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News Release Archive 2004
August 27, 2004
Four
Prominent National Environmental Scholars
to Headline Inaugural UFLaw Speaker Series
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Four leading environmental scholars
will headline the inaugural University of Florida Levin
College of Law Environmental & Land Use Law Speaker
Series in spring 2005.
August 20, 2004
UFLaw
Students, Faculty to Begin Using First Phase of $22+Million
Facilities Expansion Projects
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – More than 200 fall enrollees of
the University of Florida Levin College of Law along with
1,000 existing students and 60 faculty will begin using
the completed first-phase of the school’s $22+ million
construction and expansion project when classes start Tuesday.
July 22, 2004
Palm
Beach UF Alum Makes Additional Gift to Law School
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A longtime contributor
to the University of Florida and its Levin College of Law
recently pledged an additional gift of $100,000 to the law
school’s Annual Fund to help provide opportunities
for students to gain practical experience and to support
academic programs and services.
June 25, 2004
International
UFLaw Scholar Honored for Contributions
to Florida / Americas Legal Issues, Policies, Procedures
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA – Chesterfield Smith
Professor of Law Michael W. Gordon of the University of
Florida Levin College of Law was honored here Friday night
for his more than 35 years of significant contributions
to international and legal relations between Florida and
the Americas.
June 21, 2004
Annual
UFLaw Conference Convenes Latin America Experts
to Address Economic Integration, Conflict Resolution, Legal
Rights
SAN JOSE, COSTA RICA – Experts from the
United States, Costa Rica and the Americas will gather here
Thursday-Saturday for the fifth annual University of Florida
Levin College of Law conference on “Legal & Policy
Issues in the Americas.”
May 4, 2004
New
UF Law Professor’s Book Sounds Alarm on Harmful Consequences
of ‘Fringe Creditors’
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Failure of policy
makers to effectively use new regulatory techniques and
technologies to inform consumers of all aspects of the Truth-In-Lending
Act is damaging the net worth of the least wealthy 40 percent
of American households, and resulting in "an interest
rate fever for which a growing number of working-class and
lower-middle-class Americans have scant resistance."
May 4, 2004
Eight
Prominent Grads Named UF Law School Trustees
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Five attorneys, a
metropolitan city mayor and two leading business executives
have been named to the Board of Trustees of the University
of Florida Levin College of Law Center Association.
April 20, 2004
UFLaw
Students Score Well in International Competition
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Students from the University of
Florida Levin College of Law competing earlier this month
in the annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration
Moot (ICAM) competition in Vienna, Austria, finished in
the top 16 of 142 teams from law schools representing more
than 40 countries.
March 10, 2004
National
Forum to Observe 50th Anniversary of Supreme Court School
Desegregation Case
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
In 1954 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled public school segregation
unconstitutional, and a national conference scheduled here
March 25-26 by the University of Florida College of Law
will focus on the impact and challenges of that landmark
decision in observance of its 50th anniversary.
March 4, 2004
UF
Research Confirms Importance of Race, Ethnicity, Gender
in Law Schools
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
New research by two University of Florida Levin College
of Law faculty confirms race, ethnicity and gender significantly
affect students’ law school experiences but that there
still exists "an inegalitarian culture in legal education."
February 23, 2004
UFLaw
Students to Hold ‘Black History Month’ Awareness
Event
Two segments of the University
of Florida Levin College of Law – the Office of Diversity
and Community Development and the Black Law Students Association
(BLSA) – are inviting law students, faculty and staff
to join Wednesday (Feb. 25th) in a celebration of Black
contributions to society and culture.
February 18, 2004
New
Book by UFLaw Professor Discusses How Race, Racism Impact
Criminal Justice System
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
A new book by University of Florida Levin College of Law
Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown now in national distribution
argues that "underground codes" used to discuss
crime and race subtly connects Blackness with deviance,
thus reinforcing stereotypes of crime and criminality.
February 17, 2004
Orlando
Intellectual Property Conference Features Former U.S. Patent
Office Director
ORLANDO, Fla. – James
E. Rogan, immediate past director of the U.S. Patent &
Trademark Office and former Under Secretary of Commerce
for Intellectual Property, will be keynote speaker here
Friday at the third annual Law & Technology Conference
organized by the University of Florida Levin College of
Law.
January 29, 2004
10th
Annual UF Law Public Interest Environmental Conference Focuses
Feb. 19-21 on ‘Decade of Protecting an Eternity'
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
Noted novelist and newspaper columnist Carl Hiaasen and
major environmental issues facing Florida will share the
agenda here Feb. 19-21, at the University of Florida Levin
College of Law’s 10th Annual Public Interest Environmental
Conference.
January 22, 2004
UF
Law Students Schedule Saturday Conference On Implications
of ‘Lawrence v. Texas’
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
Prominent national spokesmen and legal educators will be
featured here Saturday as a University of Florida Levin
College of Law student group holds a conference on implications
of a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning a Texas
statute making it a crime for same-sex persons to engage
in sexual conduct.
January 13, 2004
Author,
2-State Legal Official Returns to Alma Mater for Address
GAINESVILLE, Fla. –
Bernestine Singley, former assistant attorney general for
both Massachusetts and Texas, returns to the University
of Florida Levin College of Law for an address on Thursday,
Jan. 22.