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National media at election forum

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:54:06 +0000

Key players in Florida’s 2000 Presidential Election were on hand Feb. 26, to revisit strategies in the protracted race. Students and faculty from the sponsoring entities — UF’s colleges of Law, Journalism and Liberal Arts & Sciences, the Department of Political Science and Office of Research and Graduate Programs — participated in and viewed the daylong conference, with some of the morning session overflow crowd (left below) viewing proceedings outside Holland Hall. Thanks to efforts by WUFTTV, the conference was Webcast nationally, with edited portions to be shown at later dates on public broadcast stations. Representatives of Associated Press, Chronicle of Higher Education, CNN and multiple print and broadcast media covered the event, coordinated by Interim Dean Jon Mills.

IP symposium to feature national leaders

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:47:09 +0000

UF law school officials initiated in 2000 the first Intellectual Property Law Certificate Program in the southeast, and one result is a March 24 symposium. Coordinated by UF Research Foundation Professor Tom Cotter, Director of the IP law program, the event will focus on extension of American-style IP rights to developing and leastdeveloped nations, particularly in the areas of pharmaceutical products and indigenous technologies. Among those featured are James Gathii, Rutgers University; Shubha Ghosh, State University of New York; James Love, Center for Study of Responsive Law, Washington, D.C.; Jerome H. Reichman, Duke University School of Law; Susan Sell, George Washington University; and Jayashree Watal of the World Trade Organization. The conference is funded in part by the Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik IP Fund. For information: www.law.ufl.edu/news/ releases/010125.shtml.

Faculty in the spotlight: Elizabeth McCulloch

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Mar 2001 19:37:40 +0000

Maupin House has published CGR Director of Social Policy Elizabeth McCulloch’s manual for welfare clients and advocates, Making Welfare Work (for You!).It is being distributed free to legal aid/legal services offices, and at trainings with low-income community groups in Florida she will conduct this spring and summer. It is on the Internet at www.law.ufl.edu\cgr\publications\ making_welfare_work.pdf. The manual will be updated each year after the legislative session. McCulloch is arranging for a Spanish translation.