Faculty workshops & guest speakers

The University of Florida Levin College of Law Faculty’s scholarly activities are exciting and diverse. The Faculty Workshop Series provides an opportunity for faculty and invited guests to read papers and engage in lively discussions on a variety of cutting-edge topics. This year’s speakers include several of our own faculty and faculty from other prominent law schools, including Dartmouth, Emory, Georgia State, New York, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, Santa Barbara, Vanderbilt, and Wake Forest.

Unless otherwise indicated, the workshops are by invitation only and will take place in the Faculty Lounge from 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Fall 2016

August 30 (Tuesday)

Daniel Sokol — Determinants of Medical Device Recalls
Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law

September 1 (Thursday) – Faculty Luncheon
September 2 (Friday)- Wolf Family Lecture

Bill Fischel  — The Economic History of Zoning
Professor Economics and Robert C. 1925 & Hilda Hardy Professor of Legal Studies
Dartmouth College

September 6 (Tuesday)

Christopher Vallandingham — Territorial Courts
Head of Collections, Legal Information Center
University of Florida Levin College of Law

September 16 (Friday)

Diego Molano — The New Economy in Latin America (Focusing on the Digital Economy)
Former Minister of Information Technologies and Communications of Colombia

September 22 (Thursday)

Yesha Yadav  — The Governance Gap in Fragmented Markets
Associate Professor of Law
Vanderbilt Law School

September 27 (Tuesday)

Thomas Ankersen  — Megaprojects
Director, Conservation Clinic, Center for Governmental Responsibility
University of Florida Levin College of Law

October 6 (Thursday)

Destiny Peery  — Beyond Explicit Bias: Evolving Conceptions of Bias and Anti-Discrimination Law’s Difficult Adoption
Assistant Professor of Law
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law

October 11 (Tuesday)

Taryn Marks — Business Law Research Pedagogy
Faculty Services Librarian
University of Florida Levin College of Law

October 13 (Thursday)
Weyrauch Family Lecture

Victor Rios  — Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys
Professor of Sociology
University of California, Santa Barbara

November 4 (Friday)

Michael Kang  — Judicial Partisan Loyalty in Election Cases
Professor of Law, David S. Bederman Research Professor
Emory Law School

Spring 2017

January 10 (Tuesday)

Laura Rosenbury  —  
Dean and Levin, Mabie & Levin Professor of Law, Affiliate Professor with the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
University of Florida Levin College of Law

January 17 (Tuesday)

Mary Adkins  —  
Director, Legal Writing and Appellate Advocacy, Master Legal Skills Professor
University of Florida Levin College of Law

January 19 (Thursday)

Sidney Shapiro  —  
Frank U. Fletcher Chair of Administrative Law
Wake Forest University School of Law

January 24 (Tuesday)

Mark Fenster  —  
Professor of Law, Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Hazouri & Roth Tort Professor
University of Florida Levin College of Law

February 7 (Tuesday)

Robert Rhee  —  
John H. And Mary Lou Dasburg Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law

February 14 (Tuesday)

Amy Stein  —  
Associate Professor of Law
University of Florida Levin College of Law

February 21 (Tuesday)

Anne Tucker  — Portfolio Turnover
Associate Professor of Law
Georgia State University College of Law

February 24 (Friday)

David Skeel  —  
S. Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School

February 28 (Tuesday)

Sharon Rush  — Intergroup Contact Theory and Integrated Schools
Associate Dean for Faculty Development, Irving Cypen Professor of Law, Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
University of Florida Levin College of Law

March 21 (Tuesday)

Adam Smith  — Tax Law Confidential
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Florida Levin College of Law

March 31 (Friday)

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler  —  
Professor of Law, Faculty Director, NYU Law in Buenos Aires
New York University School of Law

April 4 (Tuesday)

Jennifer Zedalis  — Law’s Language
Director, Trial Practice, Senior Legal Skills Professor, Coordinator, Gerald T. Bennett Prosecutor/Public Defender CLE Course, Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
University of Florida Levin College of Law

April 11 (Tuesday)

Jason Nance  —  
Associate Professor of Law, Associate Director, Center on Children and Families
University of Florida Levin College of Law

April 18 (Tuesday)

Lea Johnston  —  
Professor of Law, Assistant Director, Criminal Justice Center
University of Florida Levin College of Law