GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The current members of the Florida Supreme Court will once again visit the University of Florida Levin College of Law to hear oral arguments in the 29th annual Raymer F. Maguire Jr. Appellate Advocacy Competition this Thursday at 10 a.m. in the Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center courtroom. The event is free [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – University of Florida faculty, led by the Levin College of Law, the Center for Latin American Studies and the College of Education, will spend the next three years working with two universities in Colombia to enhance the human rights programs at their law schools. UF will receive nearly $757,200 from the U.S. [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – With online industries and digital markets continuing to rapidly evolve both economically and technologically, antitrust agencies are challenged with applying existing policy frameworks to this new system while developing updated strategies that look to the future. Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Economics Howard Shelanski will discuss how antitrust agencies [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Distinguished members of the global tax community will discuss important topics revolving around current and future tax policy during the University of Florida Levin College of Law’s Graduate Tax Program’s eighth annual International Tax Law Symposium on Friday, Oct. 19, in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, HOL 180. The symposium is 8:30 [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – A Harvard Law professor will examine how the campaign to extend civil marriage to couples of the same sex fails to capture the changing nature and complexity of marital relationships in our society. Janet Halley, Royall Professor of Law at Harvard, will present, “Travelling Marriage: Why the Campaign for Same Sex Marriage [...]
Oct. 11, 2012 GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Tax cuts set to expire at the end of the year will trigger higher average tax bills of almost $3,500 across all households in the U.S., and $2,000 for middle income households. Experts say this looming “fiscal cliff” would result in unprecedented tax hikes that could result in a [...]
Oct. 11, 2012 GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Three Florida Supreme Court justices will discuss the importance of maintaining an independent judicial branch of government in the state of Florida next week at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. “The Importance of an Independent Judiciary,” will take place at 1 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 18, [...]
Oct. 2, 2012 By Mickie Anderson, 352-273-3566, mickiea@ufl.edu GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Living along a Florida beach sounds like a dream, but it can bring nightmarish worries, including severe weather, erosion and regulations limiting how the land is used. A new study by researchers with the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law and Institute of [...]