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Justin AxelrodUp and coming: UF Law student serves to lighten taxpayers’ load

At 25 years of age, third-year law student Justin Axelrod is the youngest member ever appointed to the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel by the U.S. secretary of treasury. He’s excited by the prospect of committing between 300 and 500 hours of time annually during his three-year appointment, which began in December.

Dunwody LectureDunwody Lecture: Dissecting Florida's Bush-Gore "extravaganza"

Internationally known constitutional scholar Akhil Reed Amar, the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, spoke at the 28th Annual Florida Law Review Dunwody Distinguished Lecture in Law.

Naomi CahnWeyrauch Lecture: The complication of familial class and classification

In her March 23 lecture, titled “Family Classes,” Naomi Cahn discussed the way economic class controls general thought about conception and family planning, coloring the “entire range of issues from contraception to abortion.”

Wolf Family LectureWolf Family Lecture: Social obligation. The court’s new concept for landowners

The right to exclude others from private property is not what it used to be. That was the message recently delivered by Gregory Alexander, a prominent Cornell University land-use law professor and speaker for the Second Annual Wolf Family Lecture in the American Law of Real Property.

PIECPIEC: Sustainable solutions to Florida's environmental woes

The 15th Annual Public Interest Environmental Conference (PIEC) gave environmentalists, scientists, lawyers and law students the opportunity to seek solutions to Florida’s environmental woes.

Music Law ConferenceMusic Law: From suits to the stage

The Music Law Conference featured lawyers from areas around the nation attending to talk with musicians, lawyers and students about the world of entertainment.

Nelson SymposiumNelson Symposium: The squeeze on local governments

The Eighth Annual Richard E. Nelson Symposium brought more than 100 top legal experts, local government attorneys and municipal managers together on Feb. 13 to discuss challenges and proposed solutions to the multitude of problems faced by local governments.

UF Sports Law SymposiumEntertainment & Sports Law: Making the cut

The founder of ESPN and a former White House communications director were among the prominent figures of the sports law and business world who gathered for the 2009 Second Annual UF Sports Law Symposium, held Jan. 23.

JLPPJournal turns the page on going paperless

JLPP has set an extraordinary precedent as the first journal at UF, and possibly nationwide, to go green — replacing once cluttered shelves, heavy binders and overworked printers with an electronic system that allows journal members to edit all journal articles electronically, and from remote locations, without printing a single document.

Pie ThrowingProfs take pie in the face for a good cause

Professor Danaya Wright beams through a whipped cream face mask she’s just received as part of an April 20 Pie Throw fundraiser to benefit the Kalksteenfontein Primary School (KPS) in South Africa.

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