Culverhouse Chair and UCLA Law Professor Devon Carbado lectures on critical race judgements in a special class for students on Saturday, Feb. 8, 2020. By Brittany GivenStetson Law 3LFeb. 14, 2020 Devon Carbado, distinguished UCLA law professor and author, returned to Stetson Law on Feb. 8, 2020, as the new Culverhouse Chair to teach “Critical Race Judgments: Critical Race Theory and Supreme Court Decision making.”… » Read more

Sara Papantonio (left) and Raelyn Watson (center) won the regional National Trial Competition in Alabama and will head to the national finals in Texas in April. The winners are pictured here with their coach, Professor Julia Metts. Stetson Law’s Trial Team won the regional National Trial Competition hosted by Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Ala., Feb. 7-9, 2020, and will head to the national… » Read more

Dispute Resolution Board members competed in the regional client counseling competition in Louisville, Ky., last weekend. From left, Alina Acevedo (2L), Forest Sutton (3L), Gabriele Bodanza (2L), Bailey Peterson (2L), Jacqueline Phillips (2L), and Andrea Snipes-Booker (3L).  With a win Feb. 7-8, 2020, at the ABA Client Counseling regional competition at the University of Louisville- Louis D. Brandeis School of Law in Louisville, Ky., Stetson… » Read more

The Hon. Tangela M. Barrie was the 2020 recipient of the Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Public Service Award. The Hon. Tangela M. Barrie received the Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Public Service Award during the annual Inns of Court Banquet at Stetson University College of Law on Feb. 5, 2020. The prestigious Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Public Service Award recognizes individuals who have provided outstanding contributions… » Read more

By Evan DonovanNews Channel 8Feb. 2, 2020 Professor Louis Virelli This week, the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump featured several controversial legal arguments. Lou Virelli, professor of Constitutional law at Stetson Law School in Tampa Bay, joins 8 On Your Side political reporter Evan Donovan to break down the arguments on Battleground Florida, WFLA News Channel 8’s weekly local political show. Watch the segment from… » Read more

Associate Dean Jason Bent Associate Dean Jason R. Bent’s article, OSHA, the Opportunism Police, was published in the Brigham Young University Law Review in early 2020. From the Abstract When is paternalistic regulation of risky work justified, and who should get to decide that question? The prevailing economic account of OSHA regulation is that market interventions are justified only by spillover and informational market failures.… » Read more

From left: Christine Cerniglia, associate professor and director of Clinical and Experiential Education; Linda Anderson Stanley, ABA director of Disaster Legal Services and the senior manager for Disaster Programming at Equal Justice Works; and Jean-Luc Adrien, Community Justice Project of Miami – Equal Justice Works Disaster Recovery Legal Corp. Fellow. Stetson Law now offers a new course and corresponding externship experience designed to train students… » Read more

Stetson University, Stetson University College of Law and Pryor Education Insights will conduct a Campus Climate Survey to ask students, faculty and staff about the institution’s progress on becoming a more diverse, equitable and inclusive community. The confidential survey will arrive by email on Monday, Feb. 3. The deadline to respond is Friday, March 6.  Stetson University conducted its first campus climate survey in 2016, and… » Read more

James Forman Jr. Jan. 30, 2020 – Stetson University College of Law is excited to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Yale Law School Professor James Forman Jr. to campus as the keynote speaker for the Annual Inns of Court Banquet and Wm. Reece Smith, Jr. Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 5, 2020. Professor Forman is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School,… » Read more

Leland Ware Jan. 27, 2020 — Stetson University College of Law has selected Leland Ware as the recipient of this year’s William A. Kaplin Award. The Center for Excellence in Higher Education Law and Policy at Stetson University established the award in honor of Professor William A. Kaplin to recognize scholars who have published works on education law that embrace the intersection of law and… » Read more

The Stetson University College of Law Trial Team of, from left, Drew Trautman, Rachel Wise, Megan Tiralosi and Amy Trentalange won the 2020 Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition. Jan. 24, 2020 — The Stetson University College of Law Trial Team of Drew Trautman, Amy Trentalange, Megan Tiralosi, and Rachel Wise won the Chester Bedell Mock Trial Competition  Jan. 22-24 in Tampa, Florida. Megan Tiralosi also won… » Read more

Donation will provide security awareness training to employees, create scholarships and internships, and help develop the school’s cybersecurity law program. KnowBe4, the provider of the world’s largest security awareness training and simulated phishing platform, today announced it will make a $250,000 donation to Stetson University College of Law. The donation includes: Creation of the KnowBe4 Cybersecurity Law Scholarship Fund that will provide $5,000 merit-based scholarships… » Read more