Faculty & Staff
Scholarly Events Schedule
Faculty Colloquia: 2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006
Demonstrating a commitment to scholarly engagement, UFLaw's faculty colloquium series hosts some of the nation's top legal academics as they present their current work to the law school faculty. The series provides a forum for provocative and innovative legal scholarship and gives UFLaw faculty the opportunity to exchange ideas with other scholars, foster relationships with other institutions, and collaborate on works in progress.
Spring 2008 Conferences, Lectures & Other Events
- Friday, January 25 - FDR at Noon: Dawn Jourdan, Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Florida. Evidence Based Ordinance Drafting: The Regulation of Signage Based on Scholarship
- Thursday, January 31 – FDR at Noon: Gavin Clarkson, University of Michigan, Assistant Professor, School of Information and Visiting Professor, School of Law.
- Friday, February 8 - FDR at Noon: Debra Lyn Bassett, Professor of Law and Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr. Scholar University of Alabama School of Law. The Revolution of 1938 and its Discontents: The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure Today
- Friday, February 15 - FDR at Noon: Stephen H. Legomsky, Professor of Law and John S. Lehmann University Professor Washington University School of Law. Learning to Live with Unequal Justice: Asylum and the Limits to Consistency
- Wednesday, February 20 – Faculty Lounge at 10:00 a.m.: Angela Mae Kupenda, Professor of Law Mississippi College School of Law. Special Tea Time Guest (in connection with Feb. 19 lecture sponsored by CCF & CSRRR)
- Thursday, February 28 – Faculty Lounge at 10:00 a.m.: Gary Melton, Professor and Director Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life Clemson University. Special Tea Time Guest (in connection with lecture sponsored by CCF)
- Friday, February 29 – Bailey Courtroom at Noon: Beverly Moran, Professor of Law and Sociology Vanderbilt Law School. Adam Smith and the Search for an Ideal Tax System
- Friday, March 7 - FDR at Noon: Steve R. Johnson, E.L. Wiegard Professor of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas, William S. Boyd School of Law. The Who and What of Anti-Abuse Rules: The Debate over Codifying the Economic Substance Doctrine
- Friday, March 21 - Faculty Lounge at Noon: Alexandra B. Klass, Associate Professor of Law University of Minnesota Law School. State Innovation and Preemption: Lessons from Environmental Law
- Tuesday, March 25 - Faculty Lounge at 10:00 a.m.: Stephanie Coontz, Professor, Evergreen State College and Director of Research and Education of the Council on Contemporary Families. Special Tea Time Guest (in connection with March 26 Second Annual Walter Weyrauch Lecture)
- Friday, April 4 – FDR at Noon: Craig Anthony Arnold, Boehl Chair in Property and Land Use and Professor of Law; Affiliated Professor of Urban Planning: Chair of the Center for Land Use and Environmental Responsibility, University of Louisville, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. Land Use Regulation and the Democratic Process
- Friday, April 11 – FDR at Noon: Paul Butler, Professor of Law and Carville Dickinson Benson Research Professor of Law George Washington University Law School. Topic TBA
Spring 2008 Center for Children and Families Lecture Series
Families in Transition
- Tuesday, February 19 - FDR at Noon: Angela Mae Kupenda, Professor of Law at Mississippi College School of Law School, will be our second lecturer. Professor Kupendas talk is co-sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations. A scholar of family law issues and critical race theory, she will be speaking on the relationship between family law and communities of color, using as her framework the analysis of relationships of abuse developed by domestic violence scholars.
- Wednesday, February 27 – FDR at Noon: Gary Melton, Professor and Director, Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life, Clemson University, will be our final speaker, on a date to be announced during the spring semester. Professor Melton, a psychologist, has been at the forefront of international and national research relating to children’s rights, including in particular issues of child abuse. He has been recognized for his outstanding contributions to scholarship and public policy multiple times by the American Psychological Association as well as other national and international organizations. He will be speaking about child abuse.
- Wednesday, March 26 – FDR at Noon: Stephanie Coontz, Professor, Evergreen State College and Director of Research and Education of the Council on Contemporary Families, will be our second annual Walter Weyrauch Lecturer. Professor Coontz, a social historian who is an expert on the history of families and marriage, is perhaps best known for her book The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap. She most recently published Marriage, A History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage. She will be speaking on marriage.
Spring 2008 Conferences, Lectures & Other Events
- Friday, January 25: Graduate Tax Lecture Series - Tax Court Judge Robert Wherry
- Friday, February 15: Richard E. Nelson Conference
- Saturday, February 16: 6th Annual Music Law Conference
- Thursday & Friday, February 21-22: Wolf Family Lecture Series
- Friday, February 22: Graduate Tax - Legal Ethics Workshop
- Friday, February 22: Admitted Students Day
- Saturday, February 23: Center for the Study of Race & Race Relations - Griot Oral Competition
- Wednesday – Saturday, February 27 – March 1: PIEC Conference & Events
- Thursday, February 28: Center on Children & Families - Collaborative Law Training
- Friday, March 28: Professionalism Symposium
- Friday, March 28: JLPP 20th Anniversary
- Friday, April 4: Estates & Trusts Conference
- Saturday, April 5: Florida Bar Real Property and Probate & Trust Law Section Meeting
- Friday, April 18: Dunwody Distinguished Lecture - The Honorable William Pryor from the US Court of Appeals for 11th Circuit
- Friday, April 18: Admitted Students Day