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Faculty Scholarship and Activities
Mary Jane Angelo
Associate Professor
- Contracted to publish Poison, Pests " Policy: The Coevolutoin of the Law of Science and Pestisides (Ashgate Publishing Ltd. forthcoming 2010).
George "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).
Nancy 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).
Ewa 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.
Berta 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).
Rachel 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).
Robert 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).
Lyrissa 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).
Diane 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).
Lars 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.
Juan 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).
Michael 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.
Daniel 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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