Candace Zierdt, Marco Jimenez, Brad Areheart, and Kristen Adams
Professors Zierdt, Jimenez, Areheart, and Adams served as moderators on panels at the Sixth Annual International Conference on Contracts
Bob Batey
Professor Batey's artice, "As Used in the Federal Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentencing Statutes, Is 'Cocaine Base' Limited to Crack?" appears in the Feb. 21, 2011 issue of Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases.
Luz Nagle
Professor Nagle's article, "Youth Gangs and Transnational Organized Crime in Europe," has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue (early March) of the International Enforcement Law Reporter.
Rebecca Trammell
Professor Trammell will be presenting a CLE seminar on May 10 titled "Find It Free and Fast on the Net: Strategies for Legal Research on the Web."
Joe Morrissey
Professor Morrissey spoke last week at the DAR's annual constitutional law luncheon. He also spoke at Stetson's 32nd Annual National Conference on Law & Higher Education. His topics were "Continuing Challenges in International Studies" and "Rapidly Evolving Issues in GLBT Litigation."
Peter Lake
Peter Lake served as Chair of the 32nd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education. At the conference, he spoke "New Challenges to Academic Freedom" and "Looking into the Crystal Ball: Future Trends and Prognostications" panels.
Darby Dickerson
At the 32nd Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education, Dean Dickerson presented "Medical Marijuana on Campus" with Dr. Thomas Workman of the Baylor Medical Center. The presentation was featured in "The Chronicle of Higher Education."
Bill Kaplin
Professor Kaplin presented "Getting Up to Speed on Higher Education Law’s Essentials with the Experts: Basic Principles and Practices for Administrators and Attorneys" and "The Roberts Court and Free Speech on Campus: Examining CLS, West Borough, Citizens United, and More."
New Professorship
Stetson Law has named Ellen S. Podgor the inaugural Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor.
Kirsten Davis
Professor Davis has been invited to speak at the Rocky Mountain Regional Legal Writing Conference, in Las Vegas, Nevada, in March 2011; her program is What? Take a Gamble on a Legal Research and Writing Exam?: Yes, You Can Bet on It! She has also been invited to speak at the Association of Legal Writing Directors Biennial Conference, in Sacramento, CA, in June 2011 as part of a roundtable titled Legal Writing “Faculty”: What Does That Mean In A Legal Writing "Program"? She will also speak on You Are Already Writing An Article: A Workshop.
A Shadow of Doubt: Protecting the Innocent
News article: A Shadow of Doubt: Protecting the Innocent
Panel Talk: Chocolate Industry Child Labor
On Feb. 8, students, faculty and experts discussed the issue of child labor in the international cocoa industry.