By Sarah Shirley Stetson Law celebrated Diversity Week with a series of special events on the Gulfport campus March 1-7. Diversity Week is organized by the Student Bar Association Diversity Committee and coincides with the ABA Diversity Day initiatives. The Diversity Committee coordinates and assists student organizations who wish to host a diversity-related event during Diversity Week and furthers the conversation about what diversity means… » Read more

Stetson hosts Social Justice Opportunity Forum for students. Photo by Eileen McGarry. By Julie McHaffie Stetson University College of Law held its first Social Justice Opportunity Forum on March 22. The Forum provided presentations from a variety of social justice practitioners and an opportunity for students to network, interact and ask questions. Professor Judith Scully delivered the opening address about access to justice and what… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s Veterans Advocacy Clinic recently helped secure long-denied benefits for an 80-year-old Tampa Bay area Navy veteran who was exposed to radiation during atomic bomb testing in the 1950s.The veteran is now eligible to receive disability benefits retroactive to April 2012, when he filed his claim. Stetson Law student Brian Paul presented the case before the Board of Veterans Appeals at the St.… » Read more

Rhyan Tompkins and Cindy Mercado presented the Foreman Biodiversity Lecture on March 5.Photo by Austin Sigl. By Sarah Shirley Rhyan Tompkins and Cindy Mercado, wildlife inspectors with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, presented the Foreman Bioversity Lecture on “The Black Market for Wildlife and America’s Front-line Defense” on March 5 at Stetson Law’s Gulfport campus. “Our job is to capture the illicit trade and… » Read more

Professor Luz Nagle, third from the left, with Wilson Herrera and members of the Junta. Professor of Law Luz Nagle spent Spring Break in Colombia working on social justice initiatives. Professor Nagle met with a family of shoemakers in Rionegro, Colombia. Professor Nagle met with the community-based social justice organization Junta de Accion Comunal San José, in a village in the municipality of Guarne, Colombia. She… » Read more

Michèle Alexandre Following a nationwide search, Stetson University Executive Vice President and Provost Noel Painter, Ph.D., announced the appointment of Michèle Alexandre, a noted civil rights, gender and race scholar, and author of “The New Frontiers of Civil Rights Litigation,” as the next dean of Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. Alexandre is the College of Law’s first African-American dean. The appointment is effective June 2019. “Dean… » Read more

Stetson’s Gulfport campus. For the 21st time, Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, is ranked the no. 1 school for Trial Advocacy in the U.S., according to U.S. News & World Report. Stetson is ranked no. 3 for Legal Writing, and is consistently among the top six programs for legal writing. “For 25 years, Stetson has distinguished itself among the top programs in… » Read more

Stetson University’s Elizabeth Hall in DeLand, Florida. On college campuses across the country, conversations about race, politics and other issues have become flashpoints in the debate over free speech. Eric Kurlander, Ph.D., Stetson professor of history, said faculty, staff and students can feel hesitant to discuss these important issues, fearing they may come under attack for expressing views that don’t conform to campus norms. Kurlander… » Read more

(L-R) Professor Lance Long, Adam Duh, Maria White, Kate Welch, Jake Black, Taylor Koufos, Jennifer Winn, Rachel Curran, and Jackie Lopez. By Jennifer Winn On March 2-3, Stetson Law students traveled with Professor Lance Long to the University of Oregon for the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference. “It was a great experience and we got to meet some of the most influential people in the… » Read more

(L-R): (Back row) Forest Sutton, Megan McGinn, JJ Meyer, Sam Powers, (front row) Dana Baker, Ariana Seiler, Kelli Motes, Mary Katherine Bleckley, and alumna Kaitlyn Dugas. Stetson University College of Law won the regional American Association of Justice trial competition in West Palm Beach, Florida, on March 1. The winning Stetson Law team of Dana Baker, Mary Katherine Bleckley, JJ Meyer and Ariana Seiler are… » Read more

By Sarah Shirley FAWLS at Stetson hosted the annual Women’s Week program. (L-R): Megan Summers, Rebecca Klonel, Shennia Laurence, Rachel Wise, Kim Lopater, Michelle Moretz, Emeraude Lerebours, Kelsey Norman and Taylor Scribner. The Florida Association of Women Lawyers at Stetson hosts an annual Women’s Week program to raise awareness, encourage advocacy, and initiate action on current women’s rights issues in the U.S. through various pro… » Read more