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Faculty in the spotlight: Paul Magnarella

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:33:36 +0000

Professor Paul Magnarella’s article “Assessing the Concept of Human Rights in Africa” appears in the April (2001) issue of the journal Human Rights and Human Welfare.

Faculty in the spotlight: Richard Hiers

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:32:20 +0000

Affiliate Professor of Law Richard Hiers’ article, “Reverence for Life and Environmental Ethics in Biblical Law and Covenant” has been published in the on-line journal, Forum on Religion and Ecology, at http://environment.harvard.edu/ religion/research/Christianity/ hiers_1.htm. This is a substantially revised version of the article with the same title published two years ago in the Journal of Law & Religion.

Alternative Dispute Resolution Specialist Valerie Sanchez To Join Faculty This July

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:17:46 +0000

Valerie A. Sanchez will come from Harvard Law School — where she taught courses on negotiation, mediation, and family and labor law — to join the College of Law faculty in July. She was a Research Scholar for Harvard’s Negotiation Research Project, and will serve here as an Associate Director of the Institute for Dispute Resolution. As a former Graduate Fellow for Harvard’s Program on Dispute Resolution, Sanchez worked extensively on research for a history of ADR in medieval English and Continental legal systems. Sanchez also served as a Teaching Assistant during her time at Harvard. Sanchez is a former Florida resident, and attended UF during the beginning of her college education. She received her A.B. (magna cum laude) from Harvard-Radcliffe College, and her J.D. (cum laude) from Harvard. At the latter, she served as articles reviewer for Negotiation Journal, a faculty publication. Early in her legal career, Sanchez served as legal advisor for Boston Children’s Services Human Rights Committee, as a research assistant for various members of Harvard’s law faculty, and as a law clerk for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Bruce M. Selya (First Circuit, Rhode Island). Most recently, she served as an academic practitioner, assisting institutions and individuals with matters involving negotiation, mediation and alternative dispute resolution; child and family welfare policy development; and civil rights/civil liberties law. Sanchez is co-author (with Martha A. Field) of Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children (Harvard University Press, 2000), and author of “Towards a History of ADR: The Dispute Processing Continuum in Anglo-Saxon England and Today” (1996, 11 Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution). She is currently at work on a negotiation textbook, Negotiating the 21st Century: From Roundtable to Globalization.

Law School in Top Tier in U.S. News and World Report Ranking

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:13:45 +0000

Five UF colleges, including the Levin College of Law, are listed in the top 50 tier of schools in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s graduate schools. The College of Law’s Graduate Tax Program was rated second in the nation — above Stanford, Harvard and Yale — and the law school was 25th in the nation in terms of diversity.

Students Assist Holocaust Survivors

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 09 Apr 2001 21:02:30 +0000

A contingent of UF law students is participating in an historic volunteer program to assist south Florida Holocaust survivors with claims for compensation for World War II injustices. The Holocaust Survivor Assistance Project (HSAP), headed locally by third-year law students Jeff Neiman and Josh Corn, is part of nationwide efforts to help survivors receive compensation for forced and slave labor performed on behalf of Nazi Germany during World War II. The money is coming from a multi-billion dollar fund established by the German government and companies who unjustly benefitted from the labor. “More than 50 years after conclusion of World War II,” Neiman said, “Holocaust survivors finally are being compensated for labor performed in German-occupied territories during the war.” Neiman first heard about HSAP — where volunteers help victims fill out and file claims — from a friend at New York University, where a similar program is conducted. When Neiman found out about the large population of Holocaust survivors living in south Florida who need assistance, he began his organizational efforts. “We built this local program from the ground up, and it now involves about 35 law students and five others who are UF undergraduates,” he said. Neiman credits support and guidance from Jenni Frumer, director of Jewish Family Services of South Florida, and Professor Stuart Cohn with helping the group succeed.