Part-time Stetson law student Daniel Kuzma carves out extra time to inspire fellow students to volunteer to help raise money for charity. The busy father of two started his first year in the part-time law program this year at Stetson, and organized a 5k fundraiser for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in March that raised close to $6,000. A total of 150 people participated in… » Read more

The Student Animal Legal Defense Fund sponsored a panel on Careers in Animal Law on March 31. Panelists the discussed their experience, careers, and advice for students who wish to use their law degree to help animals. Center for Biological Diversity attorney Elise Bennett J.D. ’13, Lowry Park Zoo in-house counsel Debbie Brown J.D. ’87, Animal Legal Defense Fund executive director Stephen Wells, and animal… » Read more

Syracuse University Professor of Law Emeritus Travis H.D. Lewin will be honored with the Stetson University College of Law Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching Advocacy in May. The award will be presented during Stetson’s Educating Advocates Teaching Advocacy Skills Conference May 22-24 in Gulfport, Florida. Professor Lewin led trial competition teams for several years as advisor and coach, and serves as a judge… » Read more

A team of students from the Gujarat National Law University in Gandhinagar, India, won the International Environmental Moot Court Competition, now in its 21st year, on April 1 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida. For more than 20 years, students from around the world have competed in Stetson’s IEMCC for a chance to prove themselves as the best environmental advocates on the… » Read more

On March 23, Stetson University College of Law Dean Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz joined more than 160 other deans from public and private law schools across the country in signing a letter in support of continuing funding for the Legal Services Corporation. “What brings us together today is a shared conviction that the loss of LSC funds would devastate efforts to provide access to essential legal… » Read more

By Brielle Tucker The Child Advocates of Stetson Law, a newly formed student organization launched by Taylor Greenberg, drew a crowd of close to 200 to the Gulfport campus for the screening of Foster Shock on March 29. The documentary produced and directed by Mari Frankel highlights the problems with Florida’s privatized child welfare system. After the screening, a panel of former foster youth talked… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s Career Development Office hosted professionals who lead summer associate recruiting from three large law firms on March 23 who volunteered their time to talk to first year Stetson law students. The panelists,  Kaye Daugherty of Rumberger Kirk & Caldwell, Eric Page J.D. ’04 of Shutts & Bowen LLP, and Linda Vandercook of Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick LLP,  joined Stetson Law… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law hosted a daylong Stetson Law Review Symposium, “Can Corporations Be Good Citizens? How Corporate Law, Litigation, Lobbying and Money in Politics Intersect,” on March 24 in Gulfport, Florida. The keynote was presented by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Cohen, who founded the non-profit Stamp Stampede to build a movement to get big money out of politics, made… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law hosted a public lecture on the “Role of Courts in Promoting Biodiversity” on March 30 in the Great Hall at Stetson law school. Judge Anthony Lucky of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea presented the complimentary Foreman Biodiversity Lecture, held in conjunction with the International Finals of Stetson’s International Environmental Moot Court Competition, now in its 21st… » Read more

Stetson law school launched its first annual Women’s Week celebration during the week of March 13, with a pro bono event, performance/fundraiser, panel with area leaders on the Gulfport campus, and a career networking event in downtown St. Petersburg. The celebration kicked off with a pro bono event on March 13 to benefit Alpha House, a local shelter for homeless pregnant women and mothers. Students… » Read more

Internationally known human rights activist John Prendergast presented on “Stopping Genocide by Stopping the War Profiteers” on March 16 in the Great Hall on Stetson law school’s Gulfport campus. Prendergast, author of Not on Our Watch, co-author with Michael Mattocks of Unlikely Brothers, and founder of the Enough Project, discussed the genocide which began in Darfur, Western Sudan, in 2003, that continues today. The program… » Read more

By Brielle Tucker Stetson University College of Law celebrated Diversity Week in honor of the American Bar Association’s Diversity Day with a series of events designed to provoke discussions about how to improve diversity and inclusion on the law school campus, as well as how to address implicit bias in the legal profession. At Stetson, organizations partnered to host interactive discussions, questions of the day,… » Read more