News Briefs March 23, 2009
Published: Mar 23rd, 2009
2009-2010 law school calendar photo contest Are you a photographer who would like to see your work in print? This year, the Communications Office and Student Affairs is asking you [...]
Articles Tagged “Volume XII Issue 25” 
Social obligation: The court’s new concept for landowners
Published: Mar 23rd, 2009
The right to exclude others from private property is not what it used to be. That was the message recently delivered by Gregory Alexander, a prominent Cornell University land-use law [...]
UF law professor named to Judicial Nominating Commission for federal posts
Published: Mar 23rd, 2009
A University of Florida professor of law has been tapped to serve on the Florida Judicial Nominating Commission. Nominees recommended by the JNC for federal judges, U.S. attorneys and marshals [...]
IRS chief counsel talks tax policy at annual Graduate Tax lecture
Published: Mar 23rd, 2009
If the old adage that death and taxes are the only certain things in the world holds true, then perhaps Clarissa C. Potter, acting chief counsel for the Internal Revenue [...]
CSRRR lecture: “Celebrating Civil Rights in the Age of Obama”
Published: Mar 23rd, 2009
Last fall, in Baltimore County, Maryland, Professor Sherrilyn Ifill’s neighbor debuted a “brand-spanking-new” confederate flag in front of his home. It had been only days since the election of Barack [...]
Distinguished alumni to be honored at graduation
Published: Mar 17th, 2008
Graduation will be Friday, May 15, at 2 p.m. in the O’Connell Center. Four UF Distinguished Alumnus awards will be presented at commencement: Judge Rosemary Barkett (JD 70), our alumnus [...]
Florida Law Review student notes & comments selected for publication
Published: Mar 17th, 2008
The Florida Law Review is pleased to announce the selection of 8 notes and 3 comments for publication in its 2009-10 issues. Vincent Galuzzo’s note on P2P litigation was the [...]
Moot Court brings home victories from ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition
Published: Mar 17th, 2008
At the conclusion of the 2009 ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition, University of Florida’s Justice Campbell Thornal Moot Court team members claimed many victories. At the Boston Regional, the petitioner [...]
Florida Law Review tutoring program helps 1L students
Published: Mar 17th, 2008
This week the Florida Law Review concluded its year-long tutoring program for first-year law students. The program began in 2002 as a way to give back to the law school [...]
Legal Skills Professors receive FEO awards
Published: Mar 17th, 2008
Legal Skills Professors Leanne Pflaum and Anne Rutledge received Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) awards. Pflaum received the award for the summer and fall 2009 term, during which time she will [...]
