law, she clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and was Co-Director/Co-Founder of the Center for Children’s Policy, Practice and Research at the University of Pennsylvania before joining the UF College of Law in 2001.
Nancy E. Dowd, Co-Director and Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law, is an expert on single parent families, fatherhood, the interactions of race and gender in the lives of children and adults, adoption and work/family issues. Author of numerous books, she teaches innovative courses in areas of family law, gender and the law, constitutional law and employment discrimination law.
Associate Directors
Iris A. Burke is a clinical professor, was managing attorney in a legal services program before joining the College of Law in 1980. Since 1989, she has been a supervising attorney in UF law’s clinical programs providing assistance to poor families in divorce and custody cases. She is particularly interested in issues of access to justice.
Robin Davis
Lauren Fasig
Joan D. Flocks is director of the Social Policy Division at the College of Law’s Center for Governmental Responsibility, where she teaches poverty law and environmental justice. She also is affiliate faculty at the School of Natural Resources and Environment and graduate faculty with the Master of Public Health program. Her current work focuses on inequities in natural and built environments.
Jeffrey T. Grater is legal skills professor and supervising attorney of the Family Law Full Representation Clinic. He earned his J.D. from UF with honors, clerked for Judge Joe Cowart, Jr., and represented indigent clients for eight years as an attorney with Three Rivers Legal Services before joining the UF faculty in 1996. He also is a family law mediator.
Berta E. Hernández-Truyol is a Levin Mabie & Levin Professor of Law. She is widely published on issues of gender and race, and is an expert on international human rights, employment discrimination and Latinas/Latinos in the law. Hernández has been a litigator and has worked at both the U.S. Departments of Justice and Labor.
Karen Keroak, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and supervisor for Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic. She supervises undergraduate and graduate social work students through interdisciplinary collaboration with third-year law students who represent children. As a lecturer, and faculty member of Florida State University School of Social Work, she coordinates the Gainesville Part-time M.S.W. Program.
Shani King, UF professor of law, teaches Perspectives on Family Law, Professional Responsibility, International Children's Law. specialing in childrens rights.
Kenneth B. Nunn, UF professor of law, teaches criminal law, criminal procedure, race and race relations law, and seminars on police brutality, race and crime, and cultural studies. He has written widely on issues relating to juvenile justice and the impact of criminal justice policies on African-American families, and is a co-founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations.
Don C. Peters, professor of law and trustee research fellow, is director of the Levin College of Law Institute for Dispute Resolution and heads the Mediation Clinic. A member of the faculty since 1973, he is a nationally known expert in negotiation and mediation, interviewing and counseling, and civil procedure.
Meshon Rawls is the director of the Gator TeamChild Juvenile Law Clinic. She supervises third-year law students who represent children in a variety of cases, including delinquency, dependency, school discipline, special education and child custody.
Sharon E. Rush is Irving Cypen Professor of Law and co-founder of the Center for Race and Race Relations. She specializes in constitutional law, with particular emphasis on equality and children’s issues. She is author of Loving Across the Color Line: A White Adoptive Mother Learns About Race (2000) (nominated for the NAACP Image Award) and numerous articles on racial equality for children.
Peggy F. Schrieber is a legal skills professor who teaches and supervises students in the Family Law Pro Se/Unbundling Clinic and Seminar and supervises externs doing both civil and criminal domestic violence work. Prior to joining the faculty, she was managing attorney at Three Rivers Legal Services, providing civil legal assistance to indigent clients in rural North Central Florida.
Christopher Slobogin occupies a Stephen C. O’Connell Chair at the UF College of Law and teaches and writes primarily about criminal law and procedure and mental health law, interests that have led to publication of articles and book chapters that focus on the juvenile delinquency system, especially issues related to capacity and dangerousness.
Walter O. Weyrauch, a Stephen C. O’Connell Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, Emeritus, is an internationally known expert in comparative law, law and society, and family law. A member of UF’s faculty since 1957, he has earned degrees from Yale, Harvard, Georgetown and University of Frankfurt.
Steven J. Willis, professor of law, joined the UF faculty in 1981 and teaches in both the J.D. and Graduate Tax Programs. He has taught family law for many years and designed and teaches the advanced course, Economics of the Family, focusing on tax and financial aspects of family practice.
Monique Haughton Worrell is a legal skills professor and founding supervisor of the Child Welfare Clinic. A UF law graduate, and former public interest law fellow at the United States Immigration Court, she represented children and families as an assistant public defender and in private practice, and served the NYC Childrens Services as a protective investigating officer before joining the UF faculty in 2002.
Fellows
The Center provides opportunities for research, mentoring and advocacy to a talented group of "Fellows" (second-year and third-year law students) selected each year through a competitive process.
