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UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAWMarch 16, 2009 | Vol. XII, Issue 24

In This Issue

IRS Chief Counsel to deliver UF Graduate Tax Program Lecture March 20
Renowned constitutional law scholar to speak about Florida Supreme Court and 2000 election
Weyrauch Distinguished Lecture in Family Law to be delivered by GWU family law professor and author
LawLawPalooza to showcase students in talent show
Loan Ranger to conduct workshop: “Defending Florida Residential Foreclosure”
ESPN legal analyst to deliver UF Center for Governmental Responsibility lecture
Conservation Clinic helps solve boating issues in Bradenton Beach
Alumni Profile: Bruce Bokor
Dekle and Seigel talk about murder-for-hire crimes in St. Petersburg Times

News Briefs

UF Documentary Institute hosts screening of death penalty film
Music Night 2009 hosted by Dean Jerry
Former U.S. Senator and Florida Governor Bob Graham and Former Costa Rican Presidential Candidate and University of Florida Bacardi Eminent Scholar Otton Solis to lecture in Costa Rica Program
ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition teams dominate Boston regional
Time is running out to apply for financial aid
Military Justice team wins second place
Financial aid for Florida Bar prep and exam

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Faculty Scholarship and Activities

AngeloMary Jane Angelo
Associate Professor
  • Contracted to publish Poison, Pests " Policy: The Coevolutoin of the Law of Science and Pestisides (Ashgate Publishing Ltd. forthcoming 2010).




DekleGeorge "Bob" Dekle
Legal Skills Professor
  • Feb. 28, 2009, Palm Beach Post
    Dekle was used a an expert to talk about school bullying and when crime calls for juveniles to be charged as an adult. Dekle, a longtime assistant state attorney in North Florida and now a law professor at the University of Florida, doesn't believe Stockstill's age had anything to do with the timing of the arrest. "The person is no longer a juvenile and there could be real difficulties charging an adult in juvenile court," Dekle said.
  • March 3, 2009, St. Pete Times and ScrippsNews
    Dekle and Seigel talked about past experiences prosecuting murder-for-hire crimes. “I've heard of people killed for as little as a carton of cigarettes,” retired prosecutor Bob Dekle said from Gainesville. He worked out of Lake City for 30 years and prosecuted Ted Bundy. He now teaches at the University of Florida's law school. “I wish I had kept a list," he said, “of all the piddling amounts people killed for.”
  • Made two presentations: “Cross Examining Expert Witnesses,” Florida Traffic Safety Resource Prosecutor Program (February 2009); and "Circumstantial Evidence" and "Closing with the Evidence,” National District Attorneys Association seminar on Evidence for Prosecutors (March 2009, Orlando).

DowdNancy Dowd
Chesterfield Smith Professor; Co-Director, Center on Children and Families
  • Contracted to publish The Man Question: Feminist Jurisprudence, Masculinities and Law (NYU Press forthcoming 2010).
  • Published "Masculinities and Feminist Legal Theory," 23 Wisconsin J. of Law, Gender & Society 201 (2008).



GmurzynskaEwa Gmurzynska
Director, Center for American Law Studies, Warsaw University
  • Sponsored the Jessup Moot Court team of the University of Warsaw, which placed second in the National Competition. Two of the three team members are students in UF's American Law Program. Steve Willis coached four of the practice sessions.



HernandezBerta Hernandez-Truyol
Levin Mabie and Levin Professor; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
  • Published "The Gender Bend: Culture, Sex, and Sexuality--A LatCritical Human Rights Map of Latina/O Border Crossings," 83 Indiana L. J. 1283 (2008).



InmanRachel Inman
Associate Dean for Students
  • Presented "The Law School Accreditation Process and the Shift to Including Law School 'Outcome Measures': Incorporating Professionalism into the Law School Curriculum" (panel), spring retreat of the Florida Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism and the Florida Bar's Standing Committee on Professionalism (March 2009, Orlando).



JerryRobert Jerry
Dean; Levin Mabie & Levin Professor of Law
  • Presented "Leadership Training and the Nexus with Professionalism," spring retreat of the Florida Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism and the Florida Bar's Standing Committee on Professionalism (March 2009, Orlando).



LidskyLyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor
  • Published “The Phases and Faces of the Duke Lacrosse Controversy: A Conversation,” 19 Seton Hall J. Sports & Ent. L. 181 (2009) (with James Coleman, Angela Davis, Michael Gerhardt, K.C. Johnson, & Howard M. Wasserman).



MazurDiane Mazur
Professor
  • Presented "A More Perfect Military: How the Constitution Can Make Our Military Stronger" (chapter from her forthcoming Oxford University Press Book) at "Breaking the Brass Ceiling: Legal Rights and Remedies for Women in the Armed Forces" (Harvard Law School, March 2009).



NoahLars Noah
Professor
  • Feb. 23, 2009, Wall Street Journal
    Noah was quoted in the Wall Street Journal as a medical technology expert regarding liability protection when developing new vaccines. "When you've got a monopoly and can dictate price in a way that you couldn't before, I'm not sure you need the liability protection," he said.



PereaJuan Perea
Cone Wagner Nugent Johnson, Hazouri and Roth Professor
  • Presented "And Deliver Us From Evil: The Constitutional Origins of Present-Day Servitude,” at the Annual Jack Pemberton Lecture on Workplace Justice, hosted by the Univ. of San Francisco Law School, and held at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (February 2009).



SeigelMichael Seigel
Associate Professor
  • March 3, 2009, St. Pete Times and ScrippsNews
    Dekle and Seigel talked about past experiences prosecuting murder-for-hire crimes. “It's based on the level of sophistication of the players involved,” University of Florida law professor and former Tampa federal prosecutor Seigel said.


SokolDaniel Sokol
Assistant Professor
  • Presented “Examining the Dynamic Interlinkages between Public and Private Antitrust Litigation in the U.S. and the Determinants of Monopolization Case Decisions," George Washington University Law School (February 2009).


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