The Akerman Senterfitt law firm has honored two Stetson University College of Law students with the new Corporate Law Award.

Professor Fitzgerald has been selected as a MacCormick Fellow at the University of Edinburgh School of Law for the spring 2011 term. This appointment, along with other appointments he has received at Cambridge University, will provide him with formal affiliations and a base for his work during the coming academic year both in England and Scotland. The MacCormick Fellowship program was created in 2008 as one of Edinburgh’s premier fellowship programs to honor Professor Sir Neil MacCormick, Professor Emeritus at Edinburgh Law School, and formerly the Regius Professor of Public Law and the Law of Nature and Nations at the University of Edinburgh.

On April 21, Professor Nagle spoke on human trafficking at the Social Justice Dinner at Eckerd College. The event involved several human rights and government social services organizations. Professor Nagle spoke about the practice of trafficking in human organs and tissue. On April 26, the Professor Nagle received an offer to publish “Terrorism and Universal Jurisdiction: Opening a Pandora’s Box?” in the Georgia State University Law Review. This week, she attended the national conference on human trafficking task forces, hosted by the DOJ in Washington, DC. This was an invitation-only conference that she attended as a member of the Florida Governor's Task Force on Human Trafficking. AG Eric Holder and Homeland Security Director Donna Shalala were speakers. She also attended the Florida Governor's Task Force meeting, held at SPC Allstate Campus, to work on various agendas. Florida AG Bill McCollum attended as well as a couple of State Senators. She then participated in a board meeting with the Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking.

Two Stetson University College of Law professors are surveying thousands of people in an attempt to help pinpoint the leading causes of bankruptcy among older Americans.

This spring, a dozen students from Professor Dorothea Beane’s law class addressed 278 eighth-graders at middle school assemblies designed to get students thinking about the value of protecting human rights.

Martha Collins of the Collins Law Group in Tampa, Fla., addressed a crowd of Stetson Law students gathered in the Mann Lounge on the Gulfport campus on Earth Day, April 22, to hear her speak about the impact of beach erosion issues in Florida.

Christian Searcy has recently been inducted as president of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

U.S. News & World Report has again ranked Stetson Law first in the nation for its trial advocacy program.