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Faculty Directory
UF Law faculty are legal scholars and teachers whose research, scholarship, practice and experience make them authorities on a wide range of current and historical legal issues. Our faculty directory links to each faculty member's research and contact information. Many faculty are willing to speak with the media on a variety of topics. Explore our directory below, and feel free to contact Richard Goldstein at goldstein@law.ufl.edu to reach experts for specific requests.
Mary Adkins
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Director, Legal Writing & Appellate Advocacy
Master Legal Skills Professor
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Nathaniel Amdur-Clark
Visiting Assistant Professor
Expertise: Federal Indian Law • Legislative Advocacy •
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Mary Jane Angelo
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University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
Alumni Research Scholar
Director, Environmental and Land Use Law Program
Expertise: Environmental Law • Sustainability •
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Thomas T. Ankersen
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Director, Conservation Clinic
Center for Governmental Responsibility
Expertise: Environmental Law • Sustainability •
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Fletcher N. Baldwin
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Emeritus Professor
Past recipient of the Chesterfield Smith Professorship
Director of The Centre For International Financial Crimes Studies
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Roger D. Blair
Affiliate Professor of Law
Walter J. Matherly Professor
Chair, Department of Economics, Warrington College of Business Administration
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Stephanie Bornstein
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Assistant Professor of Law
Expertise: Civil Litigation & Procedure • Civil Rights • Discrimination • Employment Discrimination • Employment Law • Gender & the Law • Sexual Harrassment • Title IX •
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Yariv Brauner
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Hugh Culverhouse Eminent Scholar Chair in Taxation
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Alumni Research Scholar
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
Expertise: Corporate Tax • International Economic Law • International Tax • Mergers & Acquisitions • Public International Law •
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Karen Burke
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Professor
Richard B. Stephens Eminent Scholar
Expertise: Corporate & Business Tax • Partnership Tax • Tax Law • Tax Policy •
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Dennis A. Calfee
Professor
Alumni Research Scholar
Expertise: Estates & Trusts • Federal Income Tax • Tax Law •
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Jonathan R. Cohen
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Professor
Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution • Evidence • Jewish Law • Negotiation • Religion and Religious Freedom •
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Stuart R. Cohn
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Professor
Sam T. Dell Research Scholar
Expertise: Business & Corporate Law • Mergers • Securities •
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Charles W. Collier
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Professor
Affiliate Professor of Philosophy
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Constitutional Law • First Amendment • Fourteenth Amendment • Gun Rights • Legal Theory • Second Amendment • Supreme Court •
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Deborah Cupples
Master Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Art Law • Contract Negotiation and Drafting • Legal Document Drafting •
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Elizabeth Dale
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University of Florida Research Foundation Professor 2013 - 2015
Professor of Law and Professor of History (Joint Appointment with Department of History)
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Constitutional Law • Fourteenth Amendment • Legal History •
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Shamika Dalton
Head of Reference and Instructional Services, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Legal Research •
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Robin K. Davis
Director, Institute for Dispute Resolution
Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Alternative Dispute Resolution • Arbitration • Mediation • Restorative Justice •
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Jeffrey Davis
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Professor
Gerald A. Sohn Research Scholar
Expertise: Bankruptcy • Commercial Law • Contracts •
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George R. “Bob” Dekle
Director, Criminal Prosecution Clinic
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Master Lecturer
Expertise: Campus Climate • Criminal Defense • Criminal Law • Criminal Prosecution • Death Penalty • Ethics & Professional Responsibility • Evidence • Insanity Defense, Mental Health, Capacity to Stand Trial • Mental Health • Police Practices • Sex Offenders • Sexual Violence •
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Larry A. DiMatteo
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Affiliate Professor of Law
Huber Hurst Professor of Contract Law & Legal Studies Warrington College of Business
Expertise: Contracts • European Union •
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Nancy E. Dowd
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Professor
David H. Levin Chair in Family Law
Emeritus Director, Center on Children & Families
Expertise: Constitutional Law • Critical Race Theory • Family Law • Feminist Theory • Masculinities Theory •
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Teresa Drake
Director, Intimate Partner Violence Assistance Clinic (IPVAC)
Visiting Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Domestic Violence •
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Mark Fenster
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Professor
Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Tort Professor
Expertise: Administrative Law • Federal Administrative Law • Freedom of Information Act • Government Information • Legislation • Regulatory Takings • Statutory Interpretation •
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Ben Fernandez
Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Civil Litigation & Procedure • Contract Negotiation and Drafting • Legal Document Drafting • Legal Research • Legal Writing • Property Law •
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Joan D. Flocks
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Director, Social Policy Division Center for Governmental Responsibility
Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Latin American Studies
Expertise: Environmental Justice • Farmworkers • Housing • Migrant Labor • Poverty Law •
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Alyson Craig Flournoy
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Professor
Alumni Research Scholar
