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Faculty in the spotlight: Jerold Israel

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:00:26 +0000

Professor Jerold Israel’s Childress Lecture, “Free-Standing Due Process and Criminal Procedure: The Supreme Court’s Search for Interpretive Guidelines,” will be featured in the Spring 2001 issue of the Saint Louis University Law Journal. He will speak April 9 at the Florida Free Speech Forum on the first three guarantees of the fifth amendment: grand jury review, prohibition against double jeopardy, and the privilege against selfincrimination. (For reservations, call 335.3938.)

Faculty In The Spotlight: Juan Perea

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:58:21 +0000

Professor Juan Perea has published “The New American Spanish War: How the Courts and the Legislatures are Aiding the Suppression of Languages Other Than English,” in Language Ideologies: Critical Perspectives on the Official English Movement (Roseann Duenas Gonzalez, ed., 2001).

Powell Helping Resolve International Trade Dispute

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:39:14 +0000

Stephen J. Powell, director of the law school’s international trade programs, has become only the third American in the six-year history of the World Trade Organization to be named to a panel formed to resolve an international trade dispute. Powell was appointed by the Geneva-based WTO to serve on a three-member panel hearing issues on a trade conflict between Argentina and Italy. Serving with Powell will be Hugh McPhail, division director in New Zealand’s Ministry of Commerce, and Gilles Gauthier of the international trade policy division of Canada’s Department of Finance. “Because these panel decisions are now effectively binding on the litigants, WTO dispute settlement has become a more frequent alternative to arbitration or lawsuits to resolve international commercial disputes,” said law school Interim Dean Jon Mills. “This is quite an honor for Steve and the law school. The WTO’s stringent panel requirements for trade expertise and legal credibility confirms our confidence in his abilities to head our international trade programs.” Since formation in 1995 of the WTO, 68 panels have been convened to settle disputes. The two other Americans selected to serve on one or more of these are WTO experts John H. Jackson of Georgetown University Law Center and Robert E. Hudec of the University of Minnesota Law School. Another Florida attorney with WTO connections, James L. Bacchus, serves by appointment of the president and Congress as a founding member of the organization’s appellate body – referred to as “the supreme court of world trade.” Bacchus is managing partner of the Orlando office of the Florida-based law firm Greenberg Traurig. Prior to joining the law school faculty in January 2000, Powell served 17 years as chief counsel for import administration, the federal agency responsible for overseeing U.S. laws governing unfairly traded imports. He teaches international trade to law and business students, and conducts seminars on practical trade subjects for Florida attorneys and business executives. In the case on which Powell will be acting, the European Union alleges that Argentina’s imposition of antidumping duties on exports of ceramic floor tiles from Italy violates the WTO antidumping agreement negotiated by member nations. Dumping is international price discrimination – either selling below the cost of producing the item, or selling goods in an export market at a lower price than the product is sold in the home market. The panel’s decision in this case is expected to be issued this August. WTO panels in cases initiated by the United States have brought significant gains to Florida industries — including opening markets for Florida beef, citrus and high tech exports — as well as protecting intellectual property rights (patents and copyrights) of Florida companies.

UF Athletic Hall of Fame Inducts Three with Law School Links

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 02 Apr 2001 20:20:57 +0000

Among the nine inductees to the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame this weekend are three men with strong links to the Fredric G. Levin College of Law. The three, who will be honored at ceremonies starting at 5:30 p.m. Friday (April 6) at the football stadium’s Touchdown Terrace, are Bruce Culpepper, J.D. ’66; Mandell Glicksberg, J.D. ’51, law school faculty member for more than 45 years; and third-year law school student Brad Culpepper (UF B.A. ’91), who plays in the National Football League.

Bruce Culpepper

Currently a shareholder and vice president of the statewide law firm of Akerman, Senterfitt and Eidson. Former member of Florida Bar Board of Governors, a Florida Supreme Court appointee to The Florida Bar Foundation board, and a Board of Trustee on the UF Law Center Association, Inc. He served as president of Gator Boosters, and chairman of the UF President’s Council. Culpepper was co-captain of the 1962 Gator football team, a three-year letterman – playing both linebacker and center, and member of the 1960 and 1962 Gator Bowl teams. His career at UF included serving as president of the Student Government, and member of Florida Blue Key, Sigma Chi, Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, and Phi Alpha Theta Academic. Bruce and his wife, Pep (UF ’64), are the parents of a daughter and two sons – J. Bruce, ’91 law grad, and J. Brad II, another Hall of Fame inductee this weekend.

Brad Culpepper

Son of Bruce and grandson of Broward Culpepper (UF ’30 B.A., ’37 M.A.E.). Brad played for the Minnesota Vikings in 1992 and 1993; the Tampa Bay Buccaneers from 1994-1999, and for the Chicago Bears in 2000. He was named to the All-Madden Team in ’99. He was the first Gator to be honored with the Draddy Scholarship trophy, presented to the nation’s premier scholar-athlete by the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame. He was named first-team All-America in ’91, recipient of the Toyota Leader of the Year Award, and member of the GTE Academic All- America and CFA Scholar-Athlete teams. He also was a member of Sigma Chi and Florida Blue Key, served as Student Government vice president, and on the University Athletic Association Board of Directors in 1991-92.

Mandell Glicksberg

Entered UF in 1945 and majored in psychology. Entered law school in 1948 and earned his B.A. from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 1949, at the end of his first year in law school. Was a member of the Gator marching band, symphony orchestra and Pi Lambda Phi fraternity. He served on the editorial board of Florida Law Review, and was elected to UF’s Honor Court and Florida Blue Key. Glicksberg began practicing law in his hometown of Miami Beach in 1951, and was called to active duty with the Air Force in 1952. He went to Judge Advocate General school at Maxwell Air Force Base, and was stationed at Eglin AFB in Fort Walton Beach. He joined the UF law faculty in ’53, unknowingly beginning a monumental 44-year career as an academician and educator. His honors include Florida Blue Key Distinguished Faculty Award, Student Government Award of Instructor Excellence, College of Law Teacher of the Year, and recipient of Tradition of Excellence Award from The Florida Bar’s General Practice/Solo/ Small Firm Section in 1997. His contributions to UF athletics were equally impressive. From 1965-1990, he was the Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and Southeastern Conference, Chairman of the Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics for the university during the same 25 years, and served as a member, secretary and president of the University Athletic Association during 1962-1990. He also served as co-chairman of the Committee to Integrate Women’s Athletics into the Southeastern Conference. Glicksberg and his wife, Joyce, also a UF graduate, have three children and five grandchildren.