January 21, 2008 | Vol. XI, Issue 18

Faculty Scholarship & Activities

Collier Charles W. Collier
Professor; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy

Published article, "Terrorism as an Intellectual Problem," in 55 Buffalo L. Rev. 815 (2007).

Dilley Patricia E. Dilley
Professor

Spoke on "Work and Insitutions" at session on "Gender and Class: Voices from the Collective," held by the Section on Women in Legal Education and co-sponsored by several other sections at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, held Jan. 2-6.

Alyson C. Flournoy
Professor; Director of Environmental and Land Use Law Program; UF Research Foundation Professor

Moderated the program of the Section on Environmental Law on "Responses to a Changing Climate" at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, Jan. 2-6.

Jerry Robert H. Jerry, II
Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Professor

Published the 4th edition of his treatise, Understanding Insurance Law, published by LexisNexis; on this edition, Douglas Richmond joined Jerry as co-author.

Lidsky Lyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor

Published article with co-author Tera Jackowski Peterson, titled "Medium-Specific Regulation of Attorney Advertising: A Critique," in 18 U. Fla. J. of Law & Public Policy 259 (2007).
Published article, "U.S. Media Law Update," in 12 Media & Arts L. Rev. 387 (2007).
Spoke at the University of Louisville's First Amendment Discussion Forum in December, presenting a paper titled "Lies and the First Amendment."

Moffat Robert C.L. Moffat
Professor; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy

Served on the Dr. Jack Kevorkian panel at UF discussing physician assisted suicide and the rights of Americans, which was held at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center Jan. 15.

Seigel Michael Seigel
Professor

Published "Corporate America Fights Back: The Battle Over Waiver of the Attorney Client Privilege," at 49 Boston College L. Rev. 1 (2008).

UF Law Faculty in the News

Lidsky Lyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor

St. Petersburg Times, Jan. 16. Quoted in an article discussing the recent announcement that MySpace has come to an agreement with law enforcement authorities across the country to increase security for underage kids. Experts said it would be extraordinarily difficult to establish age verification mechanisms on the Internet and said the biggest value of the announcement may have been in the publicity and goodwill it earned MySpace. "The technology is not entirely there yet," said Lyrissa Lidsky, who studies Internet law. "Age verification systems are notoriously difficult to implement." Partly because of court rulings, legislation to protect minors from lewd content on the Internet often fails to meet free speech standards, she said.

Moffat Robert C.L. Moffat
Professor; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy

First Coast News, Jan. 16, 2008; Orlando Sentinel, Jan, 16, 2008; Bay News 9, Jan. 16, 2008; Miami Herald, Jan. 16, 2008; Examiner.com, Jan. 16, 2008; FlaToday.com, Jan. 16, 2008; FloridaToday.com, Jan. 16, 2008; WOOD TV 8, Jan. 16, 2008. Quoted in the article discussing Dr. Jack Kevorkian’s Jan. 15 appearance at UF where Moffat served on the panel discussion after the speech. Moffat said he was in favor of assisted suicide. "I favor liberty in general. There is no social interest in making people stay alive who do not want to be alive," he said.

Wolf Michael Allan Wolf
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law; Professor

The Orlando Sentinel, Jan. 14. Interviewed regarding the various legal issues that will arise after a slew of lawsuits in connection with the I-4 pileup that took the lives of four people and injured many others. Wolf said the Florida Legislature reviews claims on a case-by-case basis and is under no obligation to approve them. “There's no guarantee that . . . [a lawsuit] is going to work with the jury," Wolf said, offering his professional opinion. “And then there's no guarantee the Legislature will decide to fund it with a payment to exceed the maximum” of $200,000 under the law. “If you're a plaintiff's attorney, they're going to argue there were 10 accidents," Wolf said. "The state will argue it was one big accident.”