Richard Hamann
Associate in Law, Center for Governmental Responsibility
"Water rights shift in Florida could foreshadow debates to come" (Jan. 18, 2012, Stateline.org)
Hamann weighed in on legislation that would enact major changes in Florida's water law, including taking reclaimed water away from the state and into the hands of the utilities that produced it.
From the article:
Environmentalists also question whether the bill would protect the water supply as advertised. "We need to encourage reuse, but not all reuse is equal," says Hamann. The shift could give utilities more incentive, for instance, to sell reclaimed water to a golf course for irrigation than to use it to recharge an aquifer.
Shani M. King
Co-Director, Center on Children and Families; Associate Professor of Law
King published a paper, "Alone and Unrepresented: How the United States' Failure to Provide Legal Counsel to Unaccompanied Minors Lags Behind Developing International and Regional Human Rights Standards," University of San Francisco School of Law (December 2011).
Lyrissa Lidsky
Stephen C. O'Connell Chair; Professor of Law
Lidsky recently published a book chapter together with Daniel Friedel entitled "Legal Pitfalls of Social Media Usage" in Social Media: Usage and Impact, edited by Hana Noor Al-Deen and John Allen Hendricks. She also published "Public Forum 2.0" in the Boston University Law Review and "Incendiary Speech and Social Media" in the Texas Tech Law Review. She gave a presentation of "Public Forum 2.0" at Notre Dame Law School in November.
Michael Seigel
UF Research Foundation Professor of Law; Director, Criminal Justice Center and Clinics
In December, Seigel published the casebook, White Collar Crime: Procedure, Theory and Practice (Aspen Publishers, 2011). The book offers comprehensive coverage of some of the most important issues in modern-day white collar crime, including statutes and regulations; criminal procedure; sociology and psychology; and prosecution and defense.
Danny Sokol
Associate Professor of Law
"Antitrust enforcement has picked up" (Jan. 17, 2012, Politifact – Tampa Bay Times)
This article investigates President Barack Obama's promise to strengthen antitrust enforcement. Sokol provided evidence that Obama has indeed worked to keep his promise.
From the article:
The Obama administration has produced "more enforcement," said D. Daniel Sokol, who teaches antitrust law at the University of Florida Levin School of Law. Sokol pointed to the recent collapse of AT&T's proposed $39 billion takeover of T-Mobile under pressure from the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department's successful opposition to a merger of H&R Block and TaxAct (two of three of the largest makers of do-it-yourself tax preparation products) as two important cases.
Sokol added, "in the shadow of the law (the vast majority of matters that we do not see such as mergers never filed or mergers that get cleared within 30 days), there seems to be the perception among practitioners that merger enforcement is up on the margins."
