“We have to be vigilant to make sure the miscarriages of justice that have been all too prevalent over the last 40 years must end,” New York Law School Professor Emeritus Michael Perlin told an audience of Stetson law school students and faculty gathered on March 23 on the Gulfport campus to hear him talk. Professor Perlin spoke on “Power and Greed and the Corruptible… » Read more

Stetson’s Gulfport campus hosted a series of events during diversity week, Feb. 29-March 4, to raise awareness about discrimination. An evening film and discussion on Feb. 25, “Cracking the Codes: The System of Racial Inequality,” hosted by the Social Justice Advocacy Concentration at Stetson, kicked off the series. Events for faculty, staff and students included a program on poverty, homelessness and social justice on Feb.… » Read more

“Florida is a very special place for sea turtles and Floridians play an important role as stewards,” Dr. Anne Meylan, senior research scientist with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, told students, faculty, and members of the public gathered on March 1 on Stetson law school’s Gulfport campus to hear her talk. Dr. Meylan presented “Florida’s Global Importance as a Nesting Site for Sea… » Read more

Tampa civil rights movement leader Clarence Fort provided the keynote address at the Black History Month Gala on Feb. 19 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. The program on “Ascending to New Heights: From Leadership to Legacy” also recognized influential faculty members. Fort’s grandson, Kaarl E. Brandon, is a second-year law student at Stetson. He introduced Clarence Fort. “It’s imperative to hear the… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law hosted a public town hall forum on Feb. 25 with Gulfport’s mayoral candidates to discuss environmental issues in the city. Stetson’s Environmental Law Society, Stetson’s Maritime Law Society and Long’s Environmental Advocacy class co-sponsored the event. Gulfport mayoral candidates Barbara Banno and Gulfport Mayor Sam Henderson presented, followed by a Q&A with moderator and Stetson Law professor Lance Long. Student… » Read more

The son of civil rights era activist Robert F. Williams, the Rev. John C. Williams, spoke with Stetson law students on the Gulfport campus on Feb. 23. After sharing a first-hand account of what the struggle for basic human rights was like for African-Americans during the American civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Rev. Williams described how the Second Amendment can be used… » Read more

Darnesha Carter knew that she wanted to be an advocate while she was still a high school student in Riverview, Florida. Once she had decided that law school was her goal, Darnesha took all of the law school prep courses available at Riverview High School. When it came time to choose a law school, Darnesha said that Stetson stood apart. The friendly campus, a full… » Read more

Consultants from Elon University in North Carolina traveled to Stetson University College of Law on Feb. 8-9 to present on LGBTQIA inclusion in the campus community. Matthew Antonia Bosch and Brooke Barnett, Ph.D., facilitated four events including a faculty workshop, student workshop, break-out session with the law school deans, and a break-out session for LGBTQIA student leaders. Bosch is the director of the Gender &… » Read more

Student Starcee Brown, a member of the Stetson law school trial team and single parent to her two-year-old son, recently received the Bar Study Scholarship from the Malcolm Cunningham, Sr. Bar Association. The bar association awards scholarships to well-deserving third-year African American students preparing to sit for the Florida Bar exam. Brown received the scholarship during the annual William M. Holland Scholarship luncheon on Feb.… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law Center for Excellence in Elder Law co-director and professor Rebecca Morgan received an inaugural award from the board of directors of the National Elder Law Foundation for her significant and continuing contributions to the field of elder law. Amos Goodall LL.M. in Elder Law ’09 presented the National Elder Law Foundation Award for Excellence in Elder Law to Professor Morgan… » Read more

On Feb. 2, the Food Law Society and the Family Law Society held a free evening screening on Stetson’s Gulfport campus of Occupy the Farm, a documentary film that tells the story of a community’s fight to save the last sustainable farmland in the urban East Bay area near Oakland, California. “The purpose of the event was to bring awareness to the fact that we… » Read more

The Florida Bar YLD Law Student Division and Stetson University College of Law are co-sponsoring Raising the Bar: Florida’s Legal Community Service Day, on Feb. 20 in Classroom D on Stetson’s Gulfport campus. The initiative, part of a statewide service day led by the legal community, will benefit Southeastern Guide Dogs. WHO: Members of the legal community including lawyers, law students, law firms, judges and… » Read more