Expertise: Administrative Law • Environmental Justice • Environmental Law • Federal Administrative Law • Property Law • Sustainability • Wetlands •
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Michael K. Friel
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Professor Emeritus
Expertise: Federal Income Tax • Tax Law •
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Claire M. Germain
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Associate Dean for Legal Information
Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law
Expertise: Comparative Law • Europe • European Union • Legal Information and Technology • Legal Research •
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Jeffrey T. Grater
Director, Virgil Hawkins Civil Clinics
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Clinical Legal Education • Family Law • Interviewing and Counseling • Mediation •
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Richard Hamann
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Associate in Law
Center for Governmental Responsibility
Expertise: Environmental Law • Sustainability • Water Law • Wetlands •
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William Hamilton
Executive Director of UF Law E-Discovery Project
Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Civil Procedure • Commercial Litigation • Contract Litigation • Electronic Discovery •
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Jeffrey L Harrison
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Professor
Stephen C. O'Connell Chair
Expertise: Antitrust • Contracts • Copyright • Economics •
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David Hasen
Professor of Law
Expertise: Federal Income Tax • Jurisprudence and Political Theory • Tax History • Tax Policy • Taxation of Commercial Products and Entities •
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Monique Haughton Worrell
Director, Criminal Justice Center
Director, Criminal Defense Clinic
Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Child Welfare • Criminal Defense • Family Law • Juvenile Justice • Sexual Abuse •
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Berta Esperanza Hernández-Truyol
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Levin Mabie and Levin Professor
Expertise: Civil Rights • Comparative Law • Cuba • European Union • Human Rights • Human Trafficking • Immigration Law • International and Transnational Law • LGBT Issues • Marriage Equality • Race & Race Relations • Sexual Orientation • Sovereignty • Transgender Rights • War and War Crimes • Women, Gender and the Law •
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Mindy Herzfeld
Director, LL.M. in International Tax Program
Professor
Expertise: Tax Law •
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Darren Hutchinson
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Professor
Stephen C. O'Connell Chair
Expertise: Abortion and Reproductive Rights • Affirmative Action • Bill of Rights • Citizenship • Civil Rights • Constitutional Law • Executive Powers • Federal Courts • Fifteenth Amendment • Fourteenth Amendment • Gay Rights • LGBT Issues • Presidential Powers • Section 1983 Suits • Sexual Harrassment • Sexual Orientation • Transgender Rights • Voting Rights •
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Joseph S. Jackson
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Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Equal Protection • Gay Rights • LGBT Issues • Sexual Orientation •
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Michelle S. Jacobs
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Professor
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Campus Climate • Criminal Law • Critical Race Theory • Sexual Violence •
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E. Lea Johnston
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Professor of Law
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Campus Climate • Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure • Eighth Amendment • Mental Health • Sentencing • Sexual Violence • Sixth Amendment •
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Shani M. King
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Professor
Director, Center on Children and Families
Expertise: Children's Rights • Education Law • Family Law • Immigration Law • Juvenile Justice • Sexual Abuse •
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Christine A. Klein
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Chesterfield Smith Professor
University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
Director, LL.M. Program in Environmental & Land Use Law
Expertise: Environmental Law • Natural Resources • Property Law • Sustainability • Water Law •
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Leslie Knight
Master Legal Skills Professor
Director, Legal Drafting Program
Expertise: Business Transactions • Commercial Litigation • Contract Negotiation and Drafting • Higher Education • Intellectual Property Licensing • Legal Document Drafting •
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Avery Le
Technology & Digital Services Librarian, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Intellectual Property • Legal Research • Technology •
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Elizabeth T. Lear
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Professor, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Expertise: Class Action and Complex Litigation • Conflict of Laws • Eleventh Amendment • Federal Courts • Federal Jurisdiction • Seventh Amendment •
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Sarah Lewis
Reference Librarian
Expertise: Business & Corporate Law • Mergers & Acquisitions • Securities •
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Charlene Luke
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UF Research Foundation Professor
Expertise: Corporations • Partnership Law • Tax Law •
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Pedro A. Malavet
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Professor
Expertise: Civil Litigation & Procedure • Comparative Law • Critical Race Theory • Evidence • Puerto Rico • Sovereignty • U.S. Territorial Possessions •
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Taryn Marks
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Faculty Services Librarian, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Business & Corporate Law • Foreign and Comparative Law • International and Transnational Law •
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Amy R. Mashburn
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Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Director, Lawyering and Professionalism Program
Professor
Expertise: Civil Litigation & Procedure • Ethics & Professional Responsibility • Legal Education • Seventh Amendment • Sexual Harrassment • Title IX •
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Grayson McCouch
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Professor
Gerald Sohn Professor of Law
Expertise: Estate Planning • Estates & Trusts • Probate and Fiduciary Administration • Taxation of Estates & Trusts • Trusts • Wills •
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Timothy McLendon
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Staff Attorney
Center for Governmental Responsibility
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Constitutional Law • Florida Constitution • Fourteenth Amendment •
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Martin J. McMahon Jr.
