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• Published "Harnessing the Power of Science in Environmental Law: Why We Should, Why We Don't, and How We Can," 86 Texas Law Review 1527 (2008).

Randall Clark
Visiting Assistant Professor

• Published "Bleedings, Purges, and Vomits: Dr. Benjamin Rush's Republican Medicine, the Bilious Remitting Yellow-Fever Epidemic of 1793, and the Non-Origin of the Law of Informed Consent," 24 J. Contemporary Health Law and Policy 209 (2008).

Stuart Cohn
Associate Dean for International Studies; Professor; Gerald A. Sohn Scholar; Director of International and Comparative Law Certificate Program

• Published "Aleksandra Krawcewicz, Freeze-Outs and Squeeze-Outs in American and Polish Law: Comparison, Contrasts and Reform Recommendation," 8 Warsaw University Law Review 38 (2008).

Mark Fenster
Professor of Law, UF Research Foundation Professor

• Published the revised second edition of "Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture" (University of Minnesota)
• Presented "Democratic Property Ownership and the Commodification of Community" (University of Colorado Law School, June 2008 property conference)
• Presented "The Dilemmas of Local Transparency" (Law & Society Association annual meeting, Montreal, May 2008)

Michael Gordon
John H. & Mary Lou Dasburg Professor of Law

• Published International Civil Dispute Resolution(with Baldwin, Brand and Epstein) (West. 2nd ed. 2008)
• Was elected as a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation
• Testified as an expert on foreign law in a trial in the Supreme Court of Bermuda in July.

Jeffrey Harrison
Stephen C. O'Connell Professor

• Published "Wojciech J. Kocot, Comparing Promises: A US and Polish Perspective," 8 Warsaw University Law Review 72 (2008).

Joe Jackson
Legal Skills Professor

• Published "Approaches to Compromise: A Comparative Analysis of the Constitutions of the United States and the Republic of Poland," 8 Warsaw University Law Review 83 (2008).

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

• The National Law Journal, August 28, 2008
  Quoted in an article on the upcoming visit from the Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts. "To have the chief justice of our nation judge our Final Four Moot court Competition is a great privilege for our students and the University of Florida," said Robert Jerry, dean of the College of Law, in a written statement. "It is a tremendous understatement to say that it has elevated both the significance of this annual event and the anxiety levels of our student competitors."

Lyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor

• Participated on a panel titled "The Phases and Faces of the Duke LaCrosse Controversy" at the SEALS meeting, July 27-August 2.

Jon Mills
Professor; Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility; Dean Emeritus

• Published "Two Contemporary Privacy Issues in Poland: Liability for Internet Publication and the Registration of Communist Party Affiliation," 8 Warsaw University Law Review 110 (2008).

Winston Nagan
Professor; Samuel T. Dell Research Scholar; Director, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Development; Affiliate Professor of Anthropology

• Published "The Rise of Outsourcing in Modern Warfare: Sovereign Power, Private Military Actors, and the Constitutive Process" (with Craig Hammer), 60 Maine L. Rev. 430-460 (2008).
• Published "Globalism from an African Perspective: The Training of Lawyers for a New and Challenging Reality" (with Marcio Santos), 17 Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems 414-463 (2008).

Don Peters
Director of Institute for Dispute Resolution; Trustee Research Fellow; Professor; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families

• Published with Eva Gmurzynska, "Yes We Can: Overcoming Barriers to Mediating Private Commercial Disputes," 8 Warsaw University Law Review 122(2008).

Elizabeth Rowe
Associate Professor

• Presented "Who Are These People? New Generation Employees and Trade Secrets' (2008 Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, August 8, 2008).
• Palm Beach Post, Aug. 27, 2008
  Quoted in an article investigating the NCAA trying to block fantasy leagues' move into college football. Rowe said she believes that courts treat sports figures differently than other public figures, including film and music stars whose likenesses are almost always protected. When it comes to sports, the courts "tend to lean more toward letting the public have it, letting the public get it for free," Rowe said.

Michael Seigel
Professor

• Received the Supreme Courts Commission on Professionalism and the Florida Bars Standing Committee on Professionalism 2008 Faculty Award on Professionalism, presented at the 2008 Florida Bar Convention in Boca Raton, Florida
• Presented a lecture titled, "U.S. Law and Procedure for White Collar Criminal Cases" at a CGR Training Program for Brazilian Judges and Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Tampa, Fla.

D. Daniel Sokol
Assistant Professor

• Published "Order Without (Enforceable) Law: Why Countries Enter into Non-Enforceable Competition Policy Chapters in Free Trade Agreements," 83 Chicago Kent L. Rev. 231 (2008)
• Presented "Managing the Regulatory Process: Regulating under Civil vs. Common Law and Cooperating Among Agencies" at the 24th PURC/World Bank International Training Program on Utility Regulation and Strategy (University of Florida).

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
David H. Levin Chair in Family Law; Professor; Director, Center on Children and Families and Family Law Certificate Program; Co-Director, Institute for Child and Adolescent Research and Evaluation (ICARE)

• Spoke at the National Association of Counsel for Children in Savannah, Georgia on Aug. 4, 2008 where a plenary session was devoted to her book, "Hidden in Plain Sight: The Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate."

Henry T. Wihnyk
Director, Research & Writing and Appellate Advocacy; Senior Legal Skills Professor

• Published "Legal Writing: A Skill Polish Law Students Should Master in Law School," 8 Warsaw University Law Review 148 (2008).

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