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Anthony Palermo et al., Highlights from Seminar on Governmental Investigations Involving the Debt Collection Industry (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Royal C. Gardner et al., Bibliography of 2015 Scientific Publications on the Ramsar Convention or Ramsar Sites (2016)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This paper provides a consolidated and categorized bibliography of scientific articles published in 2015 that discuss the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands or individual Ramsar Sites. The articles are separated into two main categories: (a) articles that discuss the Ramsar Convention or its implementation generally, and (b) articles about wetland sites that are on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance. Articles in the latter category are further separated into subcategories by region (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and Oceania). Each entry summarizes the article’s Ramsar connection. This bibliography is intended to facilitate research and provide timely, relevant article updates to the members of the Ramsar community.
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Kirsten K. Davis et al., Law and Rhetoric Bibliography: Selected Readings and Resources (2015)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
This bibliography contains suggested readings and resources for learning about rhetorical theory from a number of vantage points, including foundational materials, rhetorical methods, law and rhetoric, rhetorical approaches to studying and teaching legal writing, and rhetorical criticism of legal texts.
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Kristen R. Moore, Florida Statutory and Legislative Materials are Online (2014)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
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Elizabeth Berenguer, Disaster Unaverted: Reconciling the Desire for a Safe and Secure State with the Grim Realities of Stand Your Ground (2013)Clicking on the button will copy the full recommended citation.
“On February 26, 2012, heavy pressures collided in a tempest resulting in Trayvon Martin’s death. On one side, an eager neighborhood watchman desperate to curtail the rising vandalism and crime in his gated community. On the other, a teenage boy walking from a nearby store through this same neighborhood toward the townhome where he was temporarily staying while visiting his father. In the background, a galvanizing law seven years looming, burrowing into societal norms, making it okay to shoot first and ask questions later.” Florida’s Stand Your Ground statutory scheme has dominated the media since the calamitous encounter between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. This Article follows up on this Author’s 2010 article, Deadly Combinations: How Self-Defense Laws Pairing Immunity with a Presumption of Fear Allow Criminals to “Get Away with Murder, 34 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 105 (2010). In 2010, this Author predicted the law would promote a rise in vigilante justice in that it “creates a mindset to ‘shoot first, ask later.’” This Article takes that prediction a step further and boldly states that the legislature has fundamentally changed the nature of self-defense. Rather than recognizing an affirmative defense to arguably justifiable uses of force, it has legalized many forms of homicide. Additionally, this Article analyzes the law through a lens of embodied rationality to identify the culture-law-culture cycle and the competing narratives that (1) gave rise to the law, (2) impacted the actions of both Zimmerman and Martin, and (3) affected prosecution, defense, and judicial legal strategies and choices related to the shooting and resultant trial. This article concludes by asserting Florida’s Stand Your Ground law does not reflect collectively-held norms and values as evidenced by the media narratives surrounding Martin’s death. As such, this Article calls for legislative change to retreat from legalized homicide returning to the maxim of self-defense as an affirmative defense.
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Tim Kaye, Shaking the World Gently, 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.
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Tim Kaye, Torts as Relational Contracts, 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.
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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.