UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA LEVIN COLLEGE OF LAW
October 12, 2009 | Vol. XIII, Issue 7
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Faculty scholarship and activities

Andrade Attila Andrade Jr.
Visiting Professor
  • Andrade delivered a speech for the International Law Society on "International law and the Conflicts in Latin America today."
  • Andrade has launched his new book, O Capital Estrangeiro no Sistema Juridico Brasileiro ("Foreign Investment in the Brazilian Legal System")
Dawson George Dawson
professor
  • Oct. 6, 2009, Orlando Sentinel
    Dawson provided insight into mandatory arbitration and the move to change the laws.
    "But there are legitimate concerns about whether the current system is giving people a fair shake, said George Dawson, a law professor at the University of Florida. Even though business-vs.-business arbitration has worked well through the years, the process is different when it comes to business-vs.-customer disputes, he said. 'Some of the research does suggest there may be bias against consumers,' Dawson said. 'And though the courts have been favorable to arbitration, even when it is imposed, I think you're seeing some pushback against that now. People feel that since the courts have backed it, then you're just going to have to change the law.'"
Dowd Nancy Dowd
David H. Levin Chair in Family Law; Director, Center on Children & Families; Professor
  • Oct. 6, 2009, Sarasota Herald Tribune and Tampa Tribune
    Dowd provided her legal opinion on the difficulties of seeking assets based on same sex partnership. Read broadly, that could undermine legal claims for palimony, said University of Florida law professor and family law expert Nancy Dowd. Same-sex legal claims are especially vulnerable because "Florida has been pretty antagonistic to recognizing rights for same-sex couples," Dowd said. "If there is a business relationship, it wouldn't matter the sexual orientation of the partners," Dowd added.
  • Oct. 4, 2009, St. Pete Times
    Dowd said there are a lot of legal obstacles in a lawsuit to dissolve a marriage-type relationship that is being positioned as a business relationship. “To me, the challenges of this lawsuit are multiple,” said Nancy Dowd, a law professor at the University of Florida, after reviewing the complaint. She said she expects the opposing sides to debate whether the relationship was primarily personal or business.
  • Dowd contributed to An Encyclopedic Companion put out by Univeristy of Chicago Press (2009), along with Barbara Woodhouse.
  • Sept. 11-12
    Dowd spoke on the lead-off panel on the workshop “Masculinities and the Law” sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Emorty University. The talk was titled, “The Man Question: Feminist Jurisprudence, Masculinities and Law.”
  • Oct. 2
    Dowd was part of a roundtable at the XIV Annual LatCrit Conference held in Washington, D.C., on the subject “Understanding an Insider Status: Masculinities and Law”
Hernandez-Truyol Berta Hernandez-Truyol
Levin Mabie & Levin Professor of Law
  • Hernandez-Truyol gave roundtable presentations at the XIV Annual LatCrit Conference in Washington in early October. Berta's presentation, "Gender, Culture, and Left Governance" - Interrogating what is "Left" was part of a roundtable titled, "Gender, Cultural Difference, and Left Governance."
Jerry Robert Jerry
Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Professor
  • Dean Jerry's chapter "What is Insurance?", which is Chapter 1 in what will eventually be the 16-volume “New Appleman on Insurance,” has been published electronically (along with the rest of Volume 1) by LexisNexis. The paper version of Volume 1 is slated for publication later this month.
Klein Christine Klein
Professor
  • Klein published "The Environmental Deficit: Applying Lessons from the Economic Recession," 51 Arizona L. Rev. 651 (2009).
Mills Jon Mills
Professor; Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility; Dean Emeritus
  • Oct. 5, 2009, Orlando Sentinel "The amount of information collected in litigation is enormous," said Jon Mills, a University of Florida law professor and former state House speaker who chaired the first "privacy" committee. "This is the classic horse out of the barn analogy. Once information has gone on the Web, it's sort of gone."
Perea Juan Perea
Cone Wagner Nugent Johnson, Hazouri and Roth Professor
  • Oct. 6, 2009
    Perea presented his current work in progress, "Destined for Servitude," at a faculty colloquium at Seton Hall Law School on Tuesday
Sneirson Judd Sneirson
Visiting Professor
  • Sneirson's Wisconsin Law Review article on close corporations (and soft paternalism) was reprinted in the Corporate Practice Commentator. The CPC is a peer- reviewed corporate law journal aimed primarily at big-firm corporate lawyers and in-house counsel.