Professor Robert Bickel recently presented “Preparing for Leadership: Lessons of History in Understanding Diversity” at the Tampa Bay Diversity Council Meeting in Tampa.
Peter Fitzgerald
Professor Fitzgerald recently gave a talk on “Regulating Behavior for Wildlife Offenses with Civil Sanctions” at the (British) Society of Legal Scholars (http://www.legalscholars.ac.uk/) annual meeting in Bristol, England, as part of the Law Commission delegation to the conference.
Catherine Cameron
Professor Cameron recently spoke at a forum at St. Petersburg College called “The Ethical Implications of Free Speech in the World if Social Media.”
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy addressed the Honorable James R. Browning Symposium on Election Law on September 28, 2012 at the University of Montana Law School. She spoke about ways to address the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision through corporate law and federal rule making at the SEC, FEC and FCC.
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
Professor Ciara Torres-Spelliscy was recently named a “Top Wonk” on election law matters by the Agenda Project. She is joined by other law professors from Harvard, Yale, NYU and Columbia. http://www.topwonks.org/experts/ciara-torres-spelliscy/
Catherine Cameron
Professor Catherine Cameron’s article entitled Reinvigorating U.S. Copyright Law with Attribution: How Courts Can Help Define the Fair Use Exception by Considering the Economic Aspects of Attribution has been accepted for publication in the Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law.
Luz Nagle
Professor Nagle’s article, Better a Jail Cell in the United States: Using Extradition to Avoid Criminal Accountability in Colombia, will be published in the forthcoming issue of the International Enforcement Law Reporter.
Peter Lake
Professor Lake was recently invited to join the Editorial Board of the Journal of College and University Law, sponsored by NACUA and currently housed at Notre Dame. Professor Lake also recently concluded a contract with Foundation Press to co-author the second edition of Judy Areen’s Higher Education and the Law, Cases and Materials.
Lance Long
Professor Lance Long gave a presentation entitled “Are Bad Writers Bad Lawyers?” at the Western Regional Legal Writing Conference at the University of Oregon on August 10, 2012. Professor Long’s presentation highlighted his latest research suggesting that lawyers who commit careless errors (poor grammar, typos, and other syntactic errors) in legal briefs and memoranda submitted to a court are more than twice as likely to be sanctioned by a bar for ethical misconduct. Professor Long’s research does not suggest a causal relationship, but hypothesizes that carelessness in writing may be indicative of carelessness in other areas of legal practice.
Peter Fitzgerald
Professor Fitzgerald recently joined the Law Commission of England and Wales as a visiting academic advisor on their wildlife law reform project. The Commission’s public consultation officially opened August 14th, and that stage of the project concludes on November 30th, with its formal report to the Parliament and the British Department of the Environment and Rural Affairs targeted for early next year. This is the first time an American law professor has served in this capacity at Britain’s principal law reform agency.
Kirsten Davis, Brooke Bowman, Lance Long & Stephanie Vaughan
The President of the Legal Writing Institute has made the following committee appointments for the 2012-14 term:
Brooke Bowman, Moot Court Committee
Kirsten Davis, Co-Chair, Scholarship Development and Outreach Committee
Lance Long, Co-Chair, Prelaw Committee
Stephanie Vaughan, Global Skills Committee
Brooke Bowman
Professor Bowman presented a draft of one of her judicial footnote articles at the ALWD Scholars’ Workshop on Friday, August 10, at the Second Annual Western Regional Legal Writing Conference, hosted by the University of Oregon Law School.