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wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:02:55 +0000

Trial Practice Director/Legal Skills Professor Jennifer Zedalis published “Re-thinking Your Practice Habits — Seven Ways to be a Better Lawyer in the Criminal Courts,” 33 Florida Criminal Law Journal (Fall 2003).

Scholarship and Activities: Barbara Woodhouse

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:57:51 +0000

Center on Children and the Law Director/David H. Levin Chair in Family Law/Professor Barbara Woodhouse published “Enhancing Children’s Participation in Policy Formation,” 45 Arizona L. Rev. 751 (2003).

Scholarship and Acivities: Sherrie Russell-Brown

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:57:06 +0000

Assistant Professor/Center on Children and the Law Associate Director Sherrie Russell-Brown published “A U.N. Solution to A Problem from Hell,” 2 Wash. U. Global Studies L. Rev. 427 (2003), a review of Samantha Power’s A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002).

Scholarship and Activities: Lars Noah

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:56:01 +0000

UF Research Foundation Professor Lars Noah will publish “A Postmodernist Take on the Human Embryo Research Debate” in the Connecticut Law Review (as part of a symposium issue dedicated to the stem cell controversy) and “Deputizing Institutional Review Boards to Police (Audit?) Biomedical Research” in the Journal of Legal Medicine.

Scholarship and Activities: Diane Mazur

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:51:45 +0000

University of Florida Research Foundation Professor Diane H. Mazur published an article in the Boston Globe, “Democrats pursue veterans’ votes” Nov. 30 and an editorial in the Chicago Tribune “Perspectives” section (online at http://www.chicagotribune. com /news/ opinion/perspective/ chi-0312280397dec28,1,4110372.story?coll =chi-newsopinionperspective-hed) Dec. 28. Her article, “Why Progressives Lost the War When They Lost the Draft,” will appear in the Hofstra L. Rev. (2004).

Scholarship and Activities: Diane Mazur

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:48:12 +0000

Scholarship and Activities: Patricia Dilley

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:47:09 +0000

Professor Patricia Dilley’s remarks at the AALS Section on Employee Benefits session on “Employee Stock Ownership” after Enron were published in 7 Employee Rights and Employment Policy J. 213 (2003).

Bamba Named CSRRR Assistant Director

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:42:29 +0000

Melissa Bamba has accepted the position of assistant director for the UF College of Law’s Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations. She will begin work with Center Director Dr. Katheryn Russell-Brown in February.

Bamba earned her M.A. (Criminology and Criminal Justice) from the University of Maryland in 1996; B.A. (Criminal Justice) from Temple University in Pennsylvania in 1992; and Paralegal Certificate from Widener University in Pennsylvania in 1986. She has served as a research/graduate assistant/associate at George Washington University Biostatistics Center, National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Committee on Law and Justice; CSR, Inc. in Washington, D.C.; and University of Maryland. She also was a criminologist for Crime Control Research Corporation in Washington, D.C., worked as a paralegal for LegalAssist of Philadelphia and for the law firm of Brobyn & Foceno, and was an instructor for the University of Pennsylvania Veteran’s Upward Bound Program.

The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations seeks to promote racial understanding, interracial dispute resolution, racial equality and racial healing, and to influence public policy through university, local, state and national projects and by bringing guest speakers to campus and hosting state and national conferences.

The center is looking for students interested in becoming race center affilitates. Contact Professor Russell-Brown (csrrr@law.ufl.edu) for information.

Meet the Faculty: Mark Fenster

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:38:28 +0000

View on the Profession

“A legal education and a J.D. provide a great entry into all kinds of interesting careers, from legal practice (in its nearly infinite varieties) to politics, policy-making, business, and, worst-case scenario, talk-show hosting. I hope students treat their careers like they treat their upper-division course selection: Do what you need to do, but also try to do both what you want and what’s meaningful to you to the extent possible. There are jobs that are merely jobs; but there’s work out there that can make the significant part of your waking life that you have to devote to it worthwhile and, hopefully, fun.”

Education

J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute of Communications Research; M.A., University of Texas at Austin, Department of Radio/ Television/Film; B.A., University of Virginia.

E xpertise/Background

Expertise in Property, Land Use, Administrative Law, and Legal and Cultural Theory. Former Yale Law School teaching assistant (Civil Procedure); conference coordinator; editor, Yale Law Journal; and symposium editor, Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Also served as visiting lecturer, Indiana University, Department of Telecommunications; and assistant professor, Shenandoah University, Department of Mass Communications. Former Environmental and Land Use Law fellow, Shute Mihaly & Weinberger, San Francisco; and judicial clerk for Judge Carlos Lucero, 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Admitted to practice in New York and California.

What You May Not Know

“I played in a band in high school with three guitarists and a trumpet player. Among others, we did songs by Molly Hatchet and the Velvet Underground.”