Faculty News
Book Roundup
Jon Mills: Technology jeopardizes individual privacy
“Privacy: The Lost Right” draws on Mills’ academic, courtroom and legislative experiences and explores examples of privacy intrusions enabled by technology ranging from disclosure of private online video rentals, Internet purchasing habits, spyware that tracks personal online viewing habits, governmental and corporate intrusions, and salacious or defamatory Web postings made by anonymous bloggers. He outlines the legal protections people have — or don’t have — to prevent these intrusions, and offers options to bolster legal protections of privacy.
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse: Hidden in Plain Sight
Princeton University Press
Hidden in Plain Sight reveals why fundamental human rights and principles of dignity, equality, privacy, protection, and voice are essential to a child’s journey into adulthood. In her book, Barbara Bennett Woodhouse explores how understanding rights for children leads to a better understanding of human rights for all. In a moving account of children’s rights throughout American history from Benjamin Franklin to Lionel Tate, Woodhouse asks why the United States alone rejects the most universally embraced human-rights document in history, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. She calls on the United States to again become a leader in human rights and children’s rights.
In Memorium
Walter Weyrauch: Five decades of scholarship
Weyrauch, distinguished professor and Steven C. O’Connell Chair, died Oct. 17 at the age of 89. His teaching and scholarship focused on family law, business organizations, comparative law, law and society, legal philosophy, and autonomous informal lawmaking. He was widely published in these areas.
Dexter Delony leaves a lasting impression
Professor Emeritus Dexter Delony, passed away Oct. 16 following a long illness. He was 91. Delony taught at UF Law for more than 30 years, educating thousands of Florida’s lawyers and leaders, including former governors Lawton Chiles and Rueben Askew.
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