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Mary Adkins
Legal Skills Professor
• Selected to receive an Association of Legal Writing Directors 2008 Summer Research Grant to fund the project, "Effects of the 'Wired Courtroom' on Appellate Practice and Review."
• Argued Herbert Price v. State before the Florida Supreme Court in December.

Mary Jane Angelo
Associate Professor
• Published "The Killing Fields: Reducing the Casualties in the Battle Between U.S. Endangered Species and Pesticide Law," 32 Harvard Environmental Law Review 95 (2008).
• Published the book chapter "Reforming the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act" in CPR for the Environment: Breathing New Life into the Nation's Major Environmental Statutes, A Legislative Sourcebook of Progressive Ideas for Members of Congress and Staff (Alyson Flournoy and Matthew Shudtz, eds.) (2007)
• Presented "Florida Wetlands, New Case Law, New Regulations and New Directions" to the CLE International, Tampa, Fla., Nov. 29, 2007.
• Presented "Harnessing the Power of Science in Environmental Law: Why We Should, Why We Don't, and How We Can" at the Texas Law Review's Symposium "Harnessing the Power of Information for the Next Generation of Environmental Law" at the University of Texas Law School, Feb. 1.

Tom Ankersen
Legal Skills Professor; Director, Conservation Clinic, Center for Government Responsibility
• Served on Florida Building Commission's Green Building Task Force, which developed a model green building ordinance for Florida based in large part on the ordinance the UF Law Conservation Clinic developed for the City of Gainesville, Fla. November - February.
• Presented a paper titled, "Lawyers (and law students) without Borders: Transnational Collaboration in Climate-induced Endangerment Petitions Under the World Heritage Convention" at the Michigan State Journal of International Law symposium "A Climate of Disruption: Legal Measures for Adaptation and Mitigation," Feb. 15.
• Presented a paper titled, "A Long Slow Flood: Comprehensive Coastal Adaptation Planning for Sea Level Rise" at the Widener Law Review annual symposium "Living with Climate Change: Legal Challenges in a Warmer World," April 15.
• Served as UF Provost's Faculty Fellow for Sustainability and in that capacity directed the development of an undergraduate minor in sustainability approved by the university-wide curriculum committee. The minor is unique in its incorporation of a service learning capstone based partly on a clinical model, 2008.
• Presented a white paper, with conclusions and recommendations for a comprehensive reform of Florida's boating laws, to the Florida Boating Advisory Council under contract with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, 2008.
• Moderated the closing policy synthesis for the UF Water Institute Symposium "Sustainable Water Resources: Florida's Challenges; Global Solutions," Feb. 27-28.
• Moderated the closing plenary of the 14th Annual UF Law Public Interest Environmental Conference "Reducing Florida's Footprint: Stepping Up to the Global Challenge," Feb. 28 - March 1.

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Dennis A. Calfee
Professor; Alumni Research Scholar
• Named Distinguished Accredited Estate Planner by the National Association of Estate Planners and Councils, 2008.

Jonathan R. Cohen
Professor; Associate Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution
• Published "Coping with Lasting Social Injustice," 13 Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice 259-283 (2007).

Stuart R. Cohn
Gerald A. Sohn Research Scholar; Associate Dean for International Studies
• Published "Capital Offense: The SEC's Continuing Failure to Address Small Business Financing Concerns," 4 NYU J. Law & Bus. 1 (2007).
• Gave an address at the ABA International Law Section Conference in New York, April 4, on "Legal and Financial Developments in Cross- Border Finance Between Africa and the United States."

Charles W. Collier
Professor; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy
• Published "Presidential Debates and Deliberative Democracy," 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part (2008).
• Published article, "Terrorism as an Intellectual Problem," in 55 Buffalo L. Rev. 815 (2007)

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Jeffrey Davis
Professor; Gerald A. Sohn Scholar
• Published "Florida's Beefed-Up Assignment for the Benefi t of Creditors as an Alternative to Bankruptcy," 19 U.F. J. L. & Pub. Pol. 17, (2008).

