FlaLaw » 2007 » January » 08 http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw University of Florida Levin College of Law Wed, 08 May 2013 21:40:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Scholarship and Activities: Robert Jerry http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2007/01/scholarship-and-activities-robert-jerry/ http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2007/01/scholarship-and-activities-robert-jerry/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 16:20:49 +0000 wsmitty@ufl.edu http://www.law.ufl.edu/wpflalaw/?p=1296 Robert H. Jerry, II

Dean, Levin Mabie and Levin Professor

The Miami Herald, Jan. 2.Coauthored an op-ed about the need for a national catastrophe fund and mitigation measures in preparing for natural disasters. His co-authors were James M. Loy, former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard and former deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, who is cochairman of ProtectingAmerica.org; and Steven E. Roberts, professorial lecturer in law at The George Washington University Law School and an attorney at Alston & Bird.

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Legal Skills Professor; Director, Criminal Law
Clinic-Prosecution

  • The Montgomery Advertiser, Nov. 22. Quoted in an article concerning jurors’ exposure to extraneous information in the bribery and conspiracy trial against former Alabama governor, Don Siegelman, and ex-HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy.
  • Palm Beach Post, Dec. 10. Quoted in an article concerning the Justice Administrative Commission’s fight with Richard Lubin, attorney for convicted wife-killer, Jeffrey Lamb, over his payment for defending Lamb.

 

]]> http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2007/01/scholarship-and-activities/feed/ 0 Riskin and Uphoff Join UF Law Faculty http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2007/01/riskin-and-uphoff-join-uf-law-faculty/ http://www.law.ufl.edu/flalaw/2007/01/riskin-and-uphoff-join-uf-law-faculty/#comments Mon, 08 Jan 2007 15:41:25 +0000 wsmitty@ufl.edu http://www.law.ufl.edu/wpflalaw/?p=1283 The UF Law faculty has been bolstered by the addition of two new professors this semester. Leonard L. Riskin, a noted authority in alternative dispute resolution, comes to UF from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he was C.A. Leedy Professor of Law and served as director of the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution from 1984 to 2002, and again from Summer 2004 to Summer 2006. Riskin has written several books and numerous articles on alternative dispute resolution, articles on law and medicine and torts, and essays for popular magazines. In recent years, he has written about the benefits of mindfulness meditation for lawyers and mediators. He also has been chair of the sections on Law and Medicine and Dispute Resolution of the Association of American Law Schools. Rodney J. Uphoff joins the faculty as a visiting professor and interim director of clinical and skills programs. He also comes to UF from the University of Missouri School of Law, where he was Elwood Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law and director of the University of Missouri South Africa Educational Program. Before joining the Missouri faculty in 2001, Uphoff taught at the University of Oklahoma for 11 years, where he served as their director of clinical education for three years. Uphoff also was one of the lawyers appointed to defend Terry Nichols in the Oklahoma bombing case.

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