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Dear UF Law Community, I am deeply saddened to share the news that our namesake and champion Fredric G. Levin passed away Tuesday, January 12, at the age of 83. After graduating from the College of Law in 1961, Fred went on to become one of the most successful trial attorneys in the nation, winning […]

The following statement was issued by Dean Laura Rosenbury on January 7, 2021. Dean Rosenbury has also joined nearly 160 deans from law schools nationwide in a statement posted here.  Dear UF Law Community, The rule of law has triumphed.  Despite a violent attack on the Capitol, Congress ultimately completed the counting of the Electoral […]

Dean Laura Rosenbury shared the following message with the UF Law community on October 6, 2020. Dear UF Law Community, As some of you may know, Professor Deb Cupples passed away on Sunday, October 4, 2020. This is a tragic loss for our community. Professor Cupples graduated from UF Law in 2005. While practicing law, […]

More than 280 University of Florida Levin College of Law students received financial support from the law school this summer, totaling nearly $1 million. UF Law continued its robust summer public interest stipend program, this year offering summer stipends to 192 students, for a total of more than $863,000.  These stipends of $4,000 for rising […]

The University of Florida Fredric G. Levin College of Law announces a new scholarship program for graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) seeking to enter the legal profession. The program will award full-tuition scholarships to at least five HBCU graduates enrolling at UF Law every year. UF Law launches this endowed scholarship with […]

Dean Laura Rosenbury shared the following message with the UF Law Community on June 17, 2020. Dear UF Law Community, I am indebted to the many students, staff, faculty, and alumni who have exhorted UF Law to seize this moment to fight for racial justice, both at home on our campus and throughout the state […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE GULFPORT, Fla. (June 23, 2020) – In light of longstanding and recent acts of racist violence, the Deans of the 12 law schools in Florida have formed the Florida Law Schools’ Consortium for Racial Justice (FLSCRJ). This collective will leverage the strengths and educational roles of every law school in the state […]

During the week of June 1, 2020, UF Law hosted two discussions with students, faculty, and staff on the recent killings of Black women and men by the police, the newly energized nationwide actions protesting police brutality and systemic racism, and how our community might participate in similar actions and effect change.  During the Wellness […]

UF Law Professor Stephanie Bornstein has been selected to participate in the 2020 Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum. Professor Bornstein’s paper, Disclosing Discrimination, is forthcoming in the Boston University Law Review. The forum will take place virtually over the summer. Below is the abstract of Professor Bornstein’s article: In the United States, enforcement of legal prohibitions […]

Dear UF Law Community, The last week of May brought distressing news. The death toll from Covid-19 within the United States exceeded 100,000. Over 40 million people in the United States have now lost their jobs. Yet again, an unarmed African-American man, George Floyd, was killed by a Minneapolis police officer, following other tragic deaths […]