Protecting biodiversity through the law is the topic of Stetson University College of Law’s first Edward and Bonnie Foreman Biodiversity Lecture of the spring semester on Jan. 17. The lecture is free and open to the public.
WHO: Peggy Strand, an expert in federal wetlands law and environmental compliance and partner at Venable, will speak about addressing the gap between the science of biodiversity and coverage provided by the legal system.
WHEN: Strand will speak at 12 p.m.
WHERE: The lecture takes place in the Great Hall on Stetson’s Gulfport campus at 1401 61st St. S.
Higher education leader D. Parker Young, Ph.D., has been selected as the recipient of this year’s Facilitator Award, which will be presented during Stetson University’s 34th Annual National Conference on Law and Higher Education, Feb. 14-20, in Orlando, Fla.
D. Parker Young
The award recognizes educators who embody the values and principles articulated by Stetson University College of Law professors Peter Lake and Robert Bickel in their book, The Rights and Responsibilities of the Modern University. The Facilitator Model urges educators to be proactive about safety and risk-management and to develop organization environments that are reasonably safe, educationally relevant and developmentally sound.
Young is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education at the Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia. He has taught courses on law and higher education at the University of Georgia since 1968, where he has been cited for excellence as a teacher.
The National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) honored Young with the Outstanding Contribution to Literature or Research Award and named him a “Pillar of the Profession.” The Association for Student Judicial Affairs created the D. Parker Young Award in his honor to recognize an individual’s outstanding scholarly contributions in the area of higher education law and judicial affairs. The Education Law Association has given its highest award, The McGhehey Award, to Young for outstanding service to the association and for national leadership in the field of education law.
Young is past president and a member of the board of directors of the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education. He is serving his second term on the Erskine College board of trustees and has served on the board of the American Association of University Administrators and Pfeiffer University.
The author of numerous books, including The Yearbook of Higher Education Law, Young is a contributing and consulting editor for publications including The College Student and the Courts and The College Administrator and the Courts.
Stetson’s weeklong National Conference on Law and Higher Education will include sessions with national legal and higher education experts about helping students to thrive in college, achieving drug free schools, compliance with Title IX and college safety.
Stetson University College of Law Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law Bruce Jacob has recently been named a Power 100 Advocate by the media company On Being a Black Lawyer for his commitment to diversity in the legal profession. On Being a Black Lawyer will publish the second annual edition of “The Power 100” on Feb. 1, 2013, in honor of Black History Month.
Bruce Jacob, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law at Stetson University
Honorees, including the nation’s most influential black attorneys working in government, academics, the public and private sectors, as well as non-black attorneys who have championed diversity, will be recognized at an evening reception at The Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 27, 2013.
Jacob began his career in 1960 as a Florida assistant attorney general. As a young lawyer, he represented the respondent in the historic 1963 U.S. Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Supreme Court ruled that state courts are required to provide defendants unable to afford attorneys with counsel in criminal cases. Jacob was one of the first attorneys in Florida to volunteer to work as a public defender after the decision in Gideon.
After joining the Emory University School of Law faculty, Jacob established the Legal Assistance for Inmates Program at the Atlanta Penitentiary. He was appointed by the Supreme Court as counsel for petitioner in the 1969 case, Kaufman v. United States. While at Harvard Law School, Jacob helped establish the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project and supervised law students defending criminal cases and representing indigents in civil matters in the Community Legal Assistance Office in Cambridge, Mass.
Jacob is an author and co-author of articles on criminal law and procedure, civil rights and civil liberties, and the administrative law of corrections. He has served as professor and director of Clinical Programs at The Ohio State University College of Law, as dean and professor of the Mercer University School of Law and as vice president of Stetson University and dean of Stetson University College of Law from 1981-94. Jacob was inducted into the Stetson Law Hall of Fame in 2004.
Since beginning his teaching career in 1965, Jacob has taught 20 different law school courses. He presently teaches courses on constitutional law, administrative law, criminal law and criminal procedure at Stetson University College of Law. Jacob is a member of the National Right to Counsel Committee that prepared the 2009 report, “Justice Denied: America’s Continuing Neglect of our Constitutional Right to Counsel.” He is actively working on the clemency petition for Jerome Davis, a man sentenced to life in prison for a nonviolent offense, and is representing Florida inmate Dwight Roberts in his appeal before the Florida Supreme Court.
On Being a Black Lawyer, owned by Lawyers of Color Inc., has been recognized by the American Bar Association, National Black Law Students Association and National Association of Black Journalists. Founded in 2008 as a news and resource center, the company has grown into a social media firm providing research, career development and brand marketing.
Stetson University College of Law is hosting a part-time law school information session on March 12 on the Gulfport campus, 1401 61st St. S., for prospective law students who wish to learn more about the admissions process. Stetson enrolls new students annually in the fall. Prospective full-time law students are also welcome to attend.
