Martin Dyckman, former chief editorial writer for the St. Petersburg Times, talked to Tampa Bay area high school students on Sept. 16 at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport to celebrate Constitution Day. “Students who don’t understand history become uninformed voters,” Dyckman told the group. He urged the students to register to vote and to thoroughly research issues. “Use your minds. Think. Let’s keep… » Read more

Story by Valeria Obi Professor George Belnavis visited Stetson Law this fall from the Norman Manley School of Law in Kingston, Jamaica, to teach a course Sept. 6-16 on Criminal Law in the Caribbean. It was the professor’s first time teaching in the U.S. The American and Caribbean Law Initiative, of which Stetson is a member, brought Professor Belnavis to Gulfport to teach the two-week… » Read more

On Sept. 15, Stetson Law student Paul Sarlo presented his paper on how the State of Florida might revitalize its outpatient treatment law to care for the severely mentally ill among its homeless population while saving millions in mental healthcare expenses. In 1999, a tragedy in New York turned the spotlight on the issue of untreated mental illness when a journalist named Kendra Webdale was… » Read more

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 2012 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. Listed consistently as one of the South’s leading universities… » Read more

Military service changes the lives of many, including the soldiers who are today veterans. Many continue to serve justice in several ways. “Veterans took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same,” said Charles Rose, the director of the Center for Excellence in Advocacy at… » Read more

When the new statue honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was unveiled on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 22, a crowd of hundreds swarmed the statue. It is the first time a memorial has been erected on the Mall to someone who is not a U.S. president. Dr. King has special meaning for Stetson Law students Traci Blake, Maria Bogomaz and Howard… » Read more

The National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law at Stetson has developed an online class for the National Institute of Justice on “Law 101: A Legal Guide for the Forensic Expert.” The free online class launched in August. “Anyone serving as an expert witness will benefit from learning the legal procedures, expectations, and principles presented in this course,” said Susan Zucker, Ph.D., Director of… » Read more

Forbes Magazine has again included Stetson University on its annual list of “America’s Best Colleges,” putting Stetson in the top 20 percent of all undergraduate institutions in the United States.  The rankings of 650 schools are exclusively prepared for Forbes by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP), a Washington, D.C., think tank. To see the information online about Stetson University, go to http://www.forbes.com/colleges/stetson-university/.… » Read more

  Stetson University President Wendy B. Libby has been selected one of Volusia/Flagler Business Report’s 2011 “Influential Women in Business.”   This is the sixth year the weekly business report has honored the area’s most outstanding women in business. Women business owners and executives were nominated by readers and staff of the publication, which is affiliated with the Daytona Beach News-Journal. Selections were made by… » Read more

Stetson University completed its first six-week Pre-Law Institute on July 15, educating undergraduate college students for law school and a career in the legal field. Students enrolled in the unique program spent four weeks taking a critical thinking course on Stetson’s DeLand, Fla., campus, and two weeks at the Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport in an immersion program designed to introduce them to… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) are launching the NACDL White Collar Criminal Defense College at Stetson, the first program of its kind. The first session of this groundbreaking training for criminal defense lawyers is slated for early 2012. Practitioners in the field of white collar criminal defense will gain key advocacy skills and learn substantive white… » Read more

  This summer, the first female lord advocate of Scotland lectured at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport, Fla.   Scotland’s former lord advocate, Elish Angiolini, co-taught a summer course with Stetson Law professor and Center for Excellence in Advocacy Director Charles Rose on Comparative Criminal Justice Systems: Scottish, Civil, and Common Law.   Angiolini talked with students about the history of Scottish law,… » Read more