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Stetson Law student team wins vis arbitration moot pre-competition in Orlando

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Gulfport, Fla. – A student team from Stetson University College of Law won the Second Annual Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Pre-competition on March 18 in Orlando.

Stetson’s team competed against three other teams from Florida, winning each round of the pre-competition. Stetson Law student Kathryn Christian also won the award for best oralist.

Students Garett Raines and Marina Braginskaya won the first round against Nova Southeastern University. Kathryn Christian and Jared Dolan then argued and won the round against the University of Miami and Hugh Higgins and Adam Williams beat the University of Florida team in the final round.

“It could not have gone better,” said Professor Joe Morrissey, who coached the winning team with Professor Stephanie Vaughan and student coach Ryan Jones. “All of our students participated in earning this victory and argued better than I’ve ever seen them argue. We hope that our preparation here in Florida will lead all of the Florida teams to success in the international competition in Vienna, where this year more than 150 law school teams will compete from over 45 countries.”

Arbitrators from many of the top law firms in Florida judged and helped underwrite expenses. The competition was organized and hosted by the Vis Competition Subcommittee of the International Litigation and Arbitration Committee of the International Law Section of The Florida Bar.

Stetson’s moot court team also took home an award for the best memorial at the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition last month.

Last year in March, Stetson Law became the first American law school since 1996 to win the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competition, held in Vienna, Austria. Teams from 150 law schools in 47 countries competed.

Stetson Law Professor Royal Gardner selected as 2006 National Wetlands Awards winner

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Gulfport, Fla. – The Environmental Law Institute in Washington D.C. has selected Professor Royal Gardner as one of six winners of the 2006 National Wetlands Awards.

Winners of this award, selected from around the country for their dedication to conservation and protecting natural resources, will be honored at a ceremony in Washington D.C. on May 10.

Professor Gardner is head of the Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy at Stetson, which serves as an interdisciplinary focal point for education, research, and service activities related to global, regional, and local biodiversity issues. He was also appointed to the Scientific and Technical Review Panel of the Ramsar Convention as North America’s regional representative.

Gardner writes extensively on wetland mitigation and restoration policies. His work as a member of the National Research Council’s Committee on Mitigating Wetland Losses contributed to a re-examination of federal wetland mitigation policies. Professor Gardner, together with Stetson colleague Professor Paul Boudreaux, was named to the board of managing editors for the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy.

In 1996, Professor Gardner co-founded Stetson’s Annual International Environmental Moot Court Competition, designed to increase international attention on environmental issues, including wetland protection. More than 60 student litigators from around the globe competed for a chance to make it to Stetson’s international finals. The 2005 winning team was from Kolkata, India.

The 2006 National Wetlands Awards are co-sponsored by the Environmental Law Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA Forest Service, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Federal Highway Administration and NOAA Fisheries.

Stetson Law Review publishes book on Terri Schiavo

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Gulfport, Fla. – The Stetson Law Review is proud to announce the publication of its latest issue, Vol. 35, No. 1, entitled “Reflections on and Implications of Schiavo.” In light of this particular issue’s importance, the Stetson Law Review will make the book available to the public for the first time in its publication history.

“In the years leading up to her death, Terri Schiavo’s situation was discussed and debated at every level of the federal and Florida State governments,” said Stetson Professors Rebecca Morgan and Michael Allen.

This issue of the Law Review provides insights into the Terri Schiavo case from legal practitioners directly involved in the case and prominent scholars in the areas of elder law and constitutional law.

“It is clear that the issues raised by the Terri Schiavo case are going to continue to shape our legal system for years to come,” said Stetson Law Vice President and Dean Darby Dickerson. “It’s an issue of critical importance.”

Members of the public may purchase the book in person at the Stetson University College of Law bookstore, or may order a book through a secure Web page at http://justice.law.stetson.edu/bookstore/Schiavo/. The book is being sold at cost.

UPDATE: Please click here to access this volume online at no cost.

Stetson’s trial team wins the regional ATLA

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law’s trial team won the regional Association of Trial Lawyers Association competition in Atlanta this month.

The student trial team of Cameron Croft, Brandon Held, Dennis McCarthy and Susan Gregory defeated a team from Wake Forest in the final round of competitions. Sixteen teams from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina competed.

“The Stetson team performed outstandingly well in this regional competition,” said Professor Lee Coppock, who directs the trial team program at Stetson. “I have no doubt that they will prove a force to be reckoned with at the national level as well.”

The Stetson team travels to Miami at the end of March for the national ATLA competition.

In January, a team of Stetson students won the Chester Bedell Memorial Trial Competition in Miami. It was Stetson’s 16th win in the history of the competition. Stetson’s student team of Arturo Rios, Angie Torrents, Senovia Lance and Ruel Smith defeated Florida State University’s team in the final round.

Stetson has earned a national reputation for excellence in trial advocacy, ranking first in the specialty by the 2006 edition of the U.S. News & World Report of best graduate schools.

