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Scholarship & Activities: Peterson

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:22:59 +0000

Assistant Professor Christopher Peterson testified before the Jacksonville City Commission’s Government Operations, Oversight & Human Services Committee on Sept. 19. He spoke about a proposed ordinance that would limit interest rates charged to military personnel who take out payday loans.

Scholarship & Activities: Nagan, Hammer, Artigliere

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:20:56 +0000

Samuel T. Dell Research Scholar Winston Nagan, a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, has been invited to give a presentation at the academy’s annual congress in Zagreb, Croatia in November. He has also been invited to give a presentation at Yale Law School’s Society for the Policy Sciences, where he serves on the board of directors. With former Senior Fellow Craig Hammer and Junior Fellow Adam Artigliere, he drafted two amicus briefs for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York regarding compelling issues in ongoing apartheid litigation. Nagan published “The Global Challenge To Legal Education: Training Lawyers For A New Paradigm Of Economic, Political And Legal Cultural Expectations In The 21st Century” in 11 ILSA Journal of Int’l & Comp. Law 1 (2005) (with Professor Danie Visser).

Scholarship & Activities: Paul McDaniel

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:17:04 +0000

James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar in Taxation Paul McDaniel was a participant in an International Tax Conference in Rust, Austria in July. Tax scholars from Europe and the U.S. met to discuss current issues in international taxation. McDaniel’s paper, “A Critique of Tax Expenditure Accounting in Selected OECD Countries,” will appear in a Festschrift for Professor Nils Mattson of Uppsala University in Sweden.

Alum, Research Fellow Goes to World Bank

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:14:57 +0000

UF law alumnus and Senior Research Fellow Craig Hammer— a recent graduate who co-authored a number of papers with Professor Winston Nagan — has been hired as a Junior Associate at the World Bank.

Hammer will work with the Program to Develop New Bank Practices in Civic Engagement, Empowerment and Respect for Diversity, which manages a number of the organization’s experimental projects. He received the call from the World Bank last Monday, Sept. 19, and reported for work two days later. While the pace of the hiring was swift, Nagan said, it did not come as a complete surprise: Hammer had worked as a consultant for the organization over recent months.

“Craig does bang-up research, and once they got the chance to work with him, I think the people at the World Bank recognized his talent,” Nagan said.

Student Works to Curb Human Rights Abuses in Peru

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:09:28 +0000

Law student Ray Dieppa spent the summer in South America, helping in the prosecution of Peruvian soldiers accused of human rights abuses.

Dieppa worked with Peru’s Institute for Legal Defense, or IDL, a non-governmental organization dedicated to curbing corruption in the Latin American nation.

“Peru is an incredible place for anyone who wishes to study or work in international law,” said Dieppa. “This is a country which only a few years ago was plagued by civil war, terrorism, and large scale human rights abuses. It was fascinating to work in a place where these issues were day to day reality and not just a part of history.”

Dieppa was among several UF students selected to participate in the UF International Center’s (UFIC) World Citizenship Program. Each year the program, headed by UFIC Dean and former U.S. Ambassador to Peru Dennis Jett, awards fellowships to students from an array of disciplines to work and live in countries across the developing world.

The program sent Dieppa to Lima, where he spent the summer working with a team of IDL attorneys and former military officers, urging the government to use the country’s civil code to prosecute military members accused of crimes against civilians.

“Unfortunately, in Peru soldiers often commit crimes like robbery and murder knowing they won’t be tried in civilian courts,” said Dieppa.

Dieppa said much of his work involved doing research in both English and Spanish and providing summaries of that research in Spanish to IDL lawyers. He also advised IDL on issues related to American foreign policy and political culture. More exchanges like Dieppa’s IDL internship may be in the works, thanks to the law school’s newly created Law and Policy Issues in the Americas Program.

Part of the Center for Governmental Responsibility, the new program will do research on topics related to rule of law throughout the Americas and will provide technical support to judicial reform efforts throughout the region.

Program director Meredith Fensom, recently returned from a Fulbright fellowship in Chile, said the program will forge more student exchanges between UF and Latin American institutions.