By Ian Millhiser VoxAug. 25, 2020 Excerpt Prof. Ciara Torres-Spelliscy America could become even less democratic if President Donald Trump gets to fill another Supreme Court seat. “There are already five conservative votes on the Supreme Court to dismantle campaign finance reforms,” according to Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, a law professor at Stetson University and an expert on money in politics. In this sense, Torres-Spelliscy told me,… » Read more

Dean Alexandre with the trophy. The Florida Bar Foundation announced the winners of the 2020 Florida Pro Bono Law School Challenge, and Stetson Law took top honors for most law school clinic engagement. “This is great news,” said Christine E. Cerniglia, director of Clinical and Experiential Education at Stetson Law. This is the second iteration of the Challenge, which launched with a pilot version in… » Read more

This year’s orientation was one of the longest and most logistically complicated programs in the law school’s history. Stetson Law staff worked hard to accommodate this year’s large incoming class while maintaining physical distancing. Mario Makram, an incoming first year law student from Clearwater, said he was nervous on his first day of orientation August 11. But, he clarified, it was typical “first day of… » Read more

Starting August 1, 2020, Stetson Law students will have access to real-time virtual medical consultations with physicians 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through a new telehealth partnership with iSelectMD. Students can simply visit https://mhealth.iselectmd.com/stetson-law.html to register and create an account. They will then gain access to a toll-free number and/or mobile health portal for consultations with health care providers for COVID-19 concerns,… » Read more

Clinical and Experiential Education is a key component of the Stetson Law experience, one that College of Law officials feared might be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Faculty and staff, expecting that many of Stetson’s community and professional externship partners might not be able to host students in summer 2020, did what they do best: innovated. In an effort to simulate the learning opportunity students… » Read more

PRESS RELEASEJuly 14, 2020 GULFPORT, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law and Community Law Program (CLP) received a $33,500 grant from the American Bar Endowment (ABE) to create clinics to help returning citizens previously convicted of felonies get their voting rights restored. In 2018, 65 percent of Floridians voted to amend the Florida Constitution to restore voting rights to 1.4 million citizens previously convicted… » Read more

Professor Stacey-Rae Simcox. As part of digital ABA Day, Professor Stacey-Rae Simcox led a panel of experts from the National Law School Veterans Clinic Consortium — a group dedicated to addressing the unique legal needs of military veterans — in discussing the importance of Legal Services for Homeless Veterans Act. As part of her introduction, Simcox explained Stetson’s Veterans Law Institute’s role in the community.… » Read more

Environmental and tax law professors at Stetson Law hosted a virtual awards ceremony for the winners of the inaugural Stetson Environmental Tax Policy Writing Competition. Top row from left: second place winner Daniel Raymer, Professor Andrew Appleby, and Assistant Director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy Erin Okuno. Second row from left: Director of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy Royal Gardner,… » Read more

The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) announced that Stetson Law’s own Professor Rebecca C. Morgan is the winner of the 2020 Powley Elder Law Award. The award is presented annually to a NAELA member who is recognized in his or her community as a leader in promoting a greater understanding of the rights and needs of the elderly and people with special needs, and of how elder law attorneys advocate for those rights.

GULFPORT, Fla. (June 24 2020) – In light of longstanding and recent acts of racist violence, the Deans of the 12 law schools in Florida have formed the Florida Law Schools’ Consortium for Racial Justice (FLSCRJ).  This collective will leverage the strengths and educational roles of every law school in the state to assist community organizations fighting for racial justice and policy reform throughout Florida.… » Read more

Lori Baggett, bottom right, received the Outstanding Alumni Representative Award during the 2020 Stetson Lawyers Alumni Association Awards presentation on June 18. The Stetson Lawyers Alumni Association (SLAA) presented awards on June 18, 2020, to six individuals who have made a positive impact in the community and supported Stetson University College of Law. SLAA has honored alumni accomplishments with awards for more than 25 years. The ceremony typically… » Read more

Professor Louis J. Virelli III Louis J. Virelli, III, with co-authors Charles H. Koch, Jr. (William and Mary Law School), William S. Jordan, III (The University of Akron School of Law), and Richard W. Murphy (Texas Tech University School of Law), published the eighth edition of Administrative Law: Cases and Materials and accompanying teacher’s manual, through Carolina Academic Press this year. From the publisher This… » Read more