Elizabeth Dale
Affiliate Professor of Law; Associate Professor of Constitutional and Legal History, Dept. of History
• Published "Death or Transformation? Educational Autonomy in the Roberts Court in the 2006-2007 Supreme Court Review," guest editor Erwin Chermerinsky, 43 Tulsa Law Review (2008).
• Published "People v. Coughlin and the Criminal Jury in Late Nineteenth- Century Chicago, as part of a symposium issue on the Modern Jury published in 28 Northern Illinois University Law Review (2008).
• Published "Employee Speech & Management Rights: A Counterintuitive Reading of Garcetti v. Ceballos," 29 Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law (2008).
• Published "Criminal Justice in the United States, 1780-1920: A Government of Laws or Men?" 2 Cambridge History of Law in America (Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds.) (2008)
• Published "Review Essay: Two Ways of Looking at the Founding," 35 History: Reviews of New Books 129 (2008).

Patricia E. Dilley
Professor
•Presented "Work and Institution" at a session on "Gender and Class: Voices from the Collective," held by the Section on Women in Legal Education and co-sponsored by several other sections at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, held Jan. 2-6.

Nancy E. Dowd
Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law
• Published "Multiple Parents/Multiple Fathers," 9 Journal of Law and Family Studies 231 (2007) "Keeping it Real: Fathers, Masculinities and Work/ Family Policy," presented at New Legal Realism meets Feminism & Legal Theory II: Empirical Perspectives on the Place of Law in Women's Work and Family Lives, Oct. 5-6, 2007 at the University of Wisconsin.
• Speaker for Law Association for Women, Women's History Month, March 20, on work/family issues and gender issues in law school.

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Mark Fenster
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor
• Presented "The Dilemmas of Local Transparency" at Hastings College of Law in San Francisco (2008).
• Presented "Thurman Arnold and Legal Theory" at the American Studies Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia (2008).
• Selected to receive a University of Florida Research Foundation Professorship Award for 2008-10. These professorships recognize faculty who have established a distinguished record of research and scholarship expected to lead to continuing distinction in their fields.
• Published article, "Regulating Land Use in a Constitutional Shadow: The Institutional Contexts of Exactions," in 58 Hastings Law Journal 729 (2007); the article was reprinted in the 2008 edition of the Zoning and Planning Handbook.
• Published review essay, "The Folklore of Legal Biography," in 105 Michigan Law Review 1265 (2007).
• Published article, "Takings, Version 2005: The Legal Process of Constitutional Property Rights," in 9 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 667 (2007).
• Published "On Idiocratic Theory: A Reply," in 19 Critical Review 147 (2007).

Alyson Flournoy
Professor; Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Program; UF Research Foundation Professor
• Moderated the program of the Section on Environmental Law on "Responses to a Changing Climate" at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York City, held Jan. 2-6.
• Presented "Harnessing the Power of Information to Protect our Public Natural Resource Legacy" at the University of Texas School of Law, Feb. 1.
• Served as a moderator at the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference Feb. 28 - March 1.

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Jeffrey L. Harrison
Stephen C. O'Connell Chair
• Published Law and Economics with Norton and Co (2008). Coauthor is Jules Theeuwes, Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam.
• Published "Economics of Business Associations" in the Encyclopedia of Law and Society (2007).
• Work cited in Westerfi eld v. Quizno's Franchise Co., LLC, 527 F.Supp.2d 840, 2007-2 Trade Cases P 75,942, RICO Bus.Disp. Guide 11,386, E.D.Wis., Nov. 05, 2007 (NO. 06-C-1210)
• Work cited in White Mule Co. v. ATC Leasing Co. LLC, F.Supp.2d, 2008 WL 763486, N.D.Ohio, March 25, 2008 (NO. 3:07CV00057).
• Operator of "Class Bias in Higher Education" blog and contributor to "MoneyLaw" blog.

Berta E. Hernandez-Truyol
Levin Mabie and Levin Professor; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
• Jointly honored, with Angela Harris, by the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools Minority Groups Section with the 2008 Ferguson Award for excellence in scholarship, teaching and service.

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Jerold H. Israel
Ed Rood Eminent Scholar in Trial Advocacy and Procedure
• On Dec. 21, 2007, Thomson/ West published the 3rd edition of the Criminal Procedure treatise, which was co-authored by Israel. Originally published in three volumes in 1984, the treatise has grown to seven volumes in its third edition. Professor Israel wrote 10 of the treatise's 28 chapters, running just shy of 3,000 pages. Over the years, the treatise has been cited in more than 2,500 appellate opinions.

