Law Professor Ellen Podgor, an expert in white collar crime For her 25 years of service to its mission of clarifying, simplifying, and modernizing common law, the American Law Institute has given prestigious Life Member status to Stetson Law Professor Ellen Podgor. Podgor, a nationally recognized criminal law scholar whose award-winning work focuses on white collar crime, was nominated to ALI and elected to the… » Read more

Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency could determine the extent of Clean Water Act protections across the U.S. With help from faculty, Stetson Law students contributed significantly to an amici brief filed by Professor Royal Gardner, director of the college’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy filed on behalf of twelve scientific organizations in a case that could prove critical in the fate of the Clean… » Read more

The courthouse in the author’s hometown of Berdyansk, Ukraine. The facility is currently closed, as the city is under Russian occupation. Dmitriy Kamensky first came to Stetson Law as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in 2015 interested in studying white collar crime. The Ukraine native ultimately published an article in the Stetson Law Review in 2016 and another in the Mississippi College Law Journal. He returned… » Read more

Left to right: Justice Ricky Polston, Justice Alan Lawson, Chief Justice Charles T. Canady, Tyler Brown, Hannah Klonowski, Justice John D. Couriel, Justice Jamie R. Grosshans, Justice Carlos G. Muñiz, and Justice Jorge Labargo. For the second year in a row, a Stetson Law team won the Robert Orseck Memorial Moot Court Competition at The Florida Bar annual conference in Orlando. Team members Tyler Brown,… » Read more

The Progress Pride and Trans Pride flags will fly over Stetson Law’s Gulfport campus through June 30. Ahead of a busy weekend full of Pride festivities in St. Petersburg, Stetson’s chapter of Lambda Legal Society, a student organization for LGBTQ+ students, raised two Progress Pride flags and two Trans Pride flags on a poles in the Sebring Horseshoe Courtyard. The event took place Friday afternoon… » Read more

The 2022 Stetson Lawyers Alumni Association award winners pose with Dean Michèle Alexandre at the June 23 awards reception in Orlando. Amid the buzz of the Florida Bar Association’s annual convention in Orlando, the Stetson Lawyers Alumni Association (SLAA) honored five Stetson Law community members with prestigious awards recognizing their selfless service. Given out during a reception Thursday, June 23, the awards highlighted the diverse… » Read more

The American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles’ Conference of Parties met in Panama in June. Stepping up its efforts to help protect vulnerable sea turtle populations in the Western Hemisphere, Stetson Law’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy officially entered into an agreement with the Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles (IAC) on June 17. The agreement,… » Read more

The 2022 edition of EATS was full of compelling discussions among passionate advocacy educators. In-person for the first time since 2019, Stetson Law welcomed professionals from around the country who specialize in advocacy education to the annual Educating Advocacy Teachers (EATS) Conference on its beautiful Gulfport campus. Taking place from June 13-15, the event offered eye-opening insights into the state of trial advocacy education in… » Read more

Lei-Lani Rogers, president of Stetson Law’s Lambda Legal Society (left), and Hunter Wolf, the group’s vice president With the spring semester having drawn to a close, it may be quiet around campus, but Lambda Legal Society, Stetson Law’s LGBTQ+ student organization, is busy sharing its message with the community. The group, which became a National LGBTQ+ Bar Association affiliate in 2021, will have a presence… » Read more

The Christian Science Monitor quoted Law Professor Luz Nagle in a March 4, 2022 story titled “A door of hope has opened’: A fresh start for justice in Honduras?” Stetson Law Professor Luz Nagle An excerpt: “Extradition to the U.S. from Latin America was long justified by weak justice systems that couldn’t handle trials of high-profile politicians or kingpins, says Luz Estella Nagle, a law… » Read more

Stetson officials mark the start of construction of the Stetson Law Advocacy Institute. It’s official: Stetson University College of Law is on its way to having a state-of-the-art advocacy facility. Once it opens, it will comprise 16,000 square feet of beautifully renovated space. It will feature two new courtrooms, four new practice courtrooms, office and meeting space, a trophy and awards lobby, a new elevator,… » Read more

Stetson Law Professor Roberta Flowers On the heels of her one-year term as vice president of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA), Stetson Law Professor Roberta Flowers has taken the reins as the board’s president. Her new role became official Saturday, May 14 at the 2022 NAELA Annual Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 1987, the organization offers resources to attorneys, professional organizations… » Read more