French lawyer and international animal law expert Sabine Brels visited professors Paul Boudreaux and Royal Gardner’s seminar class on natural resources law on Sept. 26 to share her expertise in the field with students. “The legal status of animals is very controversial,” Brels told the class. Brels spoke about the various approaches of animal protection in the law. She explained differing modern views on the… » Read more

» Watch entire video (1hr:26min) of Peter Edelman’s lecture Stetson University College of Law hosted a public Social Justice Lecture Series discussion on Oct. 17 with former Robert F. Kennedy adviser Peter Edelman about ending poverty in the U.S. Edelman spoke at 7 p.m. on Stetson’s Gulfport campus. Author and Georgetown University Law Center Professor Peter Edelman presented “So Rich, So Poor: Why It’s So… » Read more

A busload of Stetson Law students headed to the DeLand campus on Saturday, Sept. 21, for Stetson University’s second football game of the season. Stetson Law Dean Christopher Pietruszkiewicz joined the Stetson Law students and alumni at the Hatters game. More than 6,000 fans filled the Spec Martin Memorial Stadium to watch the Hatters play Birmingham- Southern College. Stetson played Warner University for their first… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s bar passage is number one in the state, according to the Supreme Court of Florida’s exam scores and statistics, with 89.3 percent of Stetson graduates passing the Florida bar exam in July. Among all first-time test-takers in Florida, 77.2 percent of candidates passed the July bar exam. “Stetson graduates are prepared for the legal profession, and their performance on the… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law Dean Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz has recently been appointed to five committees focused on legal education, professionalism and public safety at the national, state and regional levels. Dean Pietruszkiewicz was appointed to the Data Policy & Collection Committee of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the Florida Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism, the legal education committee… » Read more

National Wildlife Federation leader John Kostyack ’86 discussed “Conservation in an Era of Intensifying Storms and Floods” at noon on Sept. 26 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. John Kostyack is vice president of Wildlife Conservation at the National Wildlife Federation and a Stetson Law alumnus. He addressed a crowd of students, alumni, faculty and members of the public. “You guys are blessed… » Read more

» View Photo Gallery Stetson University College of Law and the Pinellas Education Foundation opened the doors to a “Constitution Hall” for Tampa Bay area middle school students at the Gus A. Stavros Institute’s Finance Park in Largo on Sept. 17. Distinguished members of the judiciary, alumni and educational leaders gathered for the ribbon-cutting of Constitution Hall. A representative of Congressman C.W. Bill Young’s office… » Read more

A crowd of 120 Tampa Bay area high school students gathered in the Great Hall on Stetson University College of Law’s Gulfport campus on Sept. 17 to learn about Constitution Day during a special James Otis Lecture Series presentation. High school and middle school students in Tampa also attended via webcast. The presentation, coordinated by the Tampa Bay Chapter of the American Board of Trial… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law has recently launched a new Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication. Stetson’s Institute will serve as a nexus of research, teaching and service to improve the quality of legal communication, particularly legal writing, among law students, lawyers, members of the judiciary and other professionals. “The creation of the Institute for the Advancement of Legal Communication, combined with the Center… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law students Kayla Cash, Paul Crochet and Tyler Egbert won the 2013 E. Earle Zehmer National Workers’ Compensation Moot Court Competition on Aug. 19 in Orlando. Stetson’s moot court team, coached by Associate Dean and Professor of Law Michael Allen and alumnus Jason Stearns, argued in the final round of competition before sitting judges from Florida’s First District Court of Appeal.… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law’s Center for Excellence in Elder Law is hosting Special Needs Trusts – The National Conference, Oct. 16-18, at the Loews Don CeSar Hotel in St. Pete Beach, Fla. The Center developed the national conference for practitioners and other professionals who work with individuals who have special needs. Now in its 15th year, Stetson’s conference provides professionals who work in the… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law alumnus Alexander Zesch JD ’13 will join Shearman & Sterling’s International Arbitration team in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in October. Zesch was a member of Stetson’s Willem C. Vis International Moot Arbitration team that competed in Vienna, Austria, in 2012 and this year and won an Honorable Mention Best Oral Advocate Award. More than 1800 students from 290 universities in… » Read more