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Robert H. Jerry, II
Dean; Levin Mabie and Levin Professor
• Presented "Leaders in the Integration of Legal Education," Feb. 26 (co-sponsored by the Black Law Student Association and the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations).
• Presented "Florida's Hurricane Insurance Market, the State Regulatory Response, and Development on Florida's Coasts" at the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference, Feb. 28 - March 1.
• Selected to serve as reporter for a National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws project involving a trustee's insurable interest in a life insured by a policy used to fund an irrevocable life insurance trust.
• Published the fourth edition of Understanding Insurance Law, LexisNexis (2008); on this edition, Jerry adds co-author Douglas Richmond.

Clifford A. Jones
Visiting Assistant Professor in Law Research
• Published " 'Hail to the Cheese': Stephen Colbert, Technology, and Corporate Political Advocacy in the 2008 Presidential Campaign," in R.A. Oglesby and M. G. Adams, Eds., 15 Business Research Yearbook 202 (2008).
• Published "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha, eds., 1 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 56 (2008).
• Published "Buckley v. Valeo," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha, eds., 1 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 69 (2008).
• Published "Campaign Finance," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha, eds., 1 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 77 (2008).
• Published "European Commission," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha, eds., 1 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 215 (2008).
• Published "European Court of Justice," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz- Bacha, eds., 1 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 217 (2008).
• Published "Federal Election Campaign Act," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha, eds., 1 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 233 (2008).
• Published "McConnell v. Federal Election Commission," in L.L. Kaid and C. Holtz-Bacha, eds., 2 Encyclopedia of Political Communication 426, (2008).
• Presented "Hail to the Cheese: Stephen Colbert, Technology, and Corporate Political Advocacy in the 2008 Presidential Campaign" to the International Academy of Business Disciplines Annual Conference, Houston, Texas, April 2-3.
• U.S. Fulbright Commission, Senior Scholar Research Grant, Comparative Antitrust Law: New Issues in Germany and the European Union. Research on the interface between intellectual property law and antitrust law and private enforcement of antitrust law in Germany and the EU. Hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition, and Tax Law, Munich, Germany, March 16-July 15, 2007.

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Christine Klein
Professor; Associate Dean for Faculty Development
• Published "The New Nuisance: An Antidote to Wetland Loss, Sprawl, and Global Warming," 48 Boston College Law Review 1155 (2007).
• Published "Mississippi River Stories: Lessons from a Century of Unnatural Disasters" (with Sandra B. Zellmer), 60 SMU Law Review 1471 (2007).
• Published "Survey of Florida Water Law," in Waters and Water Rights (Robert E. Beck, ed., Matthew Bender & Co., Inc. (2007 Supp.).
• Presented "The Case Against Water Transfers" at the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference, Feb. 28 - March 1.
• Served on panel on "Climate Change Litigation" at the Judicial Symposium on Scientifi c Evidence in the Courts sponsored by the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies (Washington, D.C.), June 22, 2007.

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Elizabeth T. Lear
Professor
• Published article, "National Interests, Foreign Injuries, and Forum Non Conveniens," 41 U.C. Davis Law Review 559 (2007).

Lyrissa Lidsky
Professor; UF Research Foundation Professor
• Spoke on Internet defamation at the Florida Free Speech Forum in December, which was recorded for radio broadcast on WUFT-FM.
• Spoke about holocaust denial at the First Amendment Discussion Forum at the University of Louisville in December.
• Published article with coauthor Tera Jckowski Peterson, titled "Medium-Specifi c Regulation of Attorney Advertising: A Critique," in 18 University of Florida Journal of Law & Public Policy 259 (2007).
• Published "U.S. Media Law Update," in 12 Media & Arts Law Review 387 (2007).
• Presented the paper, "The Implied Audience of First Amendment Speech," as a faculty enrichment lecture at William Mitchell Law School on Feb. 21 and at Loyola University Law School in Chicago on Feb. 25.
• Spoke about liability for Internet speech to the American Constitution Society on March 4.
• Moderated a panel discussion of the tort of false light in conjunction with a trip to Tallahassee, Fla. by UF law and journalism students to hear oral arguments in an important false light case before the Florida Supreme Court on March 5.
• Spoke at the University of Louisville's First Amendment Discussion Forum in December, presenting a paper titled, "Lies and the First Amendment." The paper has been accepted for publication by the Washington and Lee Law Review.

