Faculty & Staff
Scholarly Events Schedule
Faculty Colloquia: 2010-2011 | 2009-2010 | 2008-2009 | 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.
Fall 2008 Conferences, Lectures & Other Events
-
Sept. 12 - Larry Lokken, Professor of Law and Hugh F. Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law
"How Financial Engineers Thought They Had Manufactured Gold from Toxic Waste, But Actually Converted Toxic Waste into Highly Toxic Waste " -
Sept. 19 - Claire Hill, Professor and Director, Institute for Law and Rationality; Associate Director, Institute for Law and Economics, University of Minnesota Law School
"Bargaining in the Shadow of the Lawsuit: A Social Norms Theory of Incomplete Contracts" -
Sept. 26 (UF / FSU Junior Faculty Exchange) - Lesley Wexler, Assistant Professor of Law, Florida State University College of Law
"Regulating Resource Curses: Using Institutional Theory to Understand the Kimberley Process" -
Oct. 3 - Rebecca C. Morgan , Boston Asset Management Faculty Chair in Elder Law; Director, LL.M. in Elder Law
Terry Radwan, Senior Associate Dean, Stetson University College of Law
"Elders and Bankruptcy" -
Oct. 10 - Jennifer Brown, Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University School of Law
"Peacemaking the Culture War Between Gay Rights and Religious Liberty" - Oct. 17 - Peter A. Alces, Rita Anne Rollins Professor of Law, William & Mary School of Law
"Toward an Empirical Morality of Commercial Transactions" -
Nov. 5 (Wed., Faculty Lounge) - Nancy Dowd
"Masculinities Scholarship & Feminist Legal Theory" - Nov. 14 - Thomas D. Barton, Louis & Hermione Brown Professor of Law; Director, Louis M. Brown Program in Preventive Law; and Coordinator, National Center for Preventive Law; California Western School of Law
"Preventive Law and Legal Thinking" - Nov. 21 - Danaya Wright, Professor of Law and UF Research Foundation Professor, University of Florida Levin College of Law
"Rails to Trails"
Spring 2009 Conferences, Lectures & Other Events
- Jan. 14 (Wed., Faculty Lounge) - Danie Visser, University of Capetown
Topic: TBA - Jan. 16 - Yariv Brauner
"Tax Incentives and Economic Development" - Jan. 23 - Michael Vandenbergh, Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
Topic: Climate Change - Jan. 30 - Bradley T. Borden, Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of Law
"Open Tenancies in Common" - Feb. 6 - Stewart Sterk, H. Bert & Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Title: TBA - Feb. 11 - Michelle Jacobs
"Virtual Education" - Feb. 20 - Alicia Davis Evans, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Title: TBA - Feb. 27 - Philip J. Weiser, Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Research; and Executive Director of Silicon Flatirons Center, University of Colorado Law School
"Ending the Reign of Chaos and Disorder at the FCC: Strategies for Institutional Reform" - Mar. 20 - Rick Geddes, Associate Professor, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Department of Policy Analysis and Management
"Human Capital Accumulation and the Expansion of Women’s Property Rights" - Mar. 27 - Danny Sokol
"Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises and Its Impact on Competition Policy" - Apr. 3 - Mark S. Weiner, Professor of Law and Sidney I. Reitman Scholar, Rutgers School of Law (Newark)
"Imagining the Rule of Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain" - Apr. 10 - Sharon Rabin-Margalioth, Visiting at NYU Law
"The Market Explanation (Excuse) for the Gender Pay Gap" - Apr. 17 - Cynthia Farina, Professor of Law, Cornell University Law School
"Presidential Virtues"