Professor Eddie Ohlbaum, director of Temple Law School’s Trial Advocacy and Clinical Education program, was awarded the 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Advocacy on May 26 at the “Educating Advocates: Teaching Advocacy Skills” conference at Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport. Professor Ohlbaum  is the author of several books, and consults and lectures on evidence, litigation strategy, advocacy, and ethics to judicial… » Read more

Stetson University College of Law Vice President and Dean Darby Dickerson announced plans to leave Stetson in early July to join Texas Tech University School of Law as Dean and will hold the W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship. Dickerson has been dean of Stetson Law since February 2004, after serving as interim dean in 2003 following the death of Dean Gary Vause. “Darby Dickerson has… » Read more

For the past 14 years, law students at Stetson University College of Law have had an opportunity to sharpen their advocacy skills before practicing judges and attorneys at the Carlton Fields First-Year Appellate Advocacy Competition, held this year on April 16. This year, Stetson students Amar Agha and Max Holzbaur won first place in the competition; students Erin Okuno and Julia Richmond won second place;… » Read more

In August, just four months after the oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, Stetson Law gathered a roundtable of legal experts on the Gulfport, Fla., campus to discuss how the law had responded to similar disasters in the past, what to expect this time, and what legal experts should be talking about to prevent this type of disaster from happening again in the future.

Stetson Law students won a series of awards at the Willem C. Vis (East) International Commercial Arbitration Moot.

Former Florida Governor Charlie Crist spoke to more than 200 Stetson Law students on Tuesday, April 12, in his new role as Distinguished Professorial Lecturer at Stetson University.

Law students visiting Tampa Bay area this summer can take advantage of daytime, evening, weekend and condensed courses.

A.J. Nicholson, a member of the Jamaican Senate, is serving as a Distinguished International Fellow at Stetson Law.

Stetson University in Central Florida is now accepting applications for its new Stetson University Summer Pre-Law Institute, a rigorous, six-week course in which undergraduate college students will be chosen to prepare for law school and a career in the legal field.

Stetson Law hosted jurists and law professors from St. Petersburg, Russia, as part of the Open World Program.

Laura Cheek recently joined Stetson University College of Law in Gulfport as Communications Coordinator.

Yale Professor Jules Coleman and retired Delaware Supreme Court Justice Andrew G.T. Moore II will address Stetson Law’s graduating class.