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Faculty Scholarship & Activities

• Published "Dover Judicata: How Much Should Florida Courts Be Influenced by Delaware Corporate Law Decisions?" 83 Fl. Bar J. 20 (2009).

• Published "Review of Steven J. Heyman, Free Speech and Human Dignity," 119 Ethics 367 (2009) (this publication was announced last week with an incorrect citation).

• Received a Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) award for the summer and fall 2009 term, during which time she will prepare the second edition of "Legal Writing by Design" (2001), along with a teacher's manual and a guide to be used by judges in training their clerks to write orders, judgments, and opinions.

• Published Dispute Resolution and Lawyers (4th ed. West 2009) (with Westbrook, Guthrie, Reuben, Robbenholt & Welsh).
• Presented the annual Saltman Lecture, "Further Beyond Reason: Emotions, the Core Concerns, and Negotiation," University of Nevada (Las Vegas) Boyd School of Law (March 2009).

• Presented "Property, Privacy, and Secrecy," Boston College Law School, Publicity, Privacy, and Intellectual Property Meet the First Amendment (April 2009).

• Received a Faculty Enhancement Opportunity (FEO) award for the summer and fall 2009 terms,during which time she will write a textbook to be used by the Legal Drafting faculty in the Legal Drafting course.

• Honored with the Teacher of the Year award at the Barristers Ball (April 2009).

• A team from the Center on Children and Families including Dr. Lauren Fasig and Professors Burke, Dowd, King, Rawls, Woodhouse and Worrell, received high marks from judges who attended a workshop on "Family Lawyers in the 21st Century" at the Annual Conference of the Florida Association of Family and Conciliation Courts.
• Presented a talk at the Center for Childhood Studies at Rutgers University on a Global Perspective on Children's Rights (April 16) and another talk on April 17th at Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law on her book, "Hidden in Plain Sight: the Tragedy of Children's Rights from Ben Franklin to Lionel Tate" (Princeton 2008).

• Presented "Hogwarts, the Family, and the State: Forging Identity and Virtue in Harry Potter," Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities (Boston, April 2009).