Lawrence Lokken
Hugh F. Culverhouse Eminent Scholar in Taxation; Professor
• Presented a paper titled, "Income Effectively Connected with U.S. Trade or Business: A Survey and Appraisal" at the 60th Annual Federal Tax Conference, held in November and sponsored by the University of Chicago Law School.

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Diane Mazur
Professor
• Served as a moderator for "The Great Torture Debate," sponsored by the Federalist Society, UF Levin College of Law, March 3, 2008.
• Spoke on military law as portrayed in fi lm and television at the Law and Popular Culture Symposium, Marquette University Law School, Nov. 1, 2007. The symposium celebrated the publication of the new LexisNexis casebook, Law and Popular Culture: Text, Notes, and Questions. Professor Mazur is one of the casebook's co-authors.
• Appointed the University of Florida representative to the Simon Center for the Professional Military Ethic, United States Military Academy at West Point (2008).
• Appointed to the Editorial Board of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy (2008).

Martin J. McMahon Jr.
Clarence J. TeSelle Professor
• Published "2009-1 Cumulative Supplement" to Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, Third Edition, (with Boris I. Bittker & Lawrence A. Zelenak) Warren, Gorham & Lamont (2002).
• Published "2008-1 Cumulative Supplement" to Federal Income Taxation of Individuals, Third Edition (with Boris I. Bittker & Lawrence A. Zelenak), Warren, Gorham & Lamont (2002).
• Published the article, "Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation: The Year 2007," 8 Florida Tax Review 715 (2008) (with Ira B. Shepard & Daniel L. Simmons).
• Presented "Recent Income Tax Developments" to the 2008 Oregon & Washington Tax Institute, Seattle, Wash., May 1.
• Presented "Recent Developments in Federal Income Taxation" (jointly with Prof. Ira Shepard) during the 24th Annual Tax Institute, Universityof North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, N.C., April 24.
• Presented "Recent Federal Income Tax Developments" at the Palm Beach Tax Institute, West Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 23.
• Presented "Recent Income Tax Developments," to the American Bar Association, Tax Section, Midyear Meeting (with Ira Shepard and Daniel Simmons), Lake Las Vegas, Nev., Jan. 19, and to the 54th Annual Taxation Conference, University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, Nov. 7, 2007.
• Presented "Tax Planning for Sales and Purchases of Partnership and LLC Interests" during the 55th Annual Tax Institute, University of Montana School of Law, Missoula, Mont., Oct. 19, 2007.
• Served as a panelist speaking on "The US and Canadian Perspectives on Tax Avoidance" during the American Bar Association, Tax Section, Fall Meeting, Committee on Teaching Taxation Program: Individual Income Tax Committee; Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Sept. 28, 2007.

Jon L. Mills
Professor; Director of Center for Governmental Responsibility; Dean Emeritus
• Served on a panel and presented "Communication Breakdown: Science Education for Policymakers and Policy Education for Scientists" at the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference Feb. 28 - March 1.
• Argued the Indian Gaming case before the Florida Supreme Court in April representing Florida Legislature House Speaker Marco Rubio.
• Moderated the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference panel on Science Education for Policy Makers & Policy Education for Scientists, Feb. 23.
• Moderated audience questions for former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's presentation to UF College of Law students and faculty, March 26.
• Served as facilitator for Askew Institute annual meeting, "Building Community around Florida's Four Generations," Feb. 7-8.
• Served as Rapporteur, Meeting of the World Justice Project of the American Bar Association, Buenos Aires Forum, November 2007.
• Moderated panel discussion following Dr. Jack Kevorkian's speech held at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Jan. 15.

