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

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 students and alumni celebrated student scholarship recipients with a softball game in Hoyt Field in Gulfport on Feb. 11. A reception followed the game on Saturday night, honoring student scholarship recipients Marissa Marchena and Miles Hickman who received the Nenezian-Jones-Cooley Scholarship. A committee established the scholarship in honor of the scholarship’s namesakes Rich Nenezian J.D. ’84, Jim Jones J.D. ’84,… » Read more

What are the skills employers look for when hiring law school graduates? What skills would you improve? Social scientist and education expert Dr. Terrell L. Strayhorn asked a roomful of approximately 100 first and second-year law students on Stetson’s Gulfport campus to develop some ideas to help prepare for their future careers. Dr. Strayhorn’s keynote address at Stetson’s daylong Intention and Impact Summit on Jan.… » Read more

“The flag flew over the tower when I was here,” Oliver “Buzz” Baudoin remarked as he leafed through yearbooks and photographs from the Florida Military Academy on display in Stetson law school’s Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library archives on a beautiful Wednesday afternoon. “It was my job to take that flag up and down.” Baudoin, who graduated from the Florida Military Academy in 1947… » Read more

Ten students at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, participated in a class designed to assist the 2014 Clemency Project. One of the 1300 clemency grants out of a total of 16,000 petitions was prepared by Stetson Law students in the class. “The very fact that you, as a student, may be one of the last remaining hopes for an individual to have… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s spring semester Foreman Biodiversity Lecture series kicked off on the Gulfport campus on Jan. 24 with a lecture by Jaclyn Lopez, Florida director of the Center for Biological Diversity. Close to 100 people attended Lopez’ talk on “Florida’s Frightening Phosphate Problem” in the Great Hall. Lopez described how Florida is home to the world’s largest phosphate mine, and the hazardous… » Read more

On Jan. 13 and Jan. 20, Stetson’s American Bar Association chapter along with United Way and IRS volunteers trained more than 100 Stetson Law students in preparation for this year’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program. The VITA program provides free assistance to low-income, elderly, disabled and other individuals to provide free assistance in preparing tax returns. Trained Stetson Law students will be volunteering at various… » Read more

Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Tammy Briant J.D. ’06 received the Hillsborough County Bar Association Outstanding Young Lawyer Award at the Hillsborough Bar Diversity Luncheon on Jan. 11. Briant served actively on the board of the Hillsborough Bar Young Lawyers Division for several years. During her time on the YLD board, she assisted with the development and the production of “Before the Law Was Equal,”… » Read more