Stetson’s moot court team takes home an award for best memorial

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law’s moot court team recently took home an award for the Best Memorial at the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition last month.

The student moot court team of Sam Cooley, Amanda Jassem, Alicia Koepke and Ezequiel Lugo advanced to finals in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, Southeastern Region. Jessup is the largest competition of its kind in the world. A team from Florida Coastal won the regional competition and will advance to the finals in April.

“This is the third year in a row that Stetson’s team took home a first place memorial award in this competition,” said Professor Stephanie Vaughan, who advises the moot court at Stetson. “The school is extremely proud.”

Student Alicia Koepke won the First Runner-Up Individual Oralist Award, one of the highest individual awards anyone can receive in a moot court competition. Stetson Professor Royal Gardner coached the team.

In Minneapolis in March, Stetson’s Civil Rights Moot Court Team of Laurie Sharpe and James McTyier advanced to the final round in the McGhee National Civil Rights Moot Court Competition, with 36 teams competing. Stetson Professor Ann Piccard and student Lavern Wilson helped prepare the team.

Last year in March, Stetson Law became the first American law school since 1996 to win the Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot competition, held in Vienna, Austria. Teams from 150 law schools in 47 countries competed.

New Orleans District Attorney heads Stetson Law panel on Katrina’s impact on justice system

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Gulfport, Fla. – Hurricane Katrina left prisoners on the loose, legal records in disarray and the region’s justice system mired in confusion. The national impact of these challenges and lessons learned are the focus of presentations by key Louisiana legal experts at the Tampa Law Center, 1700 N. Tampa St., on April 7 at 6 p.m.

Stetson Law Professor Dorothea Beane will host the program.

“Katrina was an eye-opener for the legal community. Legal professionals displaced by Katrina have returned to find that their clients have been displaced and legal records such as property ownership documents have been destroyed. Prisoners evacuated in the storm have disappeared,” Professor Beane said. “What can this disaster teach us and how might Florida prepare for a disaster of this caliber?”

Speakers include:

Eddie Jordan, District Attorney for Orleans Parish and former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana
Phyllis E. Mann, a law professor and defense attorney from Louisiana who has presented papers on Katrina’s impact on the criminal justice system and criminal defense for the indigent in Louisiana
Bobby Marzine Harges, professor of law at Loyola, and former civil and construction litigator
Ron Austin, criminal defense and personal injury attorney

The American Bar Association-Law Student Division and Stetson’s Black Law Student Association are co-sponsoring this event.

Please call 813-228-0226 to register for this important event.
Or, register online at http://justice.law.stetson.edu/RSVP/.

Editor’s Note: Presenters will be available for interviews before the program between
5:15 p.m.-5:45 p.m.

Stetson’s National Clearinghouse presents “Terrorists, Hurricanes and Viruses: What’s Next?”

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Gulfport, Fla. – The National Clearinghouse for Science Technology and the Law at Stetson University College of Law will host “Terrorists, Hurricanes and Viruses: What’s Next?” in the Great Hall at the Gulfport campus at 1401 61st St. S. at noon on March 13.

Dr. James Young will present the talk. Young, a physician and coroner and special advisor to the deputy minister of public safety and emergency preparedness for the government of Canada, has worked in disaster preparedness at both the national and international levels.

Young co-managed the SARS crisis in Ontario and helped identify the victims of the tsunami disaster, Bali nightclub bombing, 9/11 and Swiss Air. He also supervised the autopsies of four Canadian soldiers killed by American friendly fire in Afghanistan.

“The Clearinghouse has made tremendous strides in its efforts to encourage the scientific, technological and legal communities to share resources in the interest of justice,” said Carol Henderson, Clearinghouse director.

Under Henderson’s direction, Stetson’s National Clearinghouse, a program of the National Institute of Justice, was formed in 2003 to advance the use of science and technology in the law.

The Clearinghouse provides a comprehensive online database of legal and scientific research and educates lawyers, judges and law enforcement personnel about new developments in forensic technology and forensic evidence handling in the courts.

For more information on additional National Clearinghouse programs, please call
(727) 562-7316 or visit them on the Web at http://www.ncstl.org.

Stetson Law presents free seminars in Ocala to help protect elder consumers from scams and fraud

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law will warn elderly citizens about the dangers of scams and fraud at free consumer protection presentations in Ocala in March.

Stetson Law Professor Nick Cox will speak about identity theft March 29-30 at two sessions: 10 a.m.- 12 p.m. and 2 p.m.-4 p.m., at the Ocala Hilton, 3600 SW 36th Ave.

With experience in both the Office of the Florida Attorney General and the State Attorney’s Office, Cox has worked closely with state and federal agencies to educate citizens and law enforcement personnel on consumer fraud issues.

“Identity theft has a devastating impact on its victims,” said Rebecca Morgan, director of Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Elder Law. “Too often seniors are targeted as victims of identity theft. It is critical for everyone to learn more about identity theft and how to protect their identities.”

RSVP by calling toll free 1-800-831-8923.

The seminars are part of Stetson’s elder consumer protection initiatives.

Stetson University College of Law welcomes new library director

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Gulfport, Fla. – Rebecca S. Trammell has joined Stetson University College of Law as its new law library director. She replaces Dr. Madison Mosley who passed away last year.

Trammell joins Stetson from the University of Kentucky College of Law where she served as law library director and assistant professor of law. During her four years at Kentucky, Trammell taught legal research, advanced legal research and law librarianship. She was a member of the University of Kentucky Libraries Executive Committee and chaired the Law Faculty Library Committee.

Professor Trammell also served as associate dean for information services and associate professor of law at Barry University School of Law, where she taught legal research, advanced legal research, gender and the law and American legal history. Prior to Barry, Trammell was associate law library director at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and a member of the law library faculty at Northern Illinois University.

Trammell received her masters in library science from Dominican University in 1979 and her J.D. from the University of Denver in 1983. She chairs the American Association of Law Libraries Standing Committee on Law Library Service to Institutionalized Persons and is active in the Southeastern Association of American Law Libraries. She researches in the areas of Internet legal research, classroom technology and prison and jail law libraries.

Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy editor speaks at Stetson Law March 2

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Gulfport, Fla. – Dr. William C.G. Burns, editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, will discuss “The International Whaling Commission and Climate Change: Leviathan or Laggard?” at 12:15 p.m. and again at 5 p.m. on March 2 in Classroom A at the Stetson University College of Law Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S.

Stetson University College of Law will begin hosting the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy during the fall semester 2006.

“Stetson students will have an opportunity to earn academic credit by working as student editors on this peer-reviewed journal,” said Stetson Law Professor Royal Gardner.

Gardner directs Stetson’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy, which serves as an interdisciplinary focal point for education, research, and service activities related to global, regional, and local biodiversity issues.
The Institute is an environmental law resource that sponsors guest lecturers, conferences, and competitions, as well as promoting biodiversity-related academic programs and service opportunities.

To learn more about the Institute and upcoming programs, please visit Stetson on the Web at http://www.law.stetson.edu/international/biodiversity/

To learn more about the Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy, visit http://www.jiwlp.com/

Florida Supreme Court honors Stetson’s Hispanic Student Bar Association on Feb. 16(2)

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law’s Hispanic Student Bar Association will be honored for its outstanding pro bono work on Feb. 16 at the Supreme Court of Florida at 500 S. Duval St. in Tallahassee.

Florida Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Pariente and Florida Bar President Alan Bookman will present Stetson’s H.B.A. with the 2006 Chief Justice’s Voluntary Bar Commendation Award during a special ceremony which begins at 3:30 p.m. in the courtroom of the Supreme Court building.

Stetson was the first law school in Florida and one of the first law schools in the country to require public service by students and faculty. As part of their graduation requirement, all Stetson students are required to complete at least 20 hours of pro bono.

This year’s Florida Supreme Court ceremony honors recipients of the 2006 Tobias Simon Pro Bono Service Award, Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award, Distinguished Judicial Service Award, Voluntary Bar Award, Law Firm Commendation and Young Lawyers Division Pro Bono Award.

The awards ceremony will be broadcast live on the Florida Channel and on the Web at http://wfsu.org/gavel2gavel/.

Stetson students Angie Torrents and Vanessa De Rosa, who will be seated in the second row at the ceremony with members of the Chief Justice’s Advisory Committee, will accept the award for Stetson’s H.B.A. The Chief Justice’s Advisory Committee selected this year’s recipients.

The awards are sponsored by the Florida Supreme Court and The Florida Bar.

For more information about Stetson’s outstanding pro bono program, please visit http://www.law.stetson.edu/tmpl/about/internal-1.aspx?id=9713 .

Stetson’s Tax Moot Court Team wins national competition Feb. 11

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Gulfport, Fla. – Stetson University College of Law’s Tax Moot Court Team won the National Tax Moot Court Competition Feb. 11 at the Tradewinds Sandpiper Hotel on St. Pete Beach.

Stetson students beat a team from Louisiana State University, last year’s champions, in the final round of competitions. Fifteen teams from around the country competed. Judges from the United States Tax Court judged the final round.

“The students worked hard to prepare for this victory,” said Professor Stephanie Vaughan, the Moot Court Team adviser and director of the Tampa Law Center. “They deserve this national win.”

Stetson’s Moot Court team of Kathryn Everlove-Stone, Daniel Gomez and Andrea Vafides remained undefeated through three days of competition. This is the first time these students have competed together as the Tax Moot Court Team.

Professor Jennifer Murphy coached the winning team, assisted by Adjunct Professor Craig Behrenfeld. This is Professor Murphy’s first competition as coach.

The competition is sponsored by the Tax Section of the Florida Bar. The mission of the Tax Section of The Florida Bar is to serve and support its members and others by providing education, leadership and networking opportunities and promoting professionalism.