Stetson University’s strong academic quality has earned it a ranking of third place among the South’s top regional universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2013 edition of “Best Colleges.” Stetson is also listed as one of the South’s “Great Schools, Great Prices,” based on academic quality and the average net cost after need-based financial aid, and one of the South’s “A-Plus Schools for B… » Read more

Professor Robert Bickel presented an inscribed copy of University of Minnesota professor Kathryn Sikkink’s book, The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions Changed World Politics, to Stetson Law professor Dorothea Beane in the Dolly & Homer Hand Law Library on Sept. 6. The new book by Sikkink is the winner of the 2012 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Professor Sikkink inscribed the copy of her… » Read more

The Edward and Bonnie Foreman Biodiversity Lecture Series at Stetson presented Craig Pittman on “The Scent of Scandal: How an International Treaty Led to Armed Federal Officers Raiding a Greenhouse for Contraband Flowers” on Sept. 6. Pittman, Tampa Bay Times reporter and author of books including The Scent of Scandal: Greed, Betrayal, and the World’s Most Beautiful Orchid, presented a talk to students about a… » Read more

Story by third-year student Valeria Obi and Brandi Palmer For most people, the Caribbean is a tropical paradise, a getaway destination where reef fish dart among sunken pirate gold in a boundless turquoise sea. For the people who live and work for equality and human rights in the Caribbean, a different picture emerges, one focused on the struggle for social justice. Hundreds of years of… » Read more

Deputy Consul General of Argentina Gustavo Martínez Pandiani spoke with Stetson Law students on Sept. 4 about “Global Citizenship and Public Diplomacy.” Martínez Pandiani explained his view that the rule of law and democratic participation provide the foundation of global citizenship. He explored how international diplomacy has evolved from the traditional secret diplomacy of the 18th century, to the public diplomacy of the 20th century,… » Read more

Stetson University’s Tampa Law Center was the site of a Tampa town hall meeting on Aug. 15 to discuss the impact of the Republican National Convention on residents and businesses. Tampa is hosting the 2012 Republican National Convention on Aug. 27-30. Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn told residents that the convention will provide Tampa with positive international exposure and business opportunities but it will also challenge… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law will re-open on Tuesday, Aug. 28, with classes and other campus activities to resume  as planned.    … » Read more

The June 2012 Special Commemorative Edition of Champion magazine includes an interview with and article by Stetson Law professor Bruce Jacob, who presented the historic Gideon v. Wainwright case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Read the article, “Remembering Gideon’s Lawyers,” by Bruce R. Jacob. The text of the interview with Jacob follows, with special permission from the NACDL. A Conversation With Bruce R. Jacob W… » Read more

Dean Christopher Pietruszkiewicz greeted Stetson University College of Law students this morning in Gulfport with a cup of coffee as they returned to campus for the first week of fall classes. Students enjoyed coffee with the dean as they headed to class. Dean Pietruszkiewicz joined Stetson Law in June after serving as vice chancellor for business and financial affairs and as the J.Y. Sanders Professor… » Read more

Stetson University College of  Law is offering a Social Justice Advocacy Certificate of Concentration program for students. The concentration program is intended to prepare students to deal directly with significant social justice issues in civil or criminal law. The Social Justice Advocacy Certificate of Concentration is a selective program, which admits a limited number of students based upon their academic and experiential background, interviews with… » Read more

Story by Valeria Obi Juan M. Zarama’12, who recently graduated with distinction from Stetson’s International Law LL.M. program, has been selected to work with the prestigious International Bar Association Legal Internship Programme in Human Rights in London in the fall. Zarama said he has always had a passion for international human rights. “My interest in international human rights came from my professional and academic experience… » Read more

Alumni Wil H. Florin JD ’80 and Thomas D. Roebig Jr. JD ’86 have long been supporters of civil rights education and their mentor, Stetson University College of Law Professor Robert Bickel. Since 2006, the Tampa Bay-based Florin Roebig law firm has helped fund a unique course on Constitutional Law and the Civil Rights Movement at Stetson Law. The experiential course provides students with an… » Read more