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March 24, 2008 | Vol. XI, Issue 26


Faculty Scholarship & Activities

LearElizabeth T. Lear
Professor

  • Published article, "National Interests, Foreign Injuries, and Federal Forum Non Conveniens," 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 559 (2007), which came out in December.



LidskyLyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor

  • Presented paper "The Implied Audience of First Amendment Speech" as a faculty enrichment lecture at William Mitchell Law School on February 21 and at Loyola Chicago Law School on Feb. 25 and presented this article to the American Constitution Society on March 4.
  • Moderated a panel discussion on the tort of false light in the Florida Supreme Court in conjunction with a trip to Tallahassee by UF law students to hear oral arguments in an important false light case on March 5.

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

  • Invited as one of four panelists in an Immigration Law Symposium entitled "A New Year And The Old Debate: Has Immigration Reform Reformed Anything?," held at Chapman University School of Law on Feb. 20, with sponsorship by the NEXUS Journal of Opinion.

SloboginChristopher Slobogin
Stephen C. O’Connell Chair; Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida Mental Health Institute; Associate Director, Center for Children and Families

  • Spoke on "Psychological Issues in Criminal Cases" at the Annual Meeting of the American-Psychology-Law Society on March 5.
  • Spoke on "Therapeutic Justice and Criminal Justice" at Florida Coastal Law School on March 6.
  • Spoke on "Government and Records Privacy" at a symposium at Harvard Law School on March 13.


UF Law Faculty in the News

LidskyLyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor

  • www.worldhum.com, Mar. 6. Mentioned in the travel blog titled, "When Adventure Tourism Kills," which referenced her recent interview that ran in Time Magazine, about the possible tort lawsuit against a Bahamian dive company that may be responsible for the death of an attorney from Australia.
  • AM850 Radio, Mar. 14. Interviewed about the social networking site of Ashley Dupre, who is the call girl at the center of the prostitution scandal that prompted New York Governor Eliot Spitzer to resign in disgrace. Lidsky said everyone should know there is very little privacy over the Internet. Any time people access information that is in a digital form they can replicate it endlessly, she said, and that information is only private until someone is interested in it. Lidsky added you can never count on restricting something on the Internet to one audience, and you shouldn't. She said it should be obvious Spizer shouldn't have trusted this woman in giving her the private information that he did.

MillsJon L. Mills
Professor; Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility; Dean Emeritus

  • The Gainesville Sun, Mar. 10. Interviewed for an article that explores the frustration of local Democrats who are fearful over the dilemma in which the party now finds itself in as a result of the state's early primary, saying Florida's delegates must have a say in the selection of a presidential nominee or risk losing political credibility. Mills, a former Speaker of the House in Florida, said he cannot recall a similar situation. He said something will have to be done or the party risks losing the enthusiasm of Democrats during the general election. And it creates something of a legal conflict: parties have a right to their own rules but an elected government sets the voting day. "The citizen is caught between government and the party. The selection process is critical and your vote in that is, one can argue, almost as important as your vote in any general election," Mills said. "This is going to be amazing because no matter what happens, it isn't going to be typical. So we are going, within eight years, to two totally unique situations."

SeigelMike Seigel
Professor

  • St. Petersburg Times, Mar. 7. Quoted in an article about a mother who has been arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter after she allowed her 14-year-old son to drive her car that crashed and killed a young girl, Seigel said just handing the boy the keys would not be enough to constitute reckless behavior. "They have to prove that she was aware of the likelihood that he would drive recklessly," Seigel said.

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