Mary Jane Angelo

Assistant Professor

• Presented “Rapanos, Carabell and Beyond” (an analysis of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions addressing jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act) at the Florida Wetlands Conference in Tampa, Nov. 17.

Lars Noah

Professor

• Published the 2nd edition of his casebook Law, Medicine, and Medical Technology with Foundation Press.

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

David H. Levin Chair in Family Law; Professor; Director, Center on Children and Families and Family Law Certificate Program; Co-Director, Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Evaluation (ICARE)

• Advised Fordham University in developing its multidisciplinary center on child advocacy. • Presented the keynote speech at St. John’s University’s Nov. 17 conference on “Race, Class, Culture and the Child Welfare Crisis.”

• Spoke at a ceremony in Phoenix in connection with the renaming of Arizona State’s law school in honor of retired Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. 

Michael Allan Wolf

Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law; Professor

• Spoke at the “Preservation 101” seminar sponsored by the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, Nov. 16, in Jacksonville on “Who’s Afraid of Property Rights?, Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Constitution.”

Steven J. Willis

Professor

• Published “People in Glass Houses” in 113 Tax Notes 477 (2006).

• Presented on the topic of “Family Law Economics: Ruminations on Property,” to Family Law Section of the Collier County Bar Association at its annual Family Law Conference

Joseph W. Little

Professor, Alumni Research Scholar

• Independent Florida Alligator, Nov. 14. Little will be representing Charles Grapski, who has been charged with felony wiretapping.

• High Springs Herald, Nov. 17.  Successfully defended Charles Grapski and had the case against Grapski dismissed by the judge.

• University Wire, Nov. 17. Mentioned in an article about Charles Grapski’s victory against wiretapping charges. He acted as Grapski’s attorney.

Katheryn Russell-Brown

Professor; Director of Center for Study of Race and Race Relations

• C-Span, Nov. 19. Interviewed about her book Protecting Our Own:Race, Crime, and African Americans, following her appearance on a panel at the Miami Book Fai International

Michael L. Seigel

Professor

• Polish National television, Nov. 29. Interviewed regarding the extradition of Edward Mazur, a dual U.S. and Polish citizen who has been charged in Poland with hiring a hit man in connection with the June 1998 killing of the former Polish National Police Chief. Seigel was asked about the US-Poland Extradition Treaty and his views on whether Mazur will be extradicted given his U.S. citizenship.

Associate Dean for International Studies; Professor; Gerald A. Sohn Scholar; Director of International and Comparative Law
Certificate Program

• His revised two-volume treatise, Securities Counseling for Small and Emerging Companies, has just been published by Thomson/West.

• Appointed the Florida Liaison to the American Bar Association’s Business Law’s Committee on Corporate Laws.

Winston Nagan

Professor; Samuel T. Dell Research Scholar; Director, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Development

• Appointed as an acting judge on the High Court of South Africa, a court of law which, when constituted in 1994, inherited the jurisdiction of the provincial and local divisions of the Supreme Court of South Africa that was formally abolished following the postapartheid settlement.

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

David H. Levin Chair; Director, Center on Children and Families and Family Law Certificate Program; Co-Director, Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Evaluation (ICARE)

• Co-convened a conference (with Nancy Dowd) called “Bridges to Excellence”, gathering leaders of the major child advocacy centers around the country to discuss multidisciplinary methods.

• Presented at the Askew Institute Conference on “Abuse and Neglect: Building Partnerships to Meet Children’s Needs.”

Danaya C. Wright

Professor

• Inside UF, Nov. 14. Published column in “The Blog” on UF Senate Policy Councils, through which, she wrote, the Senate takes a proactive role in policy changes and guards the acdemic missionof UF. Wright currently serves as Faculty Senate Chair.

In the News

Meredith Fensom

Director, Law & Policy in the Americas Program

• Florida Trend, November. The 2006 Latin America Business Environment Report that she and UF Professor Terry McCoy, director of the Latin American Business Environment Program, published in September was cited in the magazine’s cover story. 

Michael Allan Wolf

Professor, Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law

• Daytona Beach News-Journal,  Nov. 9. Quoted in story on building height limits imposed by voters in two Volusia County cities,Ormond Beach and Edgewater. Wolf called it a classic illustration of why regional planning is needed in Florida. “This is not textbook land-use planning … this is what we call referendum zoning, when people vote to place regulation on newcomers,” he said.

• St. Petersburg Times , Nov. 12. Quoted in an articleon Amendment 8 to the Florida Constitution, which limits government’s ability to seize property for private development and passed overwhelmingly Nov. 7 with 69 percent of the vote. With the passage of the amendment, Florida homeowners now have more protections than almost any other state against eminent domain for private development. “This takes decisions away from the officials closestto the problems that are facing local governments. It’s unnecessary,” Wolf said.

Danaya C. Wright

Professor

• Inside Higher ED, Nov. 9. Quoted in an article on her perspective of UF Pressident Bernie Machen’s Academic Enhancement Program that would charge students every semester and bring in more money without a technical raise in tuition. Wright currently serves as Faculty Senate Chair.

• Miami Herald, Nov. 11. In an article that once again looked at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences financial situation and Machen’s Academic Enhancement Plan, she said the problem had been known for years.