Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo is Stetson Law’s Cornerstone Award winner
Judge Luis Felipe Restrepo of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has been selected as Stetson University College of Law’s Cornerstone Award winner. Judge Restrepo will be presented with the award during Stetson’s Educating Advocates Teaching Advocacy Skills conference on May 21-23 in Gulfport, Florida.
Judge Restrepo.
Judge Restrepo, who was born in Medellin, Colombia, has spent much of his legal career in public service as both a judge and an advocate. Judge Restrepo has presided over several significant civil rights cases on the bench. As both a magistrate and district judge, Judge Restrepo led a collaborative effort to help former inmates successfully reenter the community as productive citizens. Before serving on the bench, he spent 13 years in practice focusing on civil rights and criminal defense, and worked as a public defender in Philadelphia and as a member of the federal defenders unit.
Judge Restrepo is a visiting law professor in the LL.M. Trial Advocacy Program at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law, where he received the Gideon Award in 2014 for his work to ensure that the indigent are afforded competent counsel.
The Cornerstone Award recognizes exceptional members of the advocacy teaching community who work tirelessly to create learning opportunities across the profession. The recipients of the Cornerstone Award are recognized for their unwavering commitment to protecting the right to trial by jury, development of training opportunities for trial lawyers, and support of the profession in both word and deed.
The theme of this year’s Educating Advocates conference at Stetson is “Advocacy: Fulfilling the Promise of Experiential Learning.” The conference brings together academics and advocates from around the country to share ideas, sharpen their skills, and learn the nationally renowned Stetson Method of advocacy. To learn more about the conference, or to register for EATS, please visit https://www.stetson.edu/law/conferences/eats/.
Post date: April 12, 2018
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