The program begins at 6:30 p.m. and registration begins at 6 p.m.
The weeklong program, led by national legal and higher education experts, will include sessions about helping students thrive in college, achieving drug free schools, compliance with Title IX and college safety.
The opening plenary session this year discusses “The Fate of Race Conscious Admissions: Implications of Fisher v. University of Texas.” The U.S. Supreme Court has heard oral arguments in the Fisher case and a decision is expected early this spring.
The plenary features Jonathan Alger, president of James Madison University, who played a key role in the University of Michigan’s efforts in landmark cases Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger regarding affirmative action in admissions; Ada Meloy, general counsel for the American Council on Education; Richard Kahlenberg, senior fellow at the Century Foundation; and professors Fred Bonner and Michele Alexandre, who have written extensively on issues of race, gender and multiculturalism.
This year’s William A. Kaplin Award will be presented to Kahlenberg, who spearheaded the economic integration movement in K-12 schooling and class-based affirmative action in higher education admissions. Kahlenberg is frequently called upon for his expertise on teachers’ unions, private school vouchers, charter schools, turnaround school efforts, labor organizing and inequality in higher education. He is a nonresident senior fellow at Education Sector and serves on the advisory board of the Pell Institute, the Albert Shanker Institute and the Research Advisory Panel of the National Coalition on School Diversity.
Professor William A. Kaplin is the namesake of the award, which recognizes scholars who have published works on education law that embrace the intersection of law and policy.
Stetson University College of Law student Jeffrey Harvey, who helped establish a scholarship to help veterans pay for law school, has received a prestigious Douglas B. Henderson Leadership Scholarship from the Federal Circuit Bar Association.
Jeffrey Harvey, third from the right, received his Douglas B. Henderson Leadership Scholarship at the Federal Circuit Bar Association ceremony in Washington, D.C.
Only one scholarship is awarded each year, in honor of Douglas B. Henderson, founding president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association. Harvey was awarded $10,000 and a membership in the Federal Circuit Bar Association in recognition of his outstanding leadership skills and academic excellence. He accepted the scholarship in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16.
Harvey, who spearheaded the Frederick B. Karl Scholarship for veterans, founded the Student Veterans Organization at Stetson Law. As a student, Harvey provided pro bono services to members of the military and veterans. He is a member of the Student Leadership Development Committee, a Yellow Ribbon Scholarship and Diversity Scholarship recipient at Stetson.
Currently stationed with the Florida Army National Guard in Pinellas Park, Fla., Harvey is a graduate of the Army Ranger School and a four-time combat veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq and spent 10 years on active duty with the U.S. Army. While in Iraq, Harvey collaborated with the Vanderbilt School of Business to stimulate small business growth in Iraq and managed hundreds of Iraqi reconstruction projects. He has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal and a Valorous Unit Award. Between deployments, Harvey earned a master’s degree in human development and leadership from Murray State University.
Harvey will complete his J.D. at Stetson Law this December.
He and his wife Katie had their first child, Henry, on June 14.
The White Collar Crime Prof Blog, edited by Ellen S. Podgor, the Gary R. Trombley Family White-Collar Crime Research Professor at Stetson University College of Law, has again ranked in the top 35 blogs of all law professor edited blogs in the country, including both page views and visits.
Since its inception, the blog focusing on important white collar crime cases has had 2,331,854 visits. White Collar Crime Prof Blog entries have been quoted in media including the Wall Street Journal.
A former deputy prosecutor and criminal defense attorney, Podgor teaches in the areas of white collar crime, criminal law and international criminal law. She is the co-author of numerous books including White Collar Crime in a Nutshell, Understanding International Criminal Law, and Mastering Criminal Law, and she has authored more than 50 law review articles and essays in the areas of computer crime, international criminal law, lawyer’s ethics, criminal discovery, prosecutorial discretion, corporate criminality and other white collar crime topics. She helped create the NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson, now in its second year.
The National Jurist magazine recently announced that Stetson Law Dean Emeritus and Distinguished University Professor Lizabeth Moody has been named among their “25 Most Influential People in Legal Education.”
The National Jurist requested nominations from every law school in the country, receiving more than 85. Editors narrowed the list to 50 and then asked 350 people in legal education, including all law school deans, to rate each nominee based on how much they influenced them in the past year.
The 25 finalists will be included in the January issue of the National Jurist.
Moody was Stetson Law’s vice president and dean from 1994-1999, opening the state-of-the art Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library and laying the foundation for the college’s part-time law and international programs. She was honored by the Baltic state of Estonia’s Higher Education Accreditation Centre in March 2000 for her efforts in legal higher education.
Read more about Moody’s contributions to legal education and the legal profession by visiting Stetson Law News.
