FACULTY NEWS
Farewell & Welcome
Faculty Retirement
Jerold Israel
Jerold Israel joined the UF
Law faculty in 1993 as an Ed
Rood Eminent Scholar in Trial
Advocacy and Procedure. During
his teaching career, Israel wrote
numerous publications, books, law
review articles and government
commission reports. His most
prominent writings are 10 chapters
(running roughly 3,000 pages) in
the seven-volume LaFave, Israel,
King & Kerr treatise on criminal
procedure, which has been cited in
more than 2,500 appellate opinions,
and a co-authored casebook on
criminal procedure, which has been
the most widely used casebook in
the fi eld for more than 40 years.
While at UF Law, Israel taught
courses in criminal procedure
and white collar crime. Before
joining UF Law, Israel taught at
the University of Michigan for 35
years. He received his bachelor's
degree from Case Western Reserve
University and his law degree from
the Yale Law School, and served
a two-term clerkship with Justice
Potter Stewart of the United States
Supreme Court following his
graduation from Yale.
Michael Gordon
Michael Gordon has taught
at UF Law since 1968. He served
as visiting associate professor,
professor, Chesterfi eld Smith
Professor, and most recently, the
John H. & Mary Lou Dasburg
Professor while simultaneously
serving as affi liate professor at
UF's Center for Latin American
Studies. While at UF Law, Gordon
taught international business and
trade law, international litigation,
comparative law, corporation law
and law of the North American Free
Trade Agreement. Throughout his
career, Gordon co-authored and
authored multiple books, chapters
and articles on international
business transactions, has been
appointed to the North American
Free Trade Agreement and World
Trade Organization dispute panel
rosters and served as a consultant
for foreign governments and the
departments of State and Justice.
Once retired, Gordon will continue
to write and serve as a legal
consultant and expert witness
on domestic and international
corporate law, international
litigation issues and civil law.
Gordon received numerous awards throughout his teaching career. He was elected to the American Law Institute, the Academia Mexicana de Derecho Internacional Privado y Comporado, and the Academia Internationale du Droit Compare. Gordon earned his law degree with honors and bachelor's degree from the University of Connecticut and master's degree in economics from Trinity College. Gordon also received a Diplome du Droit Compare from Strasburg, France, and Maestria en Derecho, which is equivalent of an LL.M., from Mexico.
Joseph W. Little
Joseph W. Little came to
UF Law in 1967 and quickly
moved up through the ranks to
become a full professor in 1971
and Alumni Research Scholar
in 1994. His has been a colorful
career involving innovative and
engaging teaching methods,
election as a Gainesville, Fla. city
commissioner and mayor, and a
lifetime of scholarly achievement.
He is widely published in the
areas of local government law,
state and local taxation, United
States and state constitutional
law, worker's compensation and
employment legislation, torts and
reparation systems reform, property,
administrative law, comparative
constitutional law and history.
Beloved by students, Little was named the 2007-2008 John Marshall Bar Association Teacher of the Year. He has served as a visiting professor in law schools in South Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Little earned his bachelor's summa cum laude from Duke University, a master's with highest honors from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and his law degree from the University of Michigan.
Visiting and On leave Faculty
A number of our faculty will be serving for a brief time at other schools next year. Associate Professor Michael Siebecker will visit Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.; Professor Kenneth Nunn will go on leave to serve at Florida A&M University in Orlando, Fla.; and, Michael Seigel will visit Stetson University in Gulfport, Fla.
We are pleased to welcome the following new faculty members
Deborah Cupples
Legal Skills Professor
Deborah Cupples (JD 05) has
joined the faculty as a lecturer
and legal skills professor and
will teach legal drafting. She
previously served UF Law as an
adjunct professor teaching legal
drafting and currently works as
a part-time attorney at F. Parker
Lawrence, P.A. Cupples earned
her bachelor's degree in English
and master's degree in political
science, both from the University
of Florida.
Charlene Luke
Assistant Professor
Charlene Luke has joined the
faculty as an assistant professor
and will teach income, corporate,
and partnership taxation. She
was previously an assistant professor
at Florida State University
College of Law and visiting faculty
at the University of Utah S.J.
Quinney College of Law. Before
teaching, Luke was an associate
at Dechert in Philadelphia, Penn.
Luke received a bachelor's and
law degree from Brigham Young
University. She graduated from
law school summa cum laude and
was fi rst in her class.
D. Daniel Sokol
Assistant Professor
D. Daniel Sokol has joined the
faculty as an assistant professor
teaching corporations and business
organizations law. Before
joining UF Law, he was a visiting
associate professor at the
University of Missouri School of
Law and a fellow at the University
of Wisconsin Law School.
After earning a bachelor's in history
and political science from
Amherst College, he went on to
earn a Master of Studies in modern
history from the University
of Oxford. After earning his law
degree from the University of
Chicago, Sokol worked as an associate
at Swidler Berlin Shereff
Friedman in Washington, D.C.,
and Steel Hector & Davis in Miami,
Fla., where he specialized in
antitrust, international trade and
corporate law.
Visiting Professors
Randall Baldwin Clark
has
joined the faculty as a visiting
assistant professor teaching
criminal and health care law.
Most recently, Clark served as
a visiting assistant professor
at George Mason University
School of Law. He holds a doctorate
in political philosophy
from the University of Chicago
and law degree from the
University of Virginia. Before
turning to the study of the law,
Clark was a research associate
in the department of government
at Dartmouth College.
Following one year of service
in the chambers of the Hon.
Edith H. Jones, United States
Court of Appeals for the Fifth
Circuit, he joined the firm of
Goodwin Procter, in Boston,
Mass., where he litigated intellectual
property, products liability
and land use disputes.
Robin Davis has joined the
faculty as a legal skills professor
and associate director of the
Institute for Dispute Resolution.
Davis will teach mediation and
mediation clinic. Since 1994,
she has been the alternative dispute
resolution director of the
Eighth Judicial Circuit. In spring
2008, Davis served as an adjunct
professor at UF Law teaching
alternative dispute resolution and
mediation. She received her JD
cum laude from the University
of Florida Levin College of Law
and bachelor's magna cum laude
from Michigan State University.
William Pizzi has joined the
faculty as a visiting professor
teaching criminal law and criminal
procedure this fall. Most
recently, Pizzi served as professor
at the University of Colorado
Law School. He earned his
law degree from Harvard Law
School, master's in philosophy
from the University of Massachusetts
and bachelor's from
Holy Cross College.
Kenneth Williams has joined
the faculty as a visiting professor
teaching criminal law and
criminal procedure this fall.
Most recently, Williams served
as professor at Southwestern
Law School. He has also been
a faculty member at Gonzaga
University School of Law and
Texas Southern University
Thurgood Marshall School of
Law where he also served as
associate dean for academic affairs.
Williams earned his law
degree from the University of
Virginia School of Law and
bachelor's from the University
of San Francisco.