April 15, 2013 | Volume XIX, Issue 28
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
“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 [...]
Published: Mar 11th, 2013
Professors Lyrissa Lidsky, Joseph Little, Diane Mazur, Winston Nagan, Meshon Rawls and Monique Haughton Worrell appeared in various media sources; Professors Paul Gugliuzza and Michael Allan Wolf presented talks nationally; and Professor Wentong Zheng participated in a roundtable discussion at the White House.
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
During an event co-sponsored by the UF Black Law Students Association and the UF Federalist Society last Wednesday, it quickly became evident that there are many considerations to be made in the debate over the merits and effectiveness of affirmative action in the university admissions process. [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
At the behest of a who’s who of Florida politicians, the foyer of Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell in downtown Orlando was packed with 70 people for an evening fundraiser. The crowd gathered on behalf of UF Law students and in honor of the “defender of the Everglades.” Friends and colleagues said Thom Rumberger [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
Lauren “LB” Hannahs came to the University of Florida Levin College of Law to play games and lead a lively presentation about acceptance and political correctness of the gay community. Sponsored by the Diversity and Community Relations Committee and OUTLaw, UF Law’s gay-straight alliance [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
More than a year after the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, many 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 10th annual [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
The Fernandez family has come full circle. It started with their days in Cuba – where Keith Fernandez’s grandparents Miguel and Eloisa Fernandez received only an elementary education – to the present day, where Keith Fernandez will graduate with his juris doctorate from UF Law in May. [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
From pulling the trigger on the battlefield to pushing a button behind a computer screen, the development of drone use is a fiery subject, and one that sparked discussion at a Federalist Society presentation Feb. 13 at the law school. The talk was led by veteran and professor Michael W. Lewis [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
Two Colombian law professors visited UF Law on Feb. 18-19 as part of the Center for Governmental Responsibility’s project on “Building Human Rights Capacity in the Colombian Caribbean,” a three-year project based on capacity-building for law schools in relation to the human rights curriculum. [...]
Published: Feb 25th, 2013
Professor Dale served as editor-in-chief of the first volume of a journal; Professor Davis was appointed by Chief Justice Ricky Polston to the Supreme Court standing Mediator Qualifications Board; Professor Dekle was interviewed by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Professor Dowd gave two lectures at Willamette University; Professor Marian presented a work-in-progress at FSU; Professor Mazur was quoted in a Foreign Policy magazine article; Professor Nance was published in Stanford Law Review Online; Professor Nunn was interviewed by the Orlando Sentinel; Professor Rowe served as a panelist at the American Intellectual Property Law Association’s Mid-Winter Institute; Professor Stinneford’s paper was published; Professor Wolf made a presentation at the Nelson Symposium and made a presentation at the University of Utah; and Professor Zheng presented a work-in-progress at the University of Tennessee, a paper at the Cato Institute and was a panelist at “Understanding State Capitalism” in D.C.
