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Academic Workshops — Fall 2023

Many outstanding scholars present their research and forthcoming scholarship throughout the year. Below you may explore a list of the distinguished scholars who will present in our academic workshop series, both in-person and virtually, this Fall 2023.

AUGUST 2023
SEPTEMBER 2023
OCTOBER 2023
NOVEMBER 2023
DECEMBER 2023

 

Thursday, August 31 from 1:45 p.m to 4:30 p.m. ET

Friday, September 1 from 9:30 a.m to noon ET

Roundtable on the Rule of Law in the U.S. and Brazil

The University of Florida Levin College of Law, the Center for Governmental Responsbility at UF Law, and the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida invite you to join Brazilian federal prosectuors and faculty from the UF Levin College of Law as they discuss the status of fundamental rights and the rule of law in the U.S. and Brazil. This event takes place over two days. Panel I convenes on Thursday, August 31 at 1:45 p.m. and Panel II convenes on Friday, September 1 at 9:30 a.m. This event will be livestreamed via Zoom webinar; please register here. A reception will be held on August 31 at 4:30 p.m. in the Martin Levin Advocacy Center foyer. The agenda may be found here. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Location: Bailey Event Space and Virtually
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Monday, September 11

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop

Christopher D. Hampson, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Monday, September 18

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Paige Marta Skiba, Professor of Law, Professor of Economics, and 2022-2023 FedEx Research Professor, Vanderbilt Law School, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Tuesday, September 19

2023 Constitution Day Celebration

Please join the University of Florida Levin College of Law for our 2023 Constitution Day Celebration. Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, College of Journalism and Communications; Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law; and Peter Molk, Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development and John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Professor; will discuss the upcoming oral arguments to be held before the Florida First District Court of Appeal. The oral arguments will be held separately on September 20 at 10:00 a.m. in the Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center Morgan & Morgan Courtroom. You may find briefs for the oral arguments here. Lunch will be served. Please RSVP here  and contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Holland Hall 360
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Friday, September 22

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Leigh Osofsky, William D. Spry III Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Holland Hall 359 and via Zoom
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Monday, October 2

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop

Ben Johnson, Associate Professor of Law, Unversity of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Wednesday, October 3

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Werner Haslehner, Full Professor in European and International Tax Law, ATOZ Chair for European and International Taxation, University of Luxembourg Faculty of Law, Economics, and Finance, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 10:20 am ET
Location: Holland Hall 180 and via Zoom
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Monday, October 9

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Internal Faculty Workshop

Yariv Brauner, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Monday, October 16

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Eleanor Brown, Professor of Law, Fordham Unversity School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Thursday, October 19

2023 Generative AI & the Law

Please join Unviersity of Florida Levin College of Law faculty members Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, College of Journalism and Communications; Lyrissa Barnett Lidsky, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Chair in U.S. Constitutional Law; Ben Johnson, Associate Professor of Law; and Bill Hamilton, Senior Legal Skills Professor for a discussion on Generative AI & the Law. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: 285B HOL
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Thursday, October 19

2023 Allen L. Poucher Lecture

The Florida Law Review presents the 2023 Allen L. Poucher Lecture with Ray Treadwell, Partner, Lawson Huck Gonzalez PLLC; David Karp, Of Counsel, Carlton Fields; Chris Marchese, Director, Litigation Center at NetChoice; and James Lake, Partner, Thomas & LoCicero. Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, Levin College of Law and Brechner Eminent Scholar Chair, College of Journalism and Communications moderates. Please contact visit Florida Law Review’s webpage for more information. Please register here.
Time: 4:30 p.m. ET
Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, Holland Hall 180
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Friday, October 20

University of Florida Levin College of Law Tax Colloquium

Gregg D. Polsky, Francis Shackelford Distinguished Professor in Taxation Law, University of Georgia School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: 11:20 am ET
Location: Holland Hall 359 and via Zoom
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Monday, October 23

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Nicholas Bryner, John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 1 and 2, Director, Climate Change Law and Policy Project, and Associate Professor of Law; Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Friday, October 27

19th Annual International Tax Symposium

The University of Florida Levin College of Law and the Graduate Tax Program presents the 19th Annual International Tax Symposium. Please join presenters Céline Braumann, Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law and Fadi Shaheen, Professor of Law and Professor Charles Davenport Scholar, Rutgers Law School.  Yariv Brauner, Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation, University of Florida Levin College of Law, moderates the panel discussion, BEPS 2.0 and the Role of the UN in the International Tax Regime, with Steven Dean, Professor of Law & Paul Siskind Research Scholar, Boston University School of Law; Afton Titus, Associate Professor of Law, University of Cape Town Faculty of Law; Lorenzo Uribe, Republic of Colombia Government; and Shay Menuchin, Global Tax Policy Lead, KPMG Private Enterprise. Please contact brauner@law.ufl.edu for more information and the Zoom link.
Time: 9:00 a.m. – 2:15 p.m. ET
Location: Holland Hall 359 and Virtual
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Monday, October 30

