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Brooke J. Bowman et al., Oral Argument: The Essential Guide (Stetson University Institute for the Advancement of Legal Education, 2018)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stephanie Vaughan, Experiential Learning: Moving Forward in Teaching Oral Advocacy Skills by Looking Back at the Origins of Rhetoric, 59 S. Tex. L. Rev. 121 (2017)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
What could make all the difference in a law student’s employment potential in today’s legal market? The answer is skills training. The American Bar Association (ABA) has required that law students be better prepared for practice by implementing experiential learning requirements for law students, which they must complete before graduation. One way to fulfill this experiential requirement is through oral advocacy.
This Article exemplifies how giving law students opportunities to orally advocate will help fulfill the experiential learning requirement and produce practice-ready graduates. It will explain the reasons that oral communication is so important and will give directives on how law schools, in compliance with the ABA standards, can help achieve the goals of graduating students who are ready to begin a legal practice from the minute they receive their bar results. This Article is among the first to explore the boundaries of experiential learning under the new ABA standards. It employs an historical analysis of the classical foundations of oral advocacy in order to develop best practices for law schools in “shifting the curriculum” to both comply with the ABA standards and to help students become successful practitioners in today’s global society.
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Stephanie Vaughan, From the King to the Colonies: A Muddying of the Sovereign Immunity Waters in America, in Shaking The World Gently: A Webfestschrift In Honor of Professor Robert Dale Bickel (Tim Kaye ed., Stetson University College of Law, 2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
From the King to the Colonies is a general review of sovereign immunity. This article tracks the doctrine from its birth in the English common law through its exportation to the United States federalist system of government, with a focus on the doctrine’s application within the state of Florida. While the article answers many questions about where sovereign immunity arose and why, it also highlights many of the unresolved issues surrounding the doctrine's application in Florida and concludes with an appeal to the Florida Supreme Court to “still the waters” and clarify the law.
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Stephanie Vaughan, Persuasian is an Art . . . But It is Also an Invaluable Tool in Advocacy, 61 Baylor L. Rev. 635 (2009)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
The article is about persuasion. It highlights the origins of advocacy, details how to write persuasive documents, and provides tips for presenting persuasive oral arguments. Appendices include practical checklists for editing and preparing for oral arguments, and a list of style tips. This Article is important because it gives advocates the tools they need to better prepare for making persuasive arguments, both in writing and orally, while grounding the “art of persuasion” in rhetoric and ancient-Greek philosophies and teachings.
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Stephanie Vaughan and Jack M. Graves, The Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot: Making the Most of an Extraordinary Educational Opportunity, 10 Vindobona Journal of International Commercial Law and Arbitration 173 (2006)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stephanie Vaughan and Kelly Feeley, Yes, You Will Really Use Algebra When You Grow Up: Providing Law Proof that Legal Research and Writing is Essential in the Real World, 10 Perspectives 105 (2002)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Stephanie Vaughan, One Key to Success: Working with Professors . . . Outside the Classroom, 29 Stetson L. Rev. 1255 (2000)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This article will focus on why out-of-classroom interaction with a law professor can be one of the most fulfilling in the law school experience.
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Stephanie Vaughan, A Tribute to Cal, 28 Stetson L. Rev. 1011 (1999)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This essay is a tribute to Calvin A. Kuenzel as part of the Calvin A. Kuenzel Memorial.
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Stephanie Vaughan, Comment, Municipal Immunity: A Historical and Modern Perspective, 19 Stetson L. Rev. 997 (1990)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This note is about sovereign immunity in Florida. It discusses the development of sovereign immunity as it applies to municipalities in general (through 1991). It also examines the specific limitations and attempted abrogation of the immunity rule, focusing on the confusing status of sovereign immunity in Florida.