Robert C. L. Moffat
Professor; Affiliate Professor of Philosophy
• Served on a panel discussing physician-assisted suicide and right to die issues, following a speech by Dr. Jack Kevorkian held at the Stephen C. O'Connell Center, Jan. 15.
• Invited as one of four panelists in an immigration law symposium titled, "A New Year and The Old Debate: Has Immigration Reform Reformed Anything," held at Chapman University School of Law, Feb. 20, with sponsorship by the NEXUS Journal of Opinion.
• Published "Social Impacts on the Criminal Law of the Enforcement of Morality: Some Reflections on the Anglo-American Debate," 38 Rechtstheorie 1-30 (2007).

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Winston Nagan
Professor; Samuel T. Dell Research Scholar; Director, Institute of Human Rights and Peace Development; Affiliate Professor of Anthropology
• Published "Transitional Justice: The Moral Foundation of Trials and Commissions in Social and Political Transformation" in the East African Journal of Peace & Human Rights, Makerere University, Human Rights and Peace Centre, Vol. 13, No. 3 (2007).
• Published "Globalism from an African Perspective: The Training of Lawyers for A New and Challenging Reality," Iowa Journal of Transnational Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 17, No. 2 (2008).
• Submitted the petition document "Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking Recognition of the Shuar Land Rights, and Relief from the Acts and Omissions by the Republic of Ecuador that have Resulted in the Violation of Shuar Land Rights" (44 pages) to the Inter-American Commission (2007).
• Submitted a petition dealing with bioprospecting to the Inter-American Commission titled "Petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Seeking Recognition of the Shuar Rights to Traditional Knowledge, and Relief from the Acts by the United States of America in Aiding New York Botanical Garden and United States Agency for International Development in the Misappropriation of Shuar Traditional Knowledge and Trade Secrets," (124 pages) (2008).
•Presented "National Security and the Immigrant" to the Association of Retired Intelligence Analysts, March 1. • Served as a moderator at the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference, Feb. 28 - March 1.

Kenneth B. Nunn
Professor
• Lectured on "Fifth and Sixth Amendment Issues," as part of the Florida Bar and Fla. Ass'n. Crim. Def. Lawyers Criminal Law Certifi cation Review Course, Tampa, Fla., April 18.
• Presented a paper on, "Policing, Criminal Injustice & the Black Community," at the Southeast/ Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Durham, N.C. April 12.
• Spoke on a panel on "Law School Institutes," representing the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations at the University of Florida, at the Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, North Carolina Central University School of Law, Durham, N.C., April 12.
• Presented for the panel, "Race and the Criminal Justice System: Does Race Play a Part in Prosecutorial Decision-Making?" as a part of the Third Annual Working in the Public Interest Law Conference, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Ga., April 5.

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William H. Page
Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar in Electronic Communications and Administrative Law; Professor
• Presented "Mandatory Contracting Remedies in the American and European Microsoft Cases" at a November conference on "The End of the Microsoft Case?" at Northwestern in Chicago; Page was also a commentator in a panel on recent U.S. Supreme Court antitrust decisions at the annual meeting of the Southern Economic Association in New Orleans, La.
• Published Kintner's Federal Antitrust Law, 2008 supplements (with Joseph Bauer and John Lopatka).
• Published "Software Development as an Antitrust Remedy: Lessons from the Enforcement of the Microsoft Communications Protocol Licensing Requirement," 14 Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review 77 (2007) (with Seldon J. Childers).
• Work cited in Costco Wholesale Corp. v. Maleng, 514 F.3d 915, 929 (9th Cir.2008); Schlotzsky's, Ltd. v. Sterling Purchasing and Nat'l Distrib. Co., 520 F.3d 393 (5th Cir. 2008); In re Live Concert Antitrust Litig., 247 F.R.D. 98 (C.D. Cal. 2007); Drug Mart Pharmacy Corp. v. American Home Products Corp., No. 93-CV-5148, 2007 WL 4526618 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 20, 2007); Lorix v. Crompton Corp. 736 N.W.2d 619 (Minn. 2007).

