Stetson University offers capital litigators crime scene to courtroom training

Litigators who work on death penalty cases immersed themselves in a complimentary two-day crime scene to courtroom training seminar at St. Pete Beach on July 11-12 offered by Stetson University College of Law. Seminar topics included forensic science 101 for capital litigation; forensic report wording and statistics–interpreting DNA results; science research for lawyers; and forensics after the National Academy of Sciences Report. Nationally known experts… » Read more


ABA Journal – July 12, 2016 – Professor Louis Virelli

Professor Louis Virelli’s comments in the Washington Post on Justice Ginsburg’s statements regarding GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump have been picked up by the ABA Journal.… » Read more


Atlanta Black Star – July 12, 2016 – Professor Charles Rose

Professor Charles Rose is quoted in the article, “Florida Lawmaker Wants Blue Lives Matter Law,” that ran in the weekend Times and was picked up by the Atlanta Black Star.… » Read more


Cleveland Plain Dealer – July 12, 2016 – Professor Louis Virelli

Professor Louis Virelli is quoted in the Cleveland Plain Dealer article, “Did Ginsburg cross line with Trump remarks?”… » Read more


Recipes for legal writing: Stetson University launches new project at Legal Writing Institute conference

Stetson University College of Law’s Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication is launching “Teaching Legal Writing: Out of the Box Ideas Inside,” an educational service project with legal writing experts around the country. Stetson University Professor of Law Kirsten Davis will introduce the project during the Legal Writing Institute Biennial Conference in Portland on July 10-13, with the goal of sharing favorite legal writing… » Read more


Washington Post – July 11, 2016 – Professor Louis Virelli

Professor Louis Virelli is quoted in the Washington Post article, “In her remarks on the presumptive GOP nominee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg may have trumped her usual outspokenness.”… » Read more


Tampa Bay Times – July 8, 2016 – Professor Charles Rose

Professor Charles Rose with the Tampa Bay Times is quoted in the story on Blue Lives Matter in the wake of a national debate over police shootings and Black Lives Matter. … » Read more


CryptoCoinNews – July 8, 2016 – Professor Carla Reyes

Visiting Professor Carla Reyes is quoted in the CryptoCoinNews article, “North Carolina Governor Signs Bitcoin-Friendly ‘Virtual Currency Law’.”… » Read more


Coinspeaker – July 7, 2016 – Professor Carla Reyes

Professor Carla Reyes is quoted in the Coinspeaker article, “North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory Signed Bitcoin Bill Into Law.”… » Read more


Class of 1966 alumni join Florida Bar 50-year member celebration

Stetson University College of Law alumni Frank J. Aloia Sr. J.D. ’66, Anthony A. Balasso J.D. ’66, Kenneth C. Deacon Jr. J.D. ’66, Ernest S. Marshall J.D. ’66, Bruce Thomas McKinley J.D. ’66 and Melvyn Trute J.D. ’66 were among more than a dozen Stetson law school alumni recently honored at the Florida Bar luncheon celebrating 50-year members during the Florida Bar Annual Convention on… » Read more


Riverfront Times – July 6, 2016 – Professor Roberta Flowers

Professor Roberta Flowers spoke with the Riverfront Times in St. Louis about how the courts handle elder offenders in homicides.… » Read more


Politico – July 5, 2016 – Professor Ellen Podgor

Professor Ellen Podgor is quoted in the Politico article, “Comey takes heat for ‘unprecedented’ rebuke.”… » Read more