Stetson University College of Law is accepting nominations for the prestigious William Reece Smith Jr. Public Service Award, which recognizes individuals who have provided outstanding service to the legal profession and community. This year, the award will be presented at the Annual Inns of Court Banquet and William Reece Smith Jr. Distinguished Lecture on Feb. 13, 2013.
William Reece Smith Jr., past president of the International, American, and Florida Bar Associations, is the namesake of the award and its first recipient. Stetson established the William Reece Smith Jr. Award in 1990 to honor outstanding contributions to public service, the justice system and the community.
Previous winners include John P. Cunningham, John R. Blue, Denis deVlaming, Emeline C. Acton, Gregory K. Showers and Edwin Boyer.
Nominations must be received by close of business on Friday, Dec. 21. Nomination forms may be obtained by contacting Patricia Toups at [email protected].
Completed nominations may be emailed to [email protected] or mailed to Stetson University College of Law, Attention: Patricia Toups, 1401 61st St. S., Gulfport, Fla., 33707.
For additional information, please contact Stetson Law’s Office of College Relations at 727-562-7818.
Stetson University College of Law professor Mark Bauer was recently inducted as a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law. Professor Bauer accepted the new fellowship during the Canadian Conference on Elder Law in Vancouver, Canada, on Nov. 16.
Professor Mark Bauer (center) accepted his fellowship in Vancouver, Canada, on Nov. 16. Photo courtesy the Canadian Centre for Elder Law.
Professor Bauer frequently addresses law schools, conferences and advocacy groups around the world on elder law, consumer protection and real property issues. He also researches, writes and speaks on antitrust and higher education law. At the conference, Bauer discussed the issues of 55-plus age-restricted housing, cross-border scams targeted at elders, and consumer protection reforms of banking law.
Distinguished Fellows of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law must be internationally known leaders in their field, have made significant contributions to the field of elder law, and provide original and substantive academic contributions in their area of expertise.
Three Stetson faculty members are Distinguished Fellows of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law. In addition to Bauer, Stetson Law professors Rebecca Morgan, who directs the Center for Elder Justice, the Borchard Distinguished Professorial Lecturer in Elder Law, are also fellows.
The Canadian Centre for Elder Law is a national Canadian organization pursuing scholarly legal research, law reform and public legal education on issues of law and aging.
Stetson’s Center for Excellence in Elder Law, established to meet the increasing need for legal education and research in the field of law and aging, educates law students, attorneys, and judges in the field of elder and special needs law and produces scholarly research and writing on issues impacting those who are older and/or have special needs.
For more information about the Center for Excellence in Elder Law at Stetson University, email [email protected] or call 727-562-7393.
In coming weeks, Stetson University College of Law is organizing a premier annual competition for students around the world and a scholarly conference in Africa highlighting sensitive international environmental issues.
Stetson Law is organizing the International Environmental Moot Court Competition, now in its 17th year, with rounds in Africa, Australia, Brazil, India, Ireland, Korea and the U.S. The competition provides students around the world with an opportunity to tackle environmental issues impacting the planet.
This year, students from China, Nepal, the Philippines, South Korea, and Thailand have been invited to compete for the chance to advance to the international finals of the competition, held at Stetson Law in Tampa Bay, Fla., in March of 2013. Soongsil University’s College of Law in Seoul, South Korea, is hosting the first East Asian Rounds of Stetson’s International Environmental Moot Court Competition on Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Students will prepare and present arguments that address peatland fires that create transboundary air pollution and threaten the existence of an endangered orangutan.
Stetson is spearheading the 14th International Wildlife Law Conference with the University of Buea in Cameroon, Africa, on Dec. 6-7. The conference brings together wildlife law experts from the governmental, NGO and academic fields to discuss the role of international agreements in conserving Africa’s wild fauna and flora. Stetson, the University of Buea, and the International Environmental Law Committee, American Branch of the International Law Association are co-sponsoring this year’s conference.
The West Africa Regional Round of Stetson’s International Environmental Moot Court Competition takes place Dec. 6-7 at the University of Buea, Cameroon, in conjunction with the conference.
Stetson’s Institute for Biodiversity Law and Policy regularly hosts international conferences and speakers, as well as the finals of the annual International Environmental Moot Court Competition, with preliminary competitions around the globe. Stetson has sponsored the International Wildlife Law Conference since 2007.
A panel of experts presented information about judicial clerkships.
Stetson Law recently hosted a panel of experts discussing the benefits of judicial clerkships.
The noontime program for students drew a crowd on Nov. 15 in the Great Hall.
Professor Catherine Cameron moderated the panel, which included Professor Jason Bent and alumni attorneys Melissa Madsen ’08, Jennifer McPheeters ’09, Daniel Smith ’08 and Katherine Wachter ’10, who talked about their own formative experiences with clerkships.
