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UFLaw Student Profile: Horn Chairs County Republican Executive Committee

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:04:16 +0000

Former Law School Republicans (LSR) President Travis Horn (right, with Governor Jeb Bush) was elected Chair of the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee (REC) in December, the first student to hold the position in a decade. Horn’s involvement with the campus group led an increase in its level of activities and involvement, and he hopes to duplicate that on the county level. “We want to bring successes like those we experienced with our Law School Republicans into the community,” he said. Horn, 30, is a veteran whose service in the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division (1990-94) included a tour of Saudi Arabia after the Gulf War cease-fire. In 1999, Horn was a sworn delegate for George W. Bush’s “Florida Victory 2000” convention. He received his B.A. in Political Science (history-minor) from UF in 2000. He entered law school in 2002, became President of the LSR and founded/chaired “Gators For Jeb.” Governor Bush, his son George and former Florida Solicitor General Tom Warner are among speakers Horn helped bring to Gainesville. “Alachua County Republicans want to articulate and stand firm on our party’s core principles,” Horn said. “I look forward to the challenge.”

In the Spotlight: Charles Collier

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:01:10 +0000

• Professor Charles Collier published “The Harsh Judgment of History: The Terrorist Worldview and Intellectual Values” in Dissent (Winter 2003).

In the Spotlight: Jonathan Cohen

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:57:56 +0000

Associate Professor/Associate Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution Jonathan Cohen’s article “Adversaries? Partners? How about Counterparts? On Metaphors in the Practice and Teaching of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution,” will be published in Conflict Resolution Quarterly (Spring 2003).

In the Spotlight: Juan Perea

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:57:20 +0000

Professor Juan Perea published “Killing Me Softly, With His Song: Anglocentrism and Celebrating Nouveaux Latinas/os,” as part of the LatCrit VI symposium issue in the Florida Law Review. He also will present a paper on “Law and the Border” at UCLA Law Review’s 50th Anniversary symposium this month.

In the Spotlight: William Page

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:56:17 +0000

Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law/Associate Dean of Faculty Development William Page published Volume Two of Kintner’s Federal Antitrust Law: Practices Prohibited by the Sherman Act (Anderson Pub. Co., with Joseph Bauer), the 2003 supplement for the full treatise.

In the Spotlight: Lars Noah

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:54:30 +0000

Professor Lars Noah’s article, “The Coming Pharmacogenomics Revolution: Tailoring Drugs to Fit Patients’ Genetic Profiles,” is lead article in the latest issue of Jurimetrics, the ABA’s scholarly journal of law, science & technology. His latest manuscript, “Assisted Reproductive Technologies and the Pitfalls of Unregulated Biomedical Innovation,” will be published in the next issue of Florida Law Review.

In The Spotlight: Michael Gordon

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:52:39 +0000

Michael Gordon has completed the manuscript for the 6th edition of his West Group casebook, International Business Transactions. He also spoke on “Lack of Predictability in Procedural Stages of Civil Litigation” as the principal speaker at the Miami International Arbitration Conference, “Legal and Non-Legal Particularities of Commercial International Arbitration in Latin America,” sponsored by the American Arbitration Association and Steel Hector & Davis.

Overton Takes Students on Field Trip to Florida Supreme Court

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Tue, 21 Jan 2003 18:48:06 +0000

Many of Florida’s best known lawyers and judges help teach UFLaw classes each semester. Few are more illustrious than former Chief Justice Ben Overton (JD 52). He is not only renowned for his expertise in the law, he is beloved by students for his efforts to make the law interesting and “real.” Overton hosted a field trip last semester to the Florida Supreme Court as part of a UFLaw seminar he was teaching. Appointed by Governor Reubin Askew, Overton was the first Supreme Court Justice appointed under Florida’s merit-selection process, and served from 1974-99. “The Court has the responsibility to ensure Florida law is applied consistently,” Overton told students as he began his tour. “It sets policy in construing state law and determining whether government actions or statutes are unconstitutional, and it reviews all death-penalty cases.” He next took students to a conference room where Justices spend about 10 days a month in oddly shaped, burgundy-leather chairs discussing cases. “The rule is you can disagree up to the point of being disagreeable,” Overton said.“We had a collegial court the last few years and socialized together, because socializing with others was limited.” Overton showed students the videoconferencing center, which handles some first appearances, arraignments and depositions. “Considering travel costs, I expect videoconferencing to pay for itself many times over,” Overton said. Mike Love, the Court’s Information Technology Manager, noted Overton initiated the Court’s current technology and that Florida has been a model for many states. “Justice Overton foresaw technology’s role in the court system,” said Andy Adkins, Director of UF’s Legal Technology Institute. “He laid the foundations, bringing together those who knew technology and those who would use it.” Adkins, whose uncle was on the Court from 1969-87, is a technology consultant for courts statewide. “The field trip and seminar were incredible opportunities,” said Lex Taylor (3L), who gave a presentation on Florida’s 2002 constitutional amendments. At the conclusion of the trip, Overton’s wife, Marilynn, provided lunch in the Supreme Court breakroom, with Justices Barbara Pariente and Raoul Cantero joining the UF group. Pariente discussed Florida’s Unified Family Courts project and urged students to take family law classes.