FlaLaw » Volume X Issue 19

Scholarship and Activities: Michael R. Siebecker

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:10:35 +0000

Published article, “Corporate Speech, Securities Regulation and an Institutional Approach to the First Amendment,” which was recently published in the William and Mary Law Review.

Scholarship and Activities: Robert H. Jerry

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:10:17 +0000

Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Professor

Contributed a chapter, “Defining and Achieving Excellence,” in Law School Leadership Strategies, a book just published by Aspatore.

Scholarship and Activities: Jonathan R. Cohen

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:57:16 +0000

Professor; Associate Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution
• Published chapter, “The Culture of Legal Denial,” in The Affective Assistance of Counsel: Practicing Law as a Healing Profession, ed. Marjorie A. Silver (Carolina Academic Press, 2007).

‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’ Adds Spark to Discussion on Racial Issues

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 17:15:59 +0000

A series of several high-profile incidents in recent months have again brought attention to the subject of racial issues and will serve as the launching point for discussion at an upcoming event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations.

Mel Gibson’s anti- Semitic meltdown, Michael Richards’ “N word” rant, Rosie O’Donnell’s “comedic” caricature of Asians, and more serious cases involving the fatal undercover police killings of Sean Bell and Kathryn Johnston are but some of the topics to be discussed at “A Series of Unfortunate Events? A Look at Race,” Feb. 26, from noon until 2 p.m., in Room 355B Holland Hall.

Panelists include Milagros Peña, director of the Center For Women’s Studies and Gender Research and Associate Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at UF; Faye Harrison, professor of African American Studies and Anthropology at UF and author of Resisting Racism and Xenophobia: Global Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Human Rights; and UF Law Professor Kenneth Nunn. Jabari Asim, a syndicated columnist for The Washington Post and author of The N Word: Who Can Say It, Who Shouldn’t and Why, will give the keynote. Florida State Senator Anthony C. Hill, Sr. will make opening remarks. For more information, contact the center at csrrrr@law.ufl.edu or 273-0614.

Congratulations to UF’s Judicial Law Clerks

wsmitty@ufl.edu — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:20:20 +0000

Congratulations to the UF Law students and grads who have secured judicial clerkships. Pictured above from left are John Rains, who will clerk for Judge Edward Carnes, U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Montgomery, Alabama; Christine Menendez, who will clerk for Judge Susan Cawthon Bucklew, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Tampa; and Derek Dilberian, who will clerk for Judge Kevin Thomas Duffy, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in Manhattan.

Other law students selected for clerkships are Susan Warner, who will clerk for Judge Virginia Hernandez Covington, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida in Jacksonville; Joshua Curry, who will clerk for Magistrate Judge Elizabeth Timothy, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida in Pensacola; and Yelizaveta (Liz) Batres, who will clerk for Judge Barry J. Stone, 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach.

The state and federal court systems offer invaluable experiences for law students and graduates. Keep your eye out for upcoming programming in March about the federal judicial clerkship system, staff attorney positions, and other career paths in our judiciary.