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Faculty Scholarship & Activities

• Presented "World's Colliding: Land Use in a Developing State (the case of Costa Rica)" at the 58th annual University of Florida Latin America Conference entitled "The Urban Divide in Latin America: Challenges and Strategies for Social Inclusion" (January 2009).

• Presented "Restoring Old Age Income Security for Low Wage Single Workers" at the National Academy of Social Insurance's annual conference roundtable discussing "Strengthening Social Security for Vulnerable Groups," Washington, D.C. (January 2009).

• Published International Business Transactions in a Nutshell (West; 8th ed. 2009) (with Ralph Folsom & John Spanogle).

• Appointed a Senior Editor of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy, and for being quoted by the PR Newswire article, "Marine General Questions Obama Plan to Study Gay Ban," (February 2009). http://sev.prnewswire.com/aerospace-defense/20090203/DC6624403022009-1.html

• Feb. 2, 2009, Ocala Star Banner
  Mills warns against changing water management policy that has been successful through the years. Mills, a law professor at the University of Florida, and a 10-year veteran of the Florida House, including serving as its speaker, said the existing set-up was first devised to "de-politicize" water, and it has been a success. "The current system has worked pretty well, across a wide range of governors," Mills noted. The system now allows people who are not politically gifted but technically competent to serve and shape policy. "It seems to me we should be leery of throwing out the entire process," Mills said.

• Published "Protocol to the Torture Convention and US Policy" in La Creacion del Mecanismo Espanol de Prevencion de la Tortura, Menendez & Romero, eds. (IUSTEL, Spain 2009).

• Feb 11, 2009, Computerworld
  Page was used as a single-source expert for a in-depth article on the EU’s pursuit of Microsoft over new charges that Internet Explorer stifles browser competition. The European Union's pursuit of Microsoft Corp. over new charges that Internet Explorer (IE) stifles browser competition is "silly" and "dumb," a noted antitrust expert said today. "I just don't see what it adds to the final judgment in the U.S. case," said William Page, the co-author of The Microsoft Case: Antitrust, High Technology, and Consumer Welfare (University of Chicago Press, 2009). "OEMs are already free to delete most of the visible evidence of [Internet Explorer] and to install another browser if they want." Read more»

• Presented "The Human Players in the Data Security Game," at the Information Security Best Practices: Interactive Media, Consumer Behavior and Law Conference, Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania (January 2009).

• Feb. 6, 2009, Sarasota Herald Tribune
  Seigel explains that the government can only hold Arthur Nadel, accused of looting tens of millions of dollars from hedge funds, for 30 days without an indictment. The government can only keep Nadel in custody for 30 days without an indictment. For Nadel, that runs out Feb. 26. “So they have a very strong incentive to get an indictment on time,” said Michael Seigel, a University of Florida law professor who was first assistant U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida from 1995 through 1999. The case is textbook as far as the strategy the federal agents are using. Nadel was arrested on two basic felony counts, which take up only two pages of a nine-page arrest document created by an FBI agent. The document was sealed until Nadel turned himself in. Then it was made public and used to arrest him. That started the clock ticking. “So they bring in a very basic fraud indictment first,” Seigel said. “Even after they get the indictment, they can continue to investigate using the grand jury and then supercede the indictment, bring in an updated version of it.”

• Feb. 6, 2009, The Deal-Reuters
  Sokol was used as an anti-trust expert to talk about Christine Varney, the nominee for assistant attorney general for antitrust for the Dept of Justice and her plan to “energize the agency’s enforcement of competition laws." But any change from the status quo will likely be "far more subtle" than many antitrust lawyers might like, says Daniel Sokol, antitrust law professor at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law. "The courts and case law are stacked against serious reinvigoration," Sokol says.
• Presented "Competition Policy and Comparative Corporate Governance of State Owned Enterprises," at the BYU Law Review Symposium: "Evaluating Legal Origins Theory" (February 2009).