January 28, 2008 | Vol. XI, Issue 19

Faculty Scholarship & Activities

Rowe Elizabeth A. Rowe
Assistant Professor

Published "Introducing A Takedown for Trade Secrets on the Internet," in the Wisconsin Law Review.
Her article "Saving Trade Secret Disclosures on the Internet Through Sequential Preservation," was reprinted in the Boston College Intellectual Property & Technology Forum.

UF Law Faculty in the News

Fenster Mark Fenster
Professor

Wordpress.com Blog, Jan. 24. Quoted in this blog which discusses speculation that federal officials assisted in the 9/11 terrorist attacks or took no action to stop them so the United States could go to war in the Middle East, according to a new Scripps Howard/Ohio University poll. The blog referenced his book “Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture,” which said the poll’s findings reflect public anger at the unpopular Iraq war, realization that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction and growing doubts of the veracity of the Bush administration. “What has amazed me is not that there are conspiracy theories, but that they didn’t seem to be getting any purchase among the American public until the last year or so,” Fenster said. “Although the Iraq war was not directly related to the 9/11 attacks, people are now looking back at 9/11 with much more skepticism than they used to.”

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

The National Law Journal, Jan. 28. Quoted in an article discussing the recent cut in state funding and how it will affect Florida’s law school tuition. Facing this massive $1 billion shortfall in the state budget, law schools are planning on requesting a 10 percent tuition hikes next year—the maximum amount allowed by law. The University of Florida, possibly the most established law school, which has a rich donor base and was able to sell naming rights to its school, has been able to "hold even," Jerry said. UF raised tuition by 10 percent across the board this year and plans to do so next year, too, he said. Jerry emphasized that even with these tuition hikes, Florida law schools are among the lowest in the nation. Tuition at the Florida law schools is roughly $10,000 a year for in-state students and $30,000 a year for nonresidents.

Little Joseph W. Little
Professor; Alumni Research Scholar

Tampa Tribune, Jan. 18. Interviewed in an article discussing the recent feud between the state and Allstate Corporation. The company appealed an order forbidding it from doing future business in Florida after regulators expanded their ban from auto policies to all new insurance products the company sells. Little said the original strategy of singling out the auto business for sanctions might well have been deemed an abuse of due process. He cautioned that he's not in a position to address the Allstate case specifically, but, "as a general proposition, someone who's got an action of some kind involving one subject matter doesn't have the power to reach over into a different subject matter in order to try to put pressure on the side he does have the power to deal with," he said.