POSTPONED: Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

This event has been postponed until the spring semester. Please check our Spring 2024 Academic Workshop page for an update.  Nadia Banteka, Gary & Sallyn Pajcic Professor, Florida State University College of Law; presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Please check back for a new date in the Spring Semester

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Monday, November 6

University of Florida Levin College of Law Institute for Dispute Resolution Fall Workshop

Amy Schmitz, Co-Director, Translational Data Analytics Institute Responsible Data Science, John Deaver Drinko-Baker & Hostetler Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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Monday, November 13

Marshall M. Criser Distinguished Faculty Workshop

Saikrishna Prakash, James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law and Albert Clark Tate, Jr., Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law, presents. Please contact ruthm@law.ufl.edu for more information.
Time: Noon ET
Location: Bailey Event Space
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The Florida Constitutional Law Endowment in memory of Justice Ben F. Overton was created by Judge Karen Miller in 2013. This fund supports lectures and presentations by Justices of the Florida Supreme Court at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law.

HISTORY

Justice Overton, who earned his B.S. in 1951 and his Juris Doctor in 1952 from the University of Florida, was the first merit appointment to the Florida Supreme Court. Throughout his career he was active in legal education and served as an Adjunct Professor at the Levin College of Law through December 2012, the month of his death. Although he resided at Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, a continuing care retirement community developed in cooperation with UF, he also considered the Florida Supreme Court “home.” Among the high points of his later years was hosting Justices of the Florida Supreme Court in Gainesville and taking his class to Tallahassee to hear oral arguments at the Florida Supreme Court.
Judge Miller, who earned her B.S. cum laude from New York University in 1974 and her Juris Doctor from New York Law School in 1977, served as Chief Administrative Law Judge of the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs, New York City’s business regulatory agency, before she retired to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida. Having accompanied Justice Overton on his excursions to Tallahassee and joined him in welcoming guests to Oak Hammock at the University of Florida, she created the endowment in memory of Justice Overton to ensure that the Levin College of Law continues to have the funding necessary to continue and enhance the interaction between its students and the Florida Supreme Court.

 

Judge Miller remembered the event that motivated the endowment.

 

Prior to a dinner at the home of Dean Robert Jerry and Lisa Jerry shortly after Justice Overton’s death, Justice Barbara Pariente and I were discussing a suitable memorial. Justice Pariente, who had been Justice Overton’s colleague on the Florida Supreme Court and who understood the importance to him of the interaction between his students and the Court, suggested the outline of what has become the Overton lectures. Dean Jerry, who has since retired, as has Dean Emeritus Jon Mills, who assumed responsibility for implementing the Overton lectures, were very supportive from the beginning. Since Dean Mills’ retirement, Professor Timothy McClendon, who assisted both Justice Overton and Dean Mills teaching Florida Constitutional Law and who co-authored the recent Florida Constitutional Law casebook, has continued the Overton lectures with the support of Interim Dean Merritt McAlister and CGR director, Professor Danaya Wright.

Justice Overton was a devoted jurist, educator, and ethical leader of the Florida legal profession. The Overton Lecture Series brings Florida Supreme Court Justices to the University of Florida, Levin College of Law, and serves to introduce students to the inner workings of the Court. CGR and the students of the College of Law extend our deepest gratitude to Judge Karen Miller for making the Overton Lectures possible in perpetuity.

You can watch an interview for the Florida Historical Society by Mary Adkins, professor emeritus of the UF Levin College of Law, with Justice Overton here.

Justice Overton was also interviewed for the Samuel Proctor Oral History Project and a transcript of his interview is available at the Smathers Library, and here.
Justice Overton sat on the Constitution Revision Commission of 1977-78 that proposed a right to privacy in the Florida Constitution. Although it failed as part of the Constitution Revision Commission recommendations, it passed in 1980 when proposed by the legislature. The bill was co-sponsored by our very own Jon Mills. The privacy provision prevailed by greater than 60%. Justice Overton then wrote a concurrence in a critical reproductive rights case in 1989 affirming that the privacy provision of the Florida Constitution included the right to obtain an abortion. That decision was overruled in Planned Parenthood of SW and Central Florida v. Florida. You can read about the role of Justice Overton, Jon Mills – director emeritus of CGR, and the history of the 1989 case here.