Juan F. Perea
Cone Wagner Nugent Johnson Hazouri and Roth Professor
• Presented "Musings on Barack Obama's Race Speech and the Black/White Binary Paradigm of Race" during the Mills Endowed Series of Conversations on Race, Duke University Law School, March 20.
• Presented "On Cubans and Cuban Americans: a Historical and Critical Analysis" at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and during the "Critical Race Theory Colloquium Series" at Northwestern University School of Law, both in October of 2007.
• Gave the opening keynote address, "Why we need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission," during the fi fth National Conference on Race in 21st Century America, Michigan State University, April 2007.
• Moderated the Ethics Panel during the 2007 Music Law Conference, February 2007.
• Presented "Awakening from the Dream: The New Struggle for Diversity in the Legal Academy" to the Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers Program, American Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, January 2007.
• Published the book, Latinos and the Law, (with Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic) Thomson/West (2008).
• Published Teachers' Manual for Latinos and the Law, Thomson/West (2008).
• Published Race & Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America, 2d. ed. (with Richard Delgado, Angela Harris, Jean Stefancic and Stephanie Wildman) Thomson/West (2007).
• Published Teachers' Manual for Race & Races Thomson/West (2007).

Stephen J. Powell
Lecturer in Law; Director, International Trade Law Program
• Published "Peru-U.S. Trade Promotion Agreement: The New Economic Model for Civil Society?" in Acuerdo de Promocion Comercial Peru-Estados Unidos, Lima: Universidad Peruana de Ciencas Aplicadas (2007).
• Published "Toward a Vibrant Peruvian Middle Class: Effects of the Peru-United States Free Trade Agreement on Labor Rights, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Populations," 20 Fla. J. Int'l L. No. 1 (2008) (with Paola Chavarro).
• Published "Should or Must: Nature of the Obligation of States to Use Trade Instruments for the Advancement of Environmental, Labor, and Other Human Rights," 45 Alberta L. Rev. 443 (2007).
• Presented paper on "Effective Teaching of Linked International Law Specialties -Example of International Trade and Human Rights Law" at panel on "Addressing Transnational Collaboration in the Law School Curriculum" of SEALS 2007 Annual Meeting July 29, 2007.
• Presented paper on "Expanding the NAFTA Chapter 19 Dispute Settlement System: A Way to Declaw Trade Remedy Laws in a Free Trade Area of the Americas?" at the 45th Annual Congress in Toronto of L'Asociation Internationale des Jeunes Avocats, Aug. 21, 2007.
• Presented paper on "Lessons of NAFTA Chapter 19's Unique Dispute Settlement System" at the Commercial Defense, Safeguard, and Escape Clause Measures Conference in Buenos Aires held by Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, May 15, 2007.

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Elizabeth A. Rowe
Associate Professor
• Published "Introducing A Takedown for Trade Secrets on the Internet," at the 2007 Wisconsin Law Review 1041 (2007).
• Republished "Saving Trade Secret Disclosures on the Internet Through Sequential Preservation," at 2007 Boston College Intellectual Property & Technology Forum 249 (2007).
• Presented "Rethinking 'Reasonable Efforts' to Protect Trade Secrets in the Digital Age" at Case Western University Reserve Law School, on April 23.
• Moderated a panel on "Commercial Markets" at the 2008 Music Law Conference at the Levin College of Law on Feb. 16.
• Served as a panelist, "Teaching Trademark Law," International Trademark Association Meeting, Orlando, Fla., November 2007.
• Appeared as a guest on "Law Matters" (WUFT-TV) to discuss intellectual property protection on Feb. 19.

Thomas Ruppert
Assistant in Environmental Law
• Served as a moderator at the 14th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference Feb. 28-March 1.

Sharon E. Rush
Professor
• Published "Whither Sexual Orientation Analysis?: The Proper Methodology When Due Process and Equal Protection Intersect," 16 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 1 (2008).
• Published the essay, "Refl ections on Prejudice and Animus under Equal Protection," UF Law (Winter 2007).
• Published the book chapter "Time Out For Huckleberry Finn," in Education Landscapes in the 21st Century: Cross-cultural Challenges and Multi-disciplinary Perspectives, Cambridge Scholars Pub., United Kingdom (2008).
• Published the book chapter "Toto, I Have a Feeling We are Still in Kansas," in Law Touches the Hearts of Children: A Generation Remembers Brown v. Bd. of Education (Richard J. Bonnie and Mildred W. Robinson, Eds.), Vanderbilt Univ. Press, Nashville, TN (2008).

