Faculty Scholarship & Activities

Faculty

Mary Jane Angelo
Associate Professor

Published article “Regulating Evolution for Sale: An Evolutionary Biology Model for Regulating the Unnatural Selection of Genetically Modified Organisms,” in the Wake Forest Law Review.

Patricia E. Dilley
Professor

Her remarks at the 2006 AALS meeting of the Employee Benefits Section have been published as “Reinventing Retirement: Reforming Social Security, Medicare, and Private Pension Plans,” in 10 Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal, No. 2 (2006).

Mark A. Fenster
Professor

Published book review, “Waller: ‘Thurman Arnold: A Biography,’” in the Michigan Law Review (2007).

Published “Regulating Land Use in a Constitutional Shadow: The Institutional Contexts of Exactions,” in the Hastings Law Journal (2007).
Published “The Folklore of Legal Biography,” in the Michigan Law Review (2007) (review essay).
Published “Takings, Version 2005: The Legal Process of Constitutional Property Rights,” in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (2007).
Published “Coolhunting the Law,” in the Harvard Negotiation Law Review (2007) (symposium essay).

Richard H. Hiers
Affiliate Professor Emeritus

Published article, “Institutional Academic Freedom or Autonomy Grounded Upon the First Amendment: A Jurisprudential Mirage,” in Hamline Law Review (2007). The article demonstrates that even though many learned judges, commentators and Supreme Court Justices assume or assert otherwise, the Supreme Court has never held that academic institutions, themselves, are entitled to academic freedom under the First Amendment.

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

Published essay “Reflections on Leadership,” appearing in the Winter 2007 issue of the University of Toledo Law Review (on the Leadership in Legal Education Symposium VII).

Diane H. Mazur
Professor

Published article, “Military Values in Law,” in a special issue of the Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy. The issue also includes transcribed remarks from two presentations she gave at the 2006 National Lesbian and Gay Law Foundation Conference and a 2007 symposium at Harvard Law School.

William H. Page
Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law; Professor

Published article, “Communications and Concerted Action,” in the Spring 2007 issue of the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal.
Moderated panel on “Class Certification: Is there a Trend Toward More Rigorous Analysis?” at the ABA Antitrust Section’s Spring Meeting in April 2007 in Washington, DC.

Christopher L. Peterson
Associate Professor

Testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Development's Subcommittee on Securities, Investments, and Insurance on the subject of “Subprime Mortgage Market Turmoil: Examining the Role of Securitization.” The committee is considering legislation that would enact recommendations Peterson will make in an article forthcoming in the Cardozo Law Review.
The National Association of Consumer Agency Administrators (NACAA) recently awarded Peterson its Consumer Advocate of the Year Award for 2007 for his research on predatory lending and his advocacy for legislation adopted last year by Congress that caps the interest rate lenders may charge military personnel.

Elizabeth A. Rowe
Assistant Professor

Published “Saving Trade Secret Disclosure on the Internet Through Sequential Preservation,” in the Wake Forest Law Review (2007).

Christopher Slobogin
Stephen C. O’Connell Chair; Affiliate Professor of Psychiatry; Adjunct Professor, University of South Florida Mental Health Institute

Published article, “Dangerousness and Expertise Redux,” in the Emory Law Journal (Spring 2007).
Published commentary, “The Liberal Assault on the Fourth Amendment,” in the Spring 2007 issue of the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law.
Presented, “Datamining by the Government,” which was delivered to the Center for Internet and Society at the Stanford Law School on April 16.

Walter O. Weyrauch
Distinguished Professor; Stephen C. O’Connell Chair

Presented lecture on March 19 on “Romani Legal Traditions and Culture,” in a series sponsored, inter alia, by the UF Center for European Studies.

Steven J. Willis
Professor; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families

Published the second edition (with Jones, Brennen, and Moran) of his West casebook, The Tax Law of Charities and Other Exempt Organizations: Cases, Materials, Questions, and Activities.

Danaya C. Wright
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor

Presented “The Legacy of Colonialism: Religion, Law, and Women’s Rights in India,” at the Washington and Lee School of Law on March 30.