News & Publications
News & Publications
The Office of Communications supports the college through comprehensive public relations and marketing services, including publications writing, design and production, media relations, photography, and strategic communications planning. Publications include FlaLaw weekly newsletter, UF Law magazine and UF Law E-News and an extensive family of publications serving multiple College of Law departments, programs and audiences.
In addition to extensive publications and photography services, the Office of Communications is also responsible for the UF Law Web site.
Recent News
February 8, 2010
Federal courts scholar to examine qualified immunity doctrine during UF Dunwody Lecture
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Should qualified immunity, the controversial doctrine shielding police officers and others from damages, be changed?
Prominent federal courts scholar, John C. Jeffries Jr., the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia, will discuss this and more when he delivers the 29th annual Dunwody Distinguished Lecture at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.
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February 1, 2010
UF Trial Team wins Florida Bar Competition
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida Levin College of Law Trial Team won first place – which amounts to the state championship – at the highly-competitive Florida Bar Chester Bedell Memorial Mock Trial Competition Jan. 20-21 in Orlando. This marks the sixth time UF Law has won the prestigious competition.
Members of the winning team include Dana DiSano (awarded Best Advocate), Dan Hogan, Kevin Sharbaugh and Melissa Welch. Also competing from the team were Wayne Atkinson, Allison Kirkwood, Jamie Stephens and Kara Wick. Others integral to the team’s success were James Baley, Rhett Parker, Tania Alavi and Nick Zissimopulos.
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January 28, 2010
Prominent antitrust scholar to give inaugural UF Law antitrust lecture
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Herbert Hovenkamp, a professor of law recognized by the Department of Justice for his antitrust scholarship, will be the inaugural speaker for the University of Florida Levin College of Law Bayard Wickliffe Heath Memorial Lecture Series on U.S. Antitrust Policy.
On Feb. 5 at 11 a.m., Hovenkamp, the Ben and Dorothy Willie Chair at the University of Iowa College of Law and the recipient of the 2008 John Sherman Award from the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, will discuss the Federal Trade Commission and the Sherman Antitrust Act. The act, passed by Congress in 1890, authorizes the federal government to enforce federal policy against the anticompetitive practices of cartels and monopolies. The free lecture will be held in the College of Law’s Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom (room 180).
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January 21, 2010
UF law school first to open all-inclusive domestic violence clinic
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A $449,785 U.S. Department of Justice grant to the University of Florida Levin College of Law will fund a unique collaborative effort to assist low-income domestic-violence victims with comprehensive legal, medical, mental and social services in one location.
The new Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic is a partnership between the UF College of Law Center on Children and Families and Virgil D. Hawkins Civil Legal Clinics, UF’s College of Medicine, Shands HealthCare, and Gainesville’s nonprofit Peaceful Paths Domestic Abuse Network. The innovative clinic will be staffed by UF law and medical students who have been trained and certified to work with survivors of domestic-violence and by social and mental health workers from Shands at the University of Florida and Peaceful Paths. The clinic, set to open in May, will be located in the obstetrics, gynecology and pediatrics clinic at Shands at UF in Gainesville. The location was chosen due to the number of abuse victims treated in the clinics.
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