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Scholarship and Activities: Larry A. DiMatteo

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:42:25 +0000

Adjunct Professor Larry A. DiMatteo, Associate Professor/Chair of the Department of Management, Warrington College of Business, published (lead author), “The Interpretive Turn in International Sales Law: An Analysis of Fifteen Years of CISG Jurisprudence,” 24 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 299 (2004). He has another article in press, “Reason and Context: A Dual Track Theory of Interpretation,” Penn State Law Rev., Vol. 109 (2004). He also is lead author of International Sales Law: A Critical Analysis of the CISG, Cambridge University Press (2005), and the second edition of his textbook (with Lucien Dhooge), International Business Law: A Transactional Approach, is due out in the spring.

Scholarship and Activities: Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:35:22 +0000

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse, David H. Levin Chair in Family Law, Director, Center on Children and the Law, and Co-Director, Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Evaluation (ICARE), spoke to a congressional roundtable this month and presented a talk at the Children’s Bureau in the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, D.C., both on the Child’s Right to Counsel. (Press release at www.firststar.org/policy/roundtable.shtml.) Her working paper, “Reframing the Debate about the Socialization of Children: An Environmentalist Paradigm,” is online at www.law.ufl.edu/faculty/publications/

Scholarship and Activities: Marin McMahon

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:34:21 +0000

Clarence J. TeSelle Professor Martin J. McMahon published “Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation: The Year 2003,” 6 Florida Tax Review 445 (2004) (with Ira B. Shepard). He also made two new CLE presentations: one Sept. 27 on “Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation,” and one Sept. 29 on “Divorce Taxation Deskbook,” both made jointly with Professor Ira Shepard at the 39th Annual Southern Federal Tax Institute in Atlanta.

Scholarship and Activities: Tom Ankerson

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:33:41 +0000

Conservation Clinic Director Tom Ankersen published a book review, “Regional Perspectives on Latin American Conservation,” in 18 Conservation Biology 1444-1446 (2004).

Prominent Environmental Scholars Headline Speaker Series

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:28:26 +0000

Four leading environmental scholars will headline the inaugural Levin College of Law Environmental & Land Use Law Speaker Series in Spring 2005. The series is sponsored by Hopping Green & Sams P.A., Tallahassee; Lewis Longman & Walker P.A., West Palm Beach; and The Florida Bar Environmental & Land Use Law Section. Speakers include:

• Rebecca Tsosie, Arizona State University, March 11, 2005. Specializes in Indian law, property, bioethics and critical race theory, and is executive director of the ASU Indian Legal Program and its Lincoln Professor of Native American Law & Ethics. She is co-author of a federal Indian law casebook, and serves as a Supreme Court Justice for Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.

• Barbara Knuth, Cornell University, March 18, 2005. Chairs the Department of Natural Resources and is co-leader of Human Dimensions Research. She has written extensively on environmental and natural resources planning, management and policy processes.

• Wendy E. Wagner, University of Texas, March 25, 2005. Leading authority on use of science by environmental policymakers; one of seven attorneys on the American Bar Association’s National Conference of Lawyers & Scientists.

• James Salzman, Duke University, April 8, 2005. An editor of Environmental Impact Assessment, and principal liaison for the Trade & Environment Policy Advisory Committee.

Limited seating will be available at the free engagements. For information, contact ELULP Program Assistant Marla Wolfe, 392-3427 or elulp@law.ufl.edu. (Also see complete news release online at http://www.law.ufl.edu/ news/releases/040827.shtml.)

UF Law Students, Faculty Go ‘Pasture Paddling’ on Payne’s Prairie

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:24:53 +0000

Students, faculty and friends of UF law’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program took advantage of high water to paddle Alachua County’s Prairie Creek on a recent Friday afternoon. The issuebased field trip was organized by the Conservation Clinic, and outfitted by local environmental historian Lars Andersen.

Prairie Creek flows into Payne’s Prairie through a water control structure, and represents the first “reservation” of water for environmental purposes under Florida water law, a legal status now being sought for restoration of the Florida Everglades. Due to the flooding, the group was able to experience first-hand a flooded forest and try their hand at “pasture paddling.”

“When you paddled by a live oak, you knew you were beyond the ordinary high water line,” said Conservation Clinic Director Tom Ankersen.