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In the spotlight: Richard Hier

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:45:35 +0000

Affiliate Professor Richard Hiers’ article, “Biblical Social Welfare Legislation: Protected Classes and Provisions for Persons in Need,” was published in Journal of Law and Religion (2002).

In the spotlight: Steve Willis

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:42:38 +0000

Professor Steve Willis won the annual Special Merit Award from the chair of the Tax Section of the Florida Bar for “Outstanding Service.”

In the spotlight: Walter Weyrauch

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:35:38 +0000

Distinguished Professor Walter Weyrauch published a chapter on legal education in Germany during the war in Festschrift fur Klaus Luderssen (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft Baden-Baden).

In the spotlight: Jon Mills

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:33:47 +0000

Dean Jon Mills published “Florida on Trial — Federalism in the 2000 Presidential Election,” Stanford Journal of Law & Public Policy.

In the spotlight: Jeff Harrison

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:32:24 +0000

Stephen C. O’Connell Professor Jeff Harrison published Law and Economics: Cases, Materials and Behavioral Perspectives (Westgroup).

Trial Team To Compete in ‘Tournament of Champions’

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:27:45 +0000

The UF Trial Team will compete in Austin, Texas, Oct. 30-Nov. 2, at the “Tournament of Champions,” generally considered the most prestigious tournament of the year. Only 12 of the nation’s ABA-accredited law schools — including Harvard, Temple, Loyola and University of Texas — receive invitations, based on team performance over the past three years. UF also will compete at national competitions in Los Angeles (National Civil Trial Advocacy Championship Tournament), Chicago (National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers) and Michigan State. The invitations are due to team members making the finals in all 2001-02 competitions entered. Of 400 teams competing at the national level, only UF had units in two Final Fours — the American Bar Association and American Trial Lawyers competitions. “It was great to be invited to every fall tournament we applied for,” said Trial Team President Shawntoyia Grier. Team member Desiree Demonbreun added, “We have Faculty Advisor Carl Schwait and our coaches to thank for our consistent victories. Hard work and talent coupled with dedicated coaches is our recipe for success.” Fermin Lopez, who served on two of last semester’s firstplace teams, said “We have a great chance of winning the Tournament of Champions; the only difference between us and Harvard is geography. The team is dedicated to continuing to deliver noticeably high trial advocacy skills at these competitions and looks forward to successfully representing UFLaw.” Schwait said, “This is a huge accomplishment. The students deserve this heightened level of recognition, since they worked extremely hard to achieve success.” Third- or fourth-semester students interested in joining Trial Team should attend an informational meeting Thursday (Aug. 22), 6 p.m., 290 Holland Hall. Tryouts begin Aug. 28. Visit the Trial Team office for information.

In the spotlight: Chamberlin, Dowd, Page, Slobogin

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:27:30 +0000

The recently published Oxford Companion to American Law included entries by Affiliate Professor Bill Chamberlin (“Freedom of Information Act” and “Media and the Law”); Chesterfield Smith Professor Nancy Dowd (“Gender and Law”); Bill Page (“AT & T Litigation”); and Stephen C. O’Connell Professor Christopher Slobogin (“Police Procedures”). Only a few schools (including Vanderbilt and UCLA) had more faculty represented in the 300-author volume.

In the spotlight: Berta Hernandez-Truyol

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:24:24 +0000

Levin Mabie & Levin Professor Berta Hernandez-Truyol published “Crossing Borderlands of Inequality with International Legal Methodologies — The Promise of Multiple Feminisms,” in the German Yearbook of International Law.

In the spotlight: Barbara Woodhouse

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:22:32 +0000

Children and the Law Center Director/Levin Chair Barbara Bennett Woodhouse published “Youthful Indiscretions: Culture, Class, Status, and the Passage to Adulthood” in DePaul Law Review, and “Horton Looks at the ALI Principles,” in the Journal of Law & Family Studies.

In the spotlight: Charles Collier

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 19 Aug 2002 20:20:28 +0000

Professor Charles Collier published an essay regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks and moral relativism in the Community Network’s Summer 2002 quarterly journal, The Responsive Community.