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

Jan. 3, 2020 – Stetson University College of Law, as part of the annual Wills for Warriors event, will again partner with the Community Law Program in Pinellas County and the St. Petersburg Bar Foundation to prepare free simple wills and advance directives for low income veterans and their spouses aged 60 or older. The event will take place on Stetson Law’s campus in mid-February.… » Read more

Stetson University will launch an additional layer of online security known as multi-factor authentication this month for students, faculty and staff to log in when they are off-campus. Stetson will be a pioneer in cybersecurity initiatives as it is the first higher-education institution in the country to develop its own multi-factor authentication for its online services. The multi-factor authentication process will require students, faculty and… » Read more

“A good number of the recent cases are examples of where prosecutors stretched the law,” says Ellen Podgor, a white-collar crime research professor at Stetson University College of Law.

By Sean IllingVoxNov. 15, 2019 Excerpt Trump has a habit of blasting critics on Twitter. But some observers — including some loyal to the president — said this tweet was, at best, a very bad idea. But did this tweet really cross a legal line into witness tampering? I put this question to seven legal experts. Their responses, edited for clarity and length, are below.… » Read more

Law Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy’s tweet was quoted on a Nov. 14, 2019, Huffington Post article called, “Rudy Giuliani’s Op-Ed Defense Of Donald Trump Backfires Spectacularly.” That’s all ya got? A word count is NOT a good defense to a crime. ?⚖️ https://t.co/CJf7FebjKJ— Ciara Torres-Spelliscy (@ProfCiara) November 13, 2019… » Read more

Law Professor Rebecca C. Morgan wrote the following blogs for the Elder Law Prof Blog: Nov. 10: The Wrong Goodbye Nov. 11: Elder Justice Toolkit Released Nov. 12: More Student Views on Recent Events Nov. 13: Older Americans Act Reauthorization Passes House Nov. 15: Two Recent Articles About Dementia… » Read more

By Kirsten K. DavisAppellate Advocacy BlogNov. 14, 2019 Excerpt Professor Kirsten K. Davis In Formal Ethics Opinion No. 480, issued in the Spring of 2018, the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility considered for the first time how a blogging lawyer must treat the confidentiality of client information… …I’m going to make the case that writing public commentary–whether digital or not–is… » Read more