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James J. Freeland Eminent Scholar
Emeritus Professor
Expertise: Corporate & Business Tax • Federal Income Tax • Partnership Tax • Tax Policy •
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Silvia Menendez
Sr. Legal Skills Professor
Director of Externship Programs
Expertise: Legal Document Drafting •
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Jon L. Mills
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Professor of Law
Dean Emeritus
Director, Center for Governmental Responsibility
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Constitutional Law • Cyber Law • Environmental Law • Executive Powers • First Amendment • Florida Constitution • Florida Sunshine Act • Fourteenth Amendment • Latin America • Legislation • Presidential Powers • Privacy • Social Media • Statutory Interpretation • Sustainability •
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Patricia Morgan
Head of Access Services and Outreach, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Court Rules and Procedures • Legal Research • Library Outreach •
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Fred F. Murray
Director of the Graduate Tax Program
Professor of Law
Expertise: Tax Law •
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Winston Nagan, FRSA
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Samuel T. Dell Research Scholar Professor of Law
Affiliate Professor of Anthropology
Affiliate Professor of Latin-American Studies
Affiliate Professor African Studies
Expertise: Africa and African Studies • Human Rights • International and Transnational Law • Legal Theory •
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Jason P. Nance
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Associate Professor of Law
Associate Director for Education Law and Policy, Center on Children and Families
Expertise: Education Law • Empirical Research • Legal Education • Remedies • Title VI • Tort Law •
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Kenneth B. Nunn
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Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Affirmative Action • Africa and African Studies • Bill of Rights • Campus Climate • Civil Rights • Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure • Legal Theory • Race & Race Relations • Sexual Violence • Sixth Amendment • Stand Your Ground Law •
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Michael T. Olexa
Professor of Agricultural Law: Food and Resource Economics Department
Director, UF/IFAS Center for Agricultural and Natural Resource Law
Affiliate Professor of Law
Expertise: Agricultural Law •
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William H. Page
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Professor
Marshall M. Criser Eminent Scholar in Electronic Communications and Adminstrative Law
Expertise: Antitrust • Class Action Litigation • Economics •
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Leanne J. Pflaum
Master Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Advocacy • Appellate Advocacy • Legal Research • Legal Writing • Professionalism •
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Rachel Purcell
Information Management Librarian, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Cataloging Services • Information Management • Legal Research •
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Meshon Rawls
Master Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Children's Rights • Criminal Defense •
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Shalini Ray
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Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Immigration Law • International and Transnational Law • Refugee Law •
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Teresa (Rambo) Reid
Master Legal Skills Professor
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Attorney Conduct • Campus Climate • Criminal Law • Death Penalty • Ethics & Professional Responsibility • Legal Writing • Professionalism • Sexual Violence •
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Robert J. Rhee
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John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Professor of Law
Expertise: Business & Corporate Law • Corporate Finance • Empirical Research • Fiduciary Duties • Mergers & Acquisitions • Regulation of Financial Institutions •
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Leonard L. Riskin
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Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law
Expertise: Mediation • Negotiation •
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Laura Rosenbury
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Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law
Affiliate Professor with the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Expertise: Abortion and Reproductive Rights • Children's Rights • Employment Law • Estates & Trusts • Experiential Learning • Family Law • Gender and the Law • Legal Theory • Property Law • Sexual Abuse • Sexual Harrassment • Women, Gender and the Law •
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Elizabeth A. Rowe
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Feldman Gale Term Professor in IP Law
Distinguished Teaching Scholar
Director, Program in Intellectual Property Law
Expertise: Intellectual Property • Patents • Trade Secrets • Trademarks •
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Betsy L. Ruff
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Appellate Advocacy • Legal Research • Legal Writing •
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Sharon Elizabeth Rush
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Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Irving Cypen Professor of Law
Associate Director, Center on Children & Families
Co-founder, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations
Expertise: Abortion and Reproductive Rights • Affirmative Action • Bill of Rights • Civil Rights • Constitutional Law • Eleventh Amendment • Federal Courts • Federalism • Fourteenth Amendment • Race & Race Relations • Section 1983 Suits • Sexual Harrassment • States Rights • Supreme Court • Tenth Amendment • Title IX •
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Katheryn Russell-Brown
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Chesterfield Smith Professor of Law
Director, Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Campus Climate • Criminal Law • Race & Crime • Sexual Violence • Stand Your Ground Law •
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D. Daniel Sokol
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University of Florida Research Foundation Professor
Expertise: Antitrust • Business & Corporate Law • Compliance • Economics • Empirical Research • Entrepreneurship • Fiduciary Duties • Regulation of Financial Institutions •
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Amy L. Stein
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Associate Professor of Law
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Climate Change • Distributed Energy • Energy • Environmental Law • Federalism • Fracking • Renewable Energy • States Rights • Sustainability • Tenth Amendment •
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Stacey Steinberg
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Legal Skills Professor
Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
Expertise: Appellate Advocacy • Campus Climate • Child Welfare • Children's Rights • Criminal Law • Family Law • Juvenile Justice • Legal Writing • Sexual Abuse • Sexual Violence • Social Media •
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John F. Stinneford
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University Term Professor
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Constitutional Law • Criminal Law • Criminal Procedure • Ethics & Professional Responsibility • Legal Ethics • Professional Responsibility • Sentencing • White Collar Crime •
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Margaret Temple-Smith
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Legal Document Drafting •
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Diane A. Tomlinson
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Appellate Advocacy • Legal Research • Legal Writing •
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Lee-Ford Tritt
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Professor of Law
Director, Center for Estate Planning
Director, Estate Planning Practice Program
Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
Expertise: Art Law • Bill of Rights • Charitable Entities and Charitable Giving • Estate Planning • Estates & Trusts • Federal Transfer Taxes (Estate, Gift and GST) • Fiduciary Duties • Gun Rights • Legislation • Marriage Equality • Probate and Fiduciary Administration • Second Amendment • Statutory Interpretation • Wills •
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Christopher Vallandingham
Head of Collections, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Florida Territorial Law • Intelligence Law • Law of Armed Conflict • Military Law • National Security Law •
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Todd Venie
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Associate Director, Legal Information Center
Expertise: Instruction • Legal Research •
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Henry T. Wihnyk
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Senior Legal Skills Professor
Expertise: Appellate Advocacy • Legal Research • Legal Writing • Tort Law •
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Steven J. Willis
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Professor of Law
Expertise: Accounting • Bill of Rights • Charitable Entities and Charitable Giving • Family Law • Federalism • Sexual Abuse • States Rights • Tax Law • Tenth Amendment •
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Michael Allan Wolf
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Professor of Law
Richard E. Nelson Chair in Local Government Law
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Constitutional History • Constitutional Law • Eminent Domain • Environmental Law • Fifth Amendment • Fourteenth Amendment • Fracking • Land Use • Legal History • Local Government • Ninth Amendment • Property Law • Real Estate • Religion and Religious Freedom • Sustainability • Urban Revitalization • Zoning •
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Danaya C. Wright
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Clarence J. TeSelle Endowed Professor
Expertise: Bill of Rights • Constitutional Law • Estates & Trusts • Family Law • Feminist Jurisprudence • Fifth Amendment • Fourteenth Amendment • Future Interests • Legal History • LGBT Issues • Marriage Equality • Property Law • Railroads and Railroad Law • Sexual Abuse • Sexual Orientation • Takings Clause Jurisprudence • Transgender Rights • Women, Gender and the Law •
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Jennifer Zedalis
Director, Trial Practice
Senior Legal Skills Professor
Coordinator, Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender CLE Course
Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
Expertise: Criminal Law • Evidence • Mental Health •
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Wentong Zheng
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Associate Professor
Expertise: Antitrust and Competition Policy • Chinese Law and Economy • International Intellectual Property • International Trade and Business •