April 15, 2013 | Volume XIX, Issue 28
Published: Mar 18th, 2013
Albie Sachs, retired Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and life-long freedom fighter in the struggle against apartheid, will speak about gay marriage at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Tuesday, March 26 – the same day the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case [...]
Published: Mar 18th, 2013
Capture“Electronic Discovery for the Small and Medium Case” is just around the corner, so don’t forget to register today. The conference, co-sponsored by UF Law and the Electronic Discovery Reference Model, will be held April 4-5 at UF Law and will also be available as a live, online stream.
Published: Mar 18th, 2013
Professor Larry DiMatteo was asked to co-chair a conference; Professor Tom Lin was a feature speaker at a UCLA forum; and Dean Robert Jerry and Professors Joseph Little, Jon Mills and Carl Schwait were quoted in the media.
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
While the idea sounds absurd today, up until the 1940s it was not uncommon for property deeds to include clauses that restricted the sale of property to whites only. In 1948, the Supreme Court ruled against these racially restrictive covenants and the [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
UF Law hosted the second annual Youth Law and Justice Conference on Feb. 26. The day-long event brought more than 70 local middle and high school students to campus for discussions raising awareness of legal issues affecting today’s youth. [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
A leading legal expert from Georgetown University Law Center will discuss the implications of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last year on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, during the 32nd annual Dunwody Distinguished [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
Last week, I participated in one of the most enjoyable and illuminating environmental conferences that I have attended in the last 20 or 30 years. The students at the University of Florida law school organized and hosted a riveting two-day conference on the [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
More than a year after the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, legal, social and cultural questions raised by the case are still being discussed across the country. The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations will analyze a number of these questions during the [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
Should false statements of fact be protected under the First Amendment? That was the question at issue in United States v. Alvarez, a 2012 U.S. Supreme Court case overturning the [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
“The American story is an immigrant story,” Professor Tom C. W. Lin said as he opened “Immigrants and the American Experience” a panel held at UF Law on Feb 26. Together, three distinguished UF Law professors of immigrant background offered their views on immigration to inspire [...]