Katheryn Russell-Brown
Professor; Director, Center for Study of Race and Race Relations
• Awarded the 2007 Coramae Richey Mann Award for outstanding contributions of scholarship on race, ethnicity, and justice by the American Society of Criminology through its Division on People of Color and Crime.

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Michael Seigel
Professor
• Published article (with co-author Daniel Weisman) titled "The Admissibility of Co-Conspirator Statements in a Post-Crawford World," 34 Florida State University Law Review 877 (2007).
• Published "Corporate America Fights Back: The Battle Over Waiver of the Attorney Client Privilege," 49 Boston College Law Review 1 (2008).
• Appointed to serve as editorial board member with responsibility for international collaboration and review, DE JURE (Procuradoria-Geral de Justia, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; a semi-annual journal published by the Prosecutor General's Offi ce for the State of Minas Gerais).
• Presented a lecture Feb. 11 titled, "Establishing and Maintaining a Norm of Collegiality in the Law School Setting," to the faculty at Florida International University Law School in Miami, Fla.
• Presented the lectures "Comparative Criminal Procedure: the United States versus Brazil," and "Comparative Taxation, the United States versus Brazil" as a guest of the Magistrates' Association of Minas Gerais, the Brazilian Magistrates' Association, and the Association of the Ministério Público of Minas Gerais, Brazil, June 2007.

Michael Siebecker
Associate Professor
• Published a chapter in The First Amendment Handbook 2007- 2008 (Rodney Smolla ed. 2008), titled, "Corporate Speech, Securities Regulation and an Institutional Approach to the First Amendment." The handbook, published by Thomson/West, provides a collection of the most notable articles on First Amendment law published in the last year.
• Published "Building a 'New Institutional' Approach to Corporate Speech," 59 Alabama Law Review 247 (2008) (lead article).
• Published "Corporate Speech, Securities Regulation and an Institutional Approach to the First Amendment," 48 Wm & Mary Law Review 613 (2006).
• In a recent Massachusetts case, Bulldog Investors v. Galvin, the court cited Siebecker (and his article mentioned above) as authority for denying a hedge fund's claim that its solicitation efforts were political speech under the First Amendment. Siebecker has previously been quoted extensively in an industry periodical, Hedge World Daily, about the same case.
• Presented "Building a 'New Institutional' Approach to Corporate Speech," Northwestern University School of Law, March 2008.
• Presented "Corporate Sustainability and International Trade," University of Costa Rica Law School, June 2008.
• Presented "Trust and Disclosure" to the Third International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, Monash University, Italy, June 2008.
• Presented "Trust, Effi ciency, and Corporate Transparency" during the Eighth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organisations at Cambridge University, United Kingdom, June 2008.
• Awarded $5,000 grant for "Enhancement of Sustainability in Instruction" from the University of Florida Committee on Sustainability and the UF Levin College of Law.

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Walter Weyrauch
Distinguished Professor; Stephen C. O'Connell Chair; Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
• Published "Private Legal Systems," 3 Encyclopedia of Law & Society 1182 (2007).
• Published "Gypsies and Travelers," 2 Encyclopedia of Law & Society 682 (2007).

Michael Allan Wolf
Professor; Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law
• Published "Hysteria v. History: Public Use in the Public Eye," as a chapter in Private Property, Community Development, and Eminent Domain (Robin Paul Malloy ed.) (2008).
• Published "William Faulkner, Legal Commentator: Humanity and Endurance in Hollywood's Yoknapatawpha," 77 Mississippi Law Journal 957 (2008).
• Presented "Green Building in the Evolving Legal Landscape," at the Seventh Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium, UF Levin College of Law.

Danaya C. Wright
Professor
• Presented "Power, Intimacy, and Rights: The Legalization of Family Discourse in One Victorian Marriage," Cornell University Faculty Colloquium, Nov. 3, 2007.
• Spoke "Making a HASH of Federal Transportation and Railbanking Policies," for the Amer. Const. Society, UF Levin College of Law, Feb. 20.
• Published "Charitable Deductions for Rail-Trail Conversions: Reconciling the Partial Interest Rule and the National Trails System Act" (co-authored with Scott Bowman) 32 Wm. & Mary Envt'l L & Pol'y Rev. 1-57 (2008).