Can international corporations help stabilize society? LexisNexis Executive Vice President and General Counsel Ian McDougall spoke at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport on Aug. 31. McDougall presented on the role big business should play in stabilizing society. Ian McDougall joined LexisNexis in 2004 as vice president and legal director for LexisNexis International. He sits on the United Nations Rule of Law Steering Committee… » Read more

Campus update: Sept. 2, 2016, 6:35 p.m. Dear campus community:  Stetson University College of Law will reopen on Saturday, Sept. 3, at 8 a.m. The Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library will reopen at 8 a.m. and all classes, clinics, externships, and events will take place as scheduled at both the Gulfport and Tampa campuses. The worst of the rain and wind associated with Hurricane… » Read more

Starting in the fall semester, professors Kristen Adams and Ann Piccard will join Professor Judith Scully to lead the Social Justice Advocacy Concentration program at Stetson University. Together, these three professors will also lead Stetson’s pro bono efforts. Professor Judith Scully launched Stetson’s Social Justice Advocacy program in 2012 and invited Professor Robert Bickel to serve as co-coordinator. Professor Bickel is retiring this fall. The… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s Foreman Biodiversity Lecture series returns to campus starting in September. All lectures are complimentary and open to the public on Stetson Law’s Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S. Upcoming lectures include: Sept. 1, 12 p.m., Great Hall, Robert Williams, chief deputy general counsel of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Sept. 29, 12 p.m., Great Hall, Dr. Naomi Rose, marine… » Read more

Attorneys’ Title Fund Professor of Law Darryl C. Wilson has been named associate dean for faculty and strategic initiatives at Stetson University College of Law. Associate Dean Wilson is the director of the Intellectual Property Law Internship Program, the American-Caribbean Law Initiative, and co-director of the Institute for Caribbean Law and Policy at Stetson. Wilson has taught around the world in the Caribbean, Estonia, the… » Read more

“Corporate citizens are strange bedfellows to have in a democracy,” Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy writes in the June 14 American Constitution Society Blog. Professor Torres-Spelliscy, author of the new book, Corporate Citizen? An Argument for the Separation of Corporation and State, asserts that throughout U.S. history, corporations have sought to expand their constitutional rights, and American courts have obliged. Torres-Spelliscy posits that corporations have steadily gained… » Read more

Future law students can learn more about the part-time law program at Stetson University College of Law during an open house on Thursday, Aug. 25, 6-7:30 p.m., at the Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S. By taking evening classes at Stetson’s Tampa Law Center and the Gulfport campus, busy people with daytime commitments can earn a law degree in as little as four years from… » Read more

When Deleso A. Alford visited Stetson law school’s Gulfport campus briefly this summer, she brought with her an important goal: collaboration. The Florida A&M University law professor’s research and teaching focuses on building a framework for cultural competence through the lens of personal narratives that shapes the way we see and understand each other. During her short time as a visiting scholar at Stetson, Professor… » Read more

Professor of Law Louis Virelli tackles the highly controversial topic of judicial recusal and the separation of powers that is the cornerstone of American democracy in his new book Disqualifying the High Court. Read more at the University Press of Kansas. “Recusal has emerged as an issue in the presidential campaign, in the form of Republican candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of Judge Gonzalo Curiel for… » Read more

The Center for Excellence in Elder Law recently completed a four-month training program with the Florida Department of Children and Families Suncoast Regions adult protective service investigators on June 1-2 at the Tampa Law Center. Approximately 70 adult protective service investigators from Hillsborough, Pasco, Pinellas, Sarasota, Manatee, DeSoto, Lee, Glades, Collier, Charlotte, and Hendry Counties completed the training. Training program attendees had an opportunity to… » Read more

10:25 a.m., 6/7/16 update: The College of Law will open today (Tuesday, June 7) at noon. Scheduled classes and activities beginning at noon or later will proceed as scheduled. The Library will also open at noon. For those students participating in external clinics or externships, please consult with your supervisor and Professor Batt for additional guidance. In the event that weather conditions create individual difficulties… » Read more

When Dr. Kirsten Davis, director of Stetson’s Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication, designed and implemented a new program two years ago, she knew she wanted to provide students with more opportunities to improve their communication skills and make them better lawyers. Stetson’s legal writing program, under Davis’s direction, is consistently ranked among the nation’s best law school programs. Davis created a new extracurricular… » Read more