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Faculty in the spotlight: Kathy Urbach

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:55:57 +0000

Kathy Urbach was named Associate Dean for Career Services, and featured in The Gainesville Sun and Independent Florida Alligator.

Faculty in the spotlight: Nancy Dowd

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:51:24 +0000

Professor Nancy Dowd was appointed a Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law, and the story ran in The Independent Florida Alligatorand other media.

Faculty in the spotlight: Gregg Polsky

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:48:50 +0000

Visiting Assistant Professor Gregg Polsky’s report, “Taxing Contingent Attorneys’ Fees: Many Courts Are Getting It Wrong,” was published in the Nov. 13 issue of Tax Notes.

Faculty in the spotlight: Kenneth Nunn

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:45:50 +0000

Professor Kenneth Nunn received the AALS Ferguson Award at the organization’s meeting in San Francisco. He was quoted in The Christian Science Monitor Dec. 5 about diversity issues, and in The Washington Post Dec. 12 about racial diversity and national voting.

Faculty in the spotlight: Paul Magnarella

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:43:58 +0000

Professor Paul Magnarella has won the Association of Third World Studies’ 2000 annual book award for his book Justice in Africa: Rwanda’s Genocide, Its National Courts and the UN Criminal Tribunal. His article, “Promoting Peace, Human Rights and National Security: Focus on Sub-Saharan Africa,” appears in the current issue of Social Justice, Anthropology, Peace and Human Rights. He also moderated a panel on “Ethical Issues in Field Research among the Yanomami” sponsored by the president of the American Anthropological Association in response to the controversial book Darkness in El Dorado by Patrick Tierney.

Scholarship Profile: Jonathan Cohen

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:38:56 +0000

Assistant Professor Jonathan R. Cohen has been at the forefront of exploring the potential of “apology” in legal disputes, both within academia and beyond. His article, “Advising Clients to Apologize,” 72 Southern California Law Review 1009-1069 (1999), received a 1999 CPR Award for Excellence in Dispute Resolution, and initiated national discussion on this subject. Citing Professor Cohen’s research, California passed an “Apology Bill” last summer excluding apologetic expressions of sympathy from admissibility as evidence. Several other states, including Florida, now are considering similar measures. Cohen is widely quoted in the general and legal press for his views, and has authored such articles as: “Apology and Organizations: Exploring an Example from Medical Practice,” 27 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1447-1482 (2000); “Apologizing for Errors: Ethical Corporate Conduct Can Also Be Good for Business,” Dispute Resolution Magazine (Summer 2000), “Encouraging Apology Improves Lawyering and Dispute Resolution,” Alternatives to the High Costs of Litigation (October 2000). Since arriving at UF, Cohen has also written articles on legal semiotics, negotiation ethics and human cloning. Most of his teaching focuses on negotiation and dispute resolution, and this spring he is offering a new seminar on “Reconciliation.” Before coming to the law school, Cohen clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court, worked in private law practice, and studied and taught negotiation and dispute resolution as a Hewlett Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation. He received his A.B., J.D., and Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard.

Law student interns with legislature

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 16 Jan 2001 17:37:18 +0000

Law student James McDonald will be one of four students to represent UF as interns with the 2001 Florida Legislature. The Legislative Internship Program is designed to allow exceptional UF students to participate in state government at the highest levels. McDonald, a third-year student originally from Mississippi, will work with state Rep. Ed Jennings Jr. (DGainesville). McDonald has been involved with the National Black Law Students Association and trial advocacy competitions. Students receive UF internship credit, and will travel to Tallahassee prior to and during the 2001 legislative session.