David T. Smith

Professor David T. (“D.T.”) Smith joined University of Florida faculty in 1968. Before joining UF Law, he taught at Indiana, Duquesne and Case Western Reserve. He retired from UF Law with emeritus status in 2003. Education B.A, Yale University J.D., Boston University Teaching and Scholarship Estates & Trusts, Probate Law

Clay Calvert

Clay Calvert is the Brechner Eminent Scholar Emeritus and former Director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida. Since 2010, Professor Calvert has published more than 30 articles in flagship law reviews and more than 40 additional articles in a combination of specialty law reviews and peer-reviewed journals.  In […]

Richard A. Matasar

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Richard Matasar, former dean of the Chicago-Kent College of Law and Associate Dean at the University of Iowa, became dean of the University of Florida College of Law in 1996. As Matasar’s term began, the growth in faculty and students was beginning to outstrip the facilities of Holland and Bruton-Geer halls, and the library’s holdings […]

Frank T. Read

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Frank Read came to the University of Florida after serving as law professor at Duke University and the University of Tulsa as well as dean of the Indiana University School of Law. During his term as dean of UF’s law school, Read was able to increase quality improvement funding from the Florida Legislature, including the […]

Jeffrey Lewis

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A graduate of the Duke University School of Law and a member of the law school faculty since 1972, Jeffrey Lewis was named dean of the University of Florida College of Law in 1988. During his eight year-tenure, Lewis strengthened the law school’s ties with the legal community, serving on the Florida Bar’s Committee on […]

Roy Hunt

Twice in his career at UF, Professor E. L. Roy Hunt saw the law school through crucial transitions by serving as acting dean. In Fall 1970, he stepped in as the school searched for someone to replace long-serving Dean Frank Maloney. In March, 1980, he served as acting dean after Dean Joseph Julin stepped down […]

Thomas T. Ankersen

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Professor Ankersen directed the University of Florida Conservation Clinic, the experiential learning arm of the College’s Environmental and Land Use Law Program. Ankersen also directed the College’s Costa Rica Program. He practices domestic, international and comparative environmental law with an emphasis on Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Internationally he has worked and/or taught in […]

Mary Jane Angelo

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Mary Jane Angelo is the Emeritus Samuel T. Dell Professor, Professor of Law, and Co-Director of the Environmental and Land Use Law Program at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. She is also Affiliate Faculty in both the University of Florida School of Natural Resources and Water Institute. Professor Angelo has published extensively […]

Mary Adkins

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Mary Adkins is a Master Legal Skills Professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. Adkins teaches legal writing. In addition, she is faculty liaison to the First District Appellate American Inn of Court, and has presented nationally matters related to legal writing. She was Chair of the AALS Section on Legal Writing, […]

Barbara Bennett Woodhouse

Education J.D., Columbia University B.S., Regent’s College, University of the State of New York Diploma Superiore, Universita per Stranieri (Perugia, Italy) Teaching and Scholarship Adoption, Child Welfare Law, Children’s Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, The Supreme Court and The Family, and Child/Parent and State.