Faculty scholarship and activities
Jeffrey DavisProfessor
- August 26, 2009, Ocala Star Banner
Jeffrey Davis provided the Ocala Star Banner with a legal scenario when companies file for bankruptcy. Such litigation "all stops and usually...gets transferred into the bankruptcy court and gets resolved in bankruptcy court," according to Davis.
George "Bob" Dekle
Legal Skills Professor
- August 30, 2009, Florida Today
Dekle explained that evidence gathered in a case must be properly chosen and cataloged. Prosecutors have a responsibility to ensure that evidence doesn't merely conform to preconceived notions, said Dekle."You have to be wary," Dekle said. "You have to make dang sure it's the right evidence."
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Dekle shed light on the compensation and expectations of prosecuting a hit and run. The deferred prosecution agreement "looks reasonable," Dekle wrote in an e-mail."Traffic cases are usually not very serious, and making the victim whole in a hit-and-run case is the main objective," Dekle wrote. Dekle also said: "Of course, it isn't right to give a sweetheart deal to someone because they happen to be a public official. But it's also wrong to slam-dunk a public official with a more severe sentence than necessary in order to avoid looking like you're giving him a favorable disposition."
Nancy Dowd
Professor
- September 2, 2009, Gainesville Sun
Dowd provided her expert opinion on the rights of students under the First Amendment. She said the conflict over the shirt pits the First Amendment rights of the parents and children and the rights of the school, which are designed for the well-being of all children. "Students have First Amendment rights, but they are more limited" than those of adults, Dowd said in a phone interview prior to the meeting.
Michelle JacobsProfessor
- August 28, 2009,The Alligator
Jacobs discusses her class “Crime in the Virtual Context” using Second Life, a computer simulation that allows users to create computer versions of themselves and interact with each other in a virtual classroom. Jacobs said she already had her own Second Life persona when she discovered student-created Gator Nation Island and was both hesitant and excited to become involved with it on an academic level. “With any new technology you risk massive failure when you are an early adopter but the possible benefits were intriguing to me,” she said. “I’ll confess I was surprised to learn that people at UF were advanced enough to consider it.”
