GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The $17 billion bond offering by Apple Inc. April 30 highlighted the ability of U.S. companies to defer paying taxes by keeping their money offshore in so-called “foreign” subsidiaries. Rather than repatriate the $102 billion it holds in its overseas subsidiaries, Apple has taken out loans to pay shareholders part of its [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida Levin College of Law students have recently been recognized for significant accomplishments they have achieved while at UF Law. Six UF Law students were inducted into the UF Hall of Fame – the highest recognition given to student leaders at UF – and UF Law third-year student Amanda Harris [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The Florida Bar Tax Section recognized University of Florida Law Professor Dennis Calfee as the Gerald T. Hart Outstanding Tax Attorney of the Year on Saturday at the section’s 35th annual meeting. Participants repeatedly praised Calfee for his energetic assistance to students and colleagues during his career on the UF Law Graduate [...]
The Florida Supreme Court this week released February’s Florida Bar exam results revealing that 16 out of 22 University of Florida Levin College of Law graduates passed the test, a February passage rate of 72.7 percent. The small number of test takers had little impact on UF Law’s bar passage rate for the year, which [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida Levin College of Law Professor Leonard Riskin was honored last weekend with the American Bar Association’s Section of Dispute Resolution award for Outstanding Scholarly Work. Riskin, who is the Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law, accepted the prestigious award at the section’s 15th annual spring conference in Chicago. Since coming [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Levin College of Law Black Law Students Association took home two prestigious awards at the annual National Black Law Students Association Convention in Atlanta March 6-10. UF Law BLSA, also known as the W. George Allen chapter, was recognized as the national chapter of the year, beating out [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Albie Sachs, retired justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and life-long freedom fighter in the struggle against apartheid, will be speaking about gay marriage at the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Tuesday, March 26 – the same day the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments for two cases on gay marriage next Tuesday and Wednesday. One challenges California’s Proposition 8, which states that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized in the state. The other looks at the national Defense of Marriage Act, which also [...]