Chris Pate, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Canady and Chris LawsonImage courtesy of The Florida Bar  Stetson University College of Law’s moot court team argued in the final round of the 2019 Robert Orseck Memorial Moot Court Competition before the justices of the Florida Supreme Court, and the justices awarded law student Chris Pate with the Best Oralist in the Final Round. This year’s competition… » Read more

On June 13th, the Stetson University community welcomed a piece of history to the Gulfport campus. Dean Kristen Adams of the College of Law and Dean Timothy Peter of the School of Music held a special dedication to celebrate the donation of a piano previously owned and played by Liberace himself. Marco A. Jimenez, son of Stetson Law professor Marco J. Jimenez, capped off the… » Read more

Stetson Law graduate Jonathan Glover wins second place in the 11th Annual American Bankruptcy Institute’s Law Student Writing Competition. Glover’s article “The Bankruptcy Code’s Disservice to Those Who Served” is available on the American Bankruptcy Institute website. The article will also be published in the American Bankruptcy Institute Journal this summer.… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law announces the appointment of Roberta Kemp Flowers, J.D., professor of law, as the interim director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy. She begins her new role on June 1. Flowers will be stepping down from her role as the director of the Center for Excellence in Elder Law to temporarily take the helm as the interim director of the… » Read more

Michael Davids J.D. ’19 has published a scholarly legal article, written originally for a Stetson seminar, in the Seattle Journal of Environmental Law. It is called To Bee or Not to Bee and addresses threats to useful honeybees and suggestions for legal reform.  … » Read more

Second-year student Christopher Hedges spent his spring semester working at the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) for the Middle District of Florida. Professor Beane’s Federal Litigation Externship class places students in the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the U.S. Department of Justice, and the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs in order to gain real-world experience in federal litigation. Hedges is a second-career law student with a background… » Read more

Stetson’s Gulfport, Florida, campus. Stetson University College of Law’s annual Legal Tech CLE on June 14 is a full-day program for lawyers and legal practitioners on using technology in the legal practice. The program begins with registration at 8:30 a.m. at 1401 61st S. in Gulfport. Topics include the process of integrating software when starting a firm; improving the bottom line; getting and keeping clients;… » Read more

Stetson’s Gulfport campus. Stetson University College of Law has recently received a grant to support its efforts to protect aquatic resources through its Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy. The Joy McCann Foundation has awarded Stetson Law’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy a $150,000 grant for a project to ensure effective long-term protection of aquatic restoration efforts in Florida and across the country. Under… » Read more

Michèle Alexandre. Michèle Alexandre, the next dean of Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Florida, was welcomed on the floor of the senate in Tallahassee on May 1 as Stetson Law’s first African-American dean. As Florida’s first law school, Stetson has been instrumental in training lawyers and judges throughout the state for more than a century. (L-R): Senator Darryl Rouson, Dean Alexandre and Senator Jeff… » Read more

(L-R): Professor Stephanie Vaughan, Jason Stearns, Kyle McCabe, Clare McQueen, Ryan Dwyer and Matthew Ceriale. Stetson University College of Law’s Willem C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot team competed April 13-18 in Vienna, Austria, with 372 teams from 80 countries to finish in the elite top eight of law schools that competed from across the planet. Law alumnus Jason Stearns J.D. ’08 and Professor Stephanie… » Read more

A team from Bangalore won the International Environmental Moot Court Competition (with Interim Dean Kristen Adams far right). Photo by Sy-Woei Hao. A team from the National Law School of India University in Bangalore won the 23rd Annual Stetson International Environmental Moot Court Competition on April 13 in Gulfport.  National Law School of India University law student Bhargov Chakraborty was named Best Oralist in the… » Read more

(L-R): Emilia Soliman, Sarah Cibula and Brielle Tucker. By Brielle Tucker On March 15, three Stetson students, Emilia Soliman, Sarah Cibula, and Brielle Tucker, attended the Ms. JD 11th Annual Conference on Women in the Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The theme was “Speak Up” in honor of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s birthday, and the group celebrated by